If the world was a secondary school, and governments were its students, modern Ireland would be the insecure, sycophantic nerd who gets picked last for games, bumped into lockers, and victimised by noogies and atomic wedgies on a daily basis. Amid the ongoing energy crisis, with fuel and electricity prices surging to unsustainable levels, many […]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that a nuclear war is now “back within the realm of possibility.” The comments come as Russia has once against raised the alert of its nuclear forces amid their ongoing invasion of Ukraine. “Raising the alert of Russian nuclear forces is a bone-chilling development,” Guterres said this week. “The […]
Peat is, of course, much cheaper than gas.
Bord Gáis has announced a huge incoming price hike for electricity and gas bills in the coming month amid the ongoing energy crisis. According to the company, consumers face a 27% increase in the average electricity bill, and a 39% increase in the average gas bill from April 15th. This will represent an increase of […]
The joys of the Census
Last week, you may have heard that some Big Tech sites are explicitly allowing users to not only call for the deaths of Russian troops and politicians, but to praise actual violent neo-nazis as long as they’re fighting against Russia. Bear in mind: you can totally oppose Putin, his invasion, and the actions of Russia, […]
John McGuirk wrote on the 11th March of the limitless cynicism of Clare Daly on the Ukraine, where she criticizes ‘the West’s’ obsession with the Ukraine crisis. He notes that she has form in deflecting criticism from Russia and taking a selective approach to the different western obsessions – for example, not criticising similar asymmetric […]
Nor, for the record, has Government even made such a proposal.
In the case of the homeless, let’s also be honest: Politicians simply do not have sustained pressure from the public to solve the problem.
French Border Police, Spanish National police and Europol have cooperated to bust a criminal enterprise engaged in forging and distributing fake IDs and EU travel documents. After raiding houses across France and Spain, 17 individuals were arrested – three in France and 14 in Spain. Cash, fake IDs and counterfeiting equipment was seized during the […]
In the past couple of years, do you ever get the feeling that Ireland has just lurched from one blinding panic to another like a cat on a hot tin roof? If so, you definitely aren’t imagining it. Don’t get me wrong: basically every country on earth freaked out about Covid and was hurt by […]
That’s not western propaganda – it’s just what is obvious to anybody with a brain.