Famed Tyrone manager and GAA sporting legend, Mickey Harte, has retired from the helm of the county’s senior football team after 18 years as manager and 30 years involvement with the Red Hand. Mr Harte is revered for steering the Tyrone team to All-Ireland glory but also widely admired for his courage in the face […]
A leading economist has taken issue with the claim that the Level 5 lockdown has driven a fall in Covid positive tests – and he has asserted that the additional measures cost Ireland 100,000 jobs when “level 3 was working.” Dan O’Brien is chief economist at the Institute of International and European Affairs, and a lecturer […]
In the midst of an ongoing campaign by President Donald Trump to declare that the recent American election was rigged against him, he appears to have found an unusual ally: Joe Biden’s nominee for Chief of Staff. Ronald Klain, who has been a longtime aide of Biden, is the first declared staffer appointed by the […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it will be “a different Christmas” in Ireland this year, but not to expect any visits from the Gardaí over the festive period.
Mary Lou McDonald has said it is “very worrying” that lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland are to be lifted next Friday after an overnight vote in Stormont.
The new Hate Crime Bill, introduced by Senators Lisa Chambers, Fiona O’Loughlin, and Robbie Gallagher last week is a remarkably poor piece of legislation. You can read it all here. The bill creates a new offence of “aggravated hate crime”. What it essentially tries to do is to tack motive onto existing crimes as an […]
Fascinating: Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020 Critics of the Covid lockdown have been making the point for some weeks now […]
Telecommunications company Eir has applied to Kerry County Council to erect a telecoms mast near to a holy well in the north of Kerry, Radio Kerry has reported. The site, known as Ladywell, Ballyheigue, has been described as an “appalling” choice of location, as locals say Our Lady’s Well and Grotto has been a place […]
The survey, by the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants’ Association, found that almost nine of out ten of its members responded to the question on the legalisation of Assisted Suicide, with every one of those who did opposing the proposal.
Trinity Professor Luke O’Neill has said that although not all citizens will be forced to accept a Covid-19 vaccine, international travel might only be allowed for those who have been vaccinated.
The television licence, as regular readers will know, goes almost in its entirety to RTE, with a small amount set aside for TG4 and Irish language programming. It’s also an absolute abomination. And it seems that a lot of Irish people have come to the same conclusion: THE “BROKEN” TV licence system is costing about […]
Let’s face it: In one, very limited respect, this isn’t the worst idea in the world. January is everyone’s least favourite month, right? Maybe if we move Christmas, we can retain all the festive cheer of December, but keep the mince pies and mulled wine and Mariah Carey singing inappropriate lines about Santa Claus until […]