Who fears to speak against the merger?
After all, what does a right to housing mean?
The alternative to a negotiated settlement of this war is not pretty.
And who supports Russia?
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Kerry is “not the right investment” for the site. The remarks were made in the Dáil last week, as energy prices continue to surge across Europe. “There is a planning application for an LNG terminal in Tarbert in north Kerry,” said Varadkar, […]
Make no mistake about it: the war in Ukraine is, quite clearly, awful, and the ordinary citizens of Ukraine are undoubtedly victims in it. Right now there is heated debate in the West over the origins of this mess and which geopolitical factions are to blame. Is Russia mainly responsible, or NATO? Did Zelensky provoke […]
Media platforms and social media users have been warned to watch out for footage being shared on social media which purport to be from Ukraine but are in fact old or doctored images. As the situation in Ukraine continues to escalate, news platforms rush to post visual images because they drive more traffic than anything else. That can lead […]
The west is not just imposing sanctions: It is waging a full scale hot economic war on Russia.
What we have, with surrogacy, is a legal severing of the natural ties between birth mother and child.
What is currently taking place in Ukraine is a reminder of why historian Timothy Snyder described the country as having been part of the Bloodlands. He applied it to Ukraine, but also to Belorussia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia as well as to the eastern strip of the actual Russian Socialist Republic that came under […]
EU president Ursula Von Der Leyen has said that she wants Ukraine to join the European Union, claiming that “they belong to us.” The remarks were made this week amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We have a process with Ukraine that is, for example, integrating the Ukrainian market into the Single Market. We […]
As we saw here in Ireland, predictions of mass deaths from the dreaded Covid-19 proved unfounded. Remember Prof Sam McConkey who predicted that Ireland could face between 80,000 to 120,000 deaths from the coronvirus? Though the death toll never reached a tenth of that number, McConkey is still wheeled out for comment regularly by the […]