A strange sight this morning, as Sinn Fein’s newly elected TDs arrived in Dublin for a Parliamentary Party meeting to talk about their strategy ahead of the first meeting of the new Dáil: Sinn Féin gathering for a meeting of its expanded parliamentary party. Not sure who this new fella in the middle is. Anyone? […]
Christians are often reported to government surveillance groups called “inminban”, literally meaning “people’s groups”, who conduct regular house inspections, arresting suspected Christians, or anyone found worshiping or in possession of the Scriptures.
Greta Thunberg might think that she’s the one setting an example to the next generation on green issues, but she’s got a long way to go before she can go head to head with the master: At Oscars wearing Pomellato jewelry because it only uses responsible, ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds. #Oscars pic.twitter.com/IBfJzM84v2 — […]
When photographer Sam Rowley first published his ‘Station Squabble’ photo, it was so good many people thought it had to be photo-shopped. But it was real, and has now won an award from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The perfectly-timed shot of two tiny mice seemingly caught in a life-or-death […]
One of the benefits of Sinn Fein’s electoral triumph is that the Irish public will soon see ideas beloved of the left for a generation put, at along last, into practice. For two decades now, for example, the Irish people have been told that if Sinn Fein was in Government, US troops would have to […]
A Birmingham father who took his son out of school for months because of a dispute about LGBT lessons now faces the possibility of fines and jail for his actions.
In Ireland, the pundit class moves like a herd. Nobody wants to get too far away from the conventional wisdom, even when the conventional wisdom settles around a nonsense idea, as it is today. Fianna Fáil sources are now telling people that the party does not want to do business with Sinn Fein, and is […]
Cullinane insisted to reporters today that he had never distanced himself from the IRA and would not be retracting the comments.
A new pro-family party in Scotland has succeeded in having an explicit drag act cancelled after petitioning the school where he was to perform.
Four days before the February 8th vote an Ibsos/MRBI poll for TG4 claimed Danny Healy-Rae was in danger of losing his seat in Kerry. He took the seat comfortably. Danny’s brother, Michael Healy-Rae said commentators and pollsters were to be congratulated on being consistently wrong. As Danny told Virgin Media, his stance of putting the people before the […]
Some of the country’s most high-profile TDs are set to lose their seat in Election 2020. Meanwhile, several candidates who were predicted to to be in trouble look set to retain their seats or are in contention for a last seat in constituencies expected to go down to the wire. Kate O’Connell of Fine Gael […]
The election count is underway this morning after a shock exit poll predicted SF, FF, and FG would each receive 22% of the vote. SF usually underperform relative to the exit poll, -1% or so, FG usually perform as the exit polls predicted, and FF usually over-perform relative to the poll, +1 – 2% or […]