Wherever you are right now, you probably don’t have to be told that the ongoing energy crisis is simply dire. Not only are petrol, diesel and home heating oil costs soaring to unsustainable levels, but one secret government memo says the state is considering gas and electricity rationing. The problem is that serious. Putin’s War: […]
Pharmacies across Europe have run out of iodine tablets as people panic-buy in anticipation of a potential nuclear conflict. The development comes as fears grow that the conflict in Ukraine could escalate to a hot war between nuclear-armed Russia and NATO. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the heavy Western sanctions leveled against his […]
The fact is that once again, the Irish Government has made a fairly big and emotional commitment to people without considering, even for a moment, the practicality of their plan.
With the digitalisation and globalisation of the world, we now have countless companies who have truly global power. Power which, we have just discovered, they are willing and able to deploy for explicitly political goals.
No ‘balanced regional development’
Let cooler heads reign
No matter what your perspective is on the Russia-Ukraine invasion politically, one thing is inarguable: the human cost of this conflict is enormous. This is clearly one of the most cut and dry cases of a refugee crisis we have seen in Europe in years. While the legitimacy of many alleged asylum claims to Europe […]
If this happened to an Irish embassy in, say, Tel Aviv, how would Ireland react? With outrage, one might suspect.
In 2020, shortly before the US election, then-president Donald Trump said that if Joe Biden was elected, fuel prices would “skyrocket.” The comments were made during a campaign rally on November 3rd, 2020, with Trump bragging about low fuel prices under his administration. “We have more oil than anybody, OK?” he said. “It’s an incredible […]
President Zelensky, the toast of the western world, is not a perfect Democrat. But we cannot be blinded by contrarianism.
When the National Women’s Council of Ireland threw a feminist event over the weekend, with the lineup of high profile groups and individuals involved, you’d assume we were all in for a barnstormer. I mean, how could the event not draw a big crowd? The NWCI themselves say it’s been planned since March 2021 – […]
False hope