Newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin has had her twitter account, and all 125,000 historic tweets on it, deleted this afternoon, following a report by this website that she had sent a series of controversial and anti-semitic tweets in the years prior to her election. Gript’s Gary Kavanagh reported this morning that Deputy Cronin […]
Dubai was host to the world’s first ever fully autonomous human flight with vertical takeoff, a feat sponsored by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, the Crown Prince of the city.
An Irish mother of two has shared her story of spending sixteen hours on a hard chair in Beaumont hospital while suffering the after effects of treatment for a serious infection that left her unable to breathe. Sarah Ryan was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from Quinsy, an aggressive form of tonsillitis that can […]
Imagine, for a moment, that the world’s ten biggest, richest, and most cartoon-villain evil polluters came together in a secret conference to develop a plan to discredit the Green movement and make the population think that environmentalists were all dangerous wackos. Could they conceivably come up with a better plan than to send millions of […]
Reada Cronin, a newly elected Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, regularly made controversial statements in the years before she was elected, including statements where she said she would be ‘unsurprised’ if ‘loads of judges’ were paedophiles; that she had thought a picture of monkeys in a building was a photo of the Israeli embassy […]
The British media is currently engulfed in a controversy over Boris Johnson’s adviser, Andrew Sabisky, who, it has been revealed, made a series of questionable comments on various areas of public policy in the years prior to his appointment. British writer Ben Sixsmith writes that the furore around Sabisky is overblown, and symptomatic of a […]
Politics is supposed to be a simple enough activity. The basic idea is that various parties put forward ideas for how the country should be governed, the voters choose between the various offerings, and the people who get the largest number of seats in the parliament then have the power to form a Government that […]
Mr. Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of workplace visits by police due to political opinions of staff “must not be underestimated.”
In the wake of reports of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is in “aggressive containment mode”, and fear the illness isn’t going away any time soon. “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think […]
Retired NYPD detective Daniel Sprague was celebrating his 50th birthday in Nashville last weekend when he was punched in the face by a woman angered at what she believed was a MAGA hat on his head.
New diagnostic standards implemented in the province of Hubei means that yesterday’s figure of over 15,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24 hour period was almost nine times higher than the 1,638 cases reported the day before.
Mattie McGrath is a politician a lot of people deeply admire (full disclosure, since people writing about politics really should tell you these things: He got my number one vote last Saturday) but come on now, this is a bit of a rush of blood to the head, isn’t it? “Independent Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath […]