Gaelic treasure
The past ten days has seen an outpouring of shock and grief in regard to the senseless murder of a beautiful and talented young teacher, Ashling Murphy, as she went for a run in Tullamore. While her grief-stricken family sought privacy to mourn Ashling, the dominant voices in the media were largely accusatory against Irish men, […]
Met with mixed boos and cheers.
The sad thing, of course, is that this story will never, truly, be debunked.
It paints a picture, whether intentional or not, of a closed shop political class whose cultural and economic similarities overcome any superficial policy differences.
Speaking in the Dáil this week, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald decided to give it to the entire nation of Ireland with both barrels, dubbing the country’s past and present “ugly and dangerous.” “The roots of sexism and misogyny run deep,” she said. “The Ireland of religious dogma, that defined women as men’s property, […]
Neither the Minister nor her Department have been able to stand over the figures they’ve been using when discussing their planned amnesty.
German interior minister Nancy Faeser has accused Apple and Google of being “socially irresponsible” for failing to censor privacy-based messaging app Telegram from their app stores. “We remind Apple and Google of their social responsibility,” Faesar tweeted. “As long as they offer apps like #Telegram in their stores, they are also fuel the fire of […]
Relative obscurity should be the default setting for the Government’s medical advisors. We need to know that they are there in a crisis, but we also need to have the confidence to know that a crisis will pass.
Research from Eurostat has shown that Ireland had the third highest level of rent increases in the EU between 2020 and the third quarter of 2021. Rents here have jumped by almost 70% in that period, compared to an EU average growth of under 20%. Interestingly, house prices have “only” increased by close to the […]
Jozef Puska
What value, in other words, do we get from RTE? In my own case, and I sorely doubt I am alone, the answer is none.