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.
Frankly, it is not hard to imagine what the reaction would be if the roles were reversed here
Though almost all Covid restrictions have been lifted, there are still people being fined for violating them over a year ago. As reported in the Independent today, one 26 year old man has just been fined by Swords District Court. He was found guilty of travelling from Blanchardstown to Donabate beach with his girlfriend for […]
Catherine Connolly TD has hit out at politicians taking aim at Irish neutrality, saying they want Ireland to be a voice for “war and death.” The comments were made this week during Leaders’ Questions, amid the ongoing debate around Irish neutrality. “My question relates to our neutrality,” said Connolly. “APPALLED AND WORRIED” “I refer to […]
The European Parliament has voted to put economic sanctions on Poland as the country struggles to accommodate 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. Poland – one of the EU’s poorest countries – has accepted 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees in two weeks since the Russian invasion began. The number of Ukrainian refugees entering Poland rises to 1.52 million […]
Senator Sharon Keogan has railed against the government’s proposed hate speech laws, saying that they will turn Ireland into a “woke theocracy.” The comments were made this week in the Seanad during a debate on a new proposed hate speech law. Sharon Keogan on her opposition to hate speech legislation, warning that Ireland is sliding […]
You know that our country is in a bad position when we’re in the midst of a major crisis, and the people in charge think that key words mean the precise opposite of what they actually mean. This week, amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Defence Minister Simon Coveney decided to tell the Dáil […]
If there is a chance to bash the west or Israel, then her concern for the starving children of the world can be set aside, happily enough.
The problem with this idea is that unless you fix the underlying problem, a price fixing law will ultimately destroy businesses and lead to shortages
Anyone who knows anything about the Titanic disaster will be familiar with the phrase “women and children first” – also known as the Birkenhead Drill. Today we’re all quite familiar with this concept – it was, obviously, a code of conduct from the 19th century onward for maritime disasters. It was expected that, if lifeboats […]