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.
Yes, the Government could ignore NPHET, on paper. But why would they?
The Belgian government has withdrawn the right to residency from the Imam of the country’s largest mosque after dubbing him a “threat to national security.” According to Belgium’s oldest English-language newspaper, The Bulletin, Imam Mohamed Toujgani from Morocco became a figure of controversy in 2019 after a 10-year-old video surfaced of him calling for Jews […]
What we have in Ireland is a plainly political lockdown, not a scientific one.
Under President Trump, bad news for the American President was regularly amongst the top stories in Ireland. Under President Biden, who has just had one of the worst weeks in living memory for an American President, such news struggles to make it into the top twenty stories in the Irish media.
In the wake of the senseless and tragic killing of 23-year-old Offaly native Ashling Murphy, there has understandably been a viscerally emotional reaction from people the length and breadth of the country. Naturally, we all want to ensure that something this awful can never happen again, and most people (myself included) agree that new systems […]
In 1922, Ireland was torn in half by a terrible civil war that scarred our nation and its politics for a century. After winning the War of Independence, and striking a major blow for the freedom of the whole island, our victory should have been a time of celebration. Instead, it was a time of […]