Lord Patten, the last government of Hong Kong, has released an open letter calling on China to move back from its plans to unilaterally introduce national security legislation in Hong Kong. The legislation would give the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] wide-ranging powers to crack down on “treason, secession, sedition, and subversion! whilst also allowing the […]
In most other western countries, the release of this HSE memo by former Simon Harris appointee Dr. Marcus De Brun would be leading the news everywhere. Not in Ireland, though, where the top story everywhere is about schools re-opening in September, which is almost four months away. And poor Dr. De Brun’s tweet of the […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, has said that after 10 years of Fine Gael government the historical Moore Street battle site where the final battles of the 1916 Rising took place is shrouded in grime and dereliction. “The most important battle field site of the republic is now a place where people urinate and defecate and traders are assaulted,” […]
A major survey has shown that 1 in 3 Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression – a huge shift upwards since the coronavirus pandemic began. The San Francisco Gate reports that data from the Census Bureau showed 24% of respondents showed “clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30% showed symptoms […]
The largest representative student organisation in Ireland, the Union of Students Ireland, has re-elected Lorna Fitzpatrick as president. Fitzpatrick, 26, was elected yesterday with 193 votes after running unopposed for the position. Her re-election comes mere months after the Burkean’s “Antifa Project” exposé, where student journalists posed as members of a radical Left group, Irish […]
It’s one thing, you know, for politicians to lie to you and me. We’re used to it. We don’t expect any better. We’re so used to it that we can actually translate them automatically. For example, “well Miriam, I’m glad you asked me that” means “I am now going to answer a totally different question”. […]
Here’s the Chinese Embassy in Ireland, reporting on today’s events in China, where the Government is proceding with its efforts to crush democracy in Hong Kong: “China’s parliament has overwhelmingly approved directly imposing national security legislation on Hong Kong to tackle secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference in the city. The National People’s Congress voted […]
A new campaign is seeking to make Irish women aware that a medical abortion can be reversed and the life of their baby saved. The Second Chance awareness campaign from the Life Institute explains how the effects of the abortion pill can be safely reversed for mother and baby. “Abortion pill reversal offers women a choice […]
YouTube has been accused of putting in place an algorithm which removed comments containing Chinese phrases historically used by those critical of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP]. A video of comments containing the slang being removed from YouTube was uploaded by Jennifer Zeng, a Chinese human rights activist and author, on May 13th. The video shows comments containing […]
A stunning report from Pat Leahy in the Irish Times this morning: “The future of a proposed ban on the importation of Israeli goods produced in Palestinian territories has emerged as a sticking point in the talks on government formation. The Occupied Territories Bill 2018, proposed by Independent Senator Frances Black and supported by Fianna […]
Brazilians are rushing to congratulate Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her democratic reelection following the leak of a letter, sent by the Chinese Embassy in Brazil to the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, asking that “necessary preventive measures” are taken to ensure that Brazilian lawmakers did not celebrate, or even acknowledge, the President’s inauguration ceremony. The document was leaked by Paulo Eduardo […]
You may remember, last week, that the Chinese Embassy in Ireland took out a full page advert in the Irish Independent on the issue of the Coronavirus, to tell us all how splendid China is, and how magnificent their response to the Coronavirus has been. A member of the public made contact with the Standards […]