In that time she lived through Tsarist Russia, the USSR and the eventual demise of Communism, after which her country of Tajikistan gained independence.
If you were to distil Ireland’s emergent culture wars down to their purest, most unadulterated essence, you probably couldn’t come up with a better few lines than this response to a questionnaire on cycling by the Chairman of Renua Ireland: TheJournal's first Election Q&A is up. We asked each party their policies on cycling in […]
A new report published today has revealed that 92% of renters in Dublin Docklands are coming from abroad to work in the city – and they are pricing locals out of the rental market. The Docklands Residential Report 2020 is published by Owen Reilly Estate Agency which sells and rents homes in the area. They found that […]
If you were the kind of person who bets, and if you had the chance to lay odds on which political party would produce the single dumbest policy of the General Election, you’d never go far wrong betting on Solidarity/People Before Profit. And if you’d made that bet, then today you would have won. A […]
Donald Trump has said no Israelis or Palestinians would be uprooted from their homes if his Middle Eastern peace plan was adopted by both sides, but a proposed Israeli annexation of West Bank settlements might prove to be the biggest sticking point in the proposed two-state solution.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told Variety magazine she feels the “urge” to run because “the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome”.
Sinn Féín TDs have “zero” influence over the party’s policy decisions, according to a former representative, and TDs are told what to do by unelected party staff. In fact, Peadar Tóibín says, Sinn Féin’s TDs are not even allowed to chose their own parliamentary assistants and must represent the party rather than the people who elected them. The Aontú […]
Well, this will come as a relief to the hundreds of thousands of voters up and down the country who are presently losing sleep at the prospect of the election depriving the nation of its finest politician: “Children’s minister Katherine Zappone has said she would be willing to work in a government led by Micheál […]
Senator Catherine Noone, a candidate for Fine Gael has issued an apology for calling Taoiseach Leo Varadkar “autistic” during an election canvass. The Times last night reported that Ms Noone, a candidate Dublin Bay North, said of Mr Varadkar “He’s autistic like, he’s on the spectrum, there’s no doubt about it. He’s uncomfortable socially and he […]
The Taliban has released footage of what it claims was a US Air Force plane carrying a number of CIA agents over Afghani airspace.
At a cost of £280,000 to the British taxpayer, and with the trips’ carbon emissions totaling eighteen times that of the average Briton annually, Prince Charles has been left red-faced following his glowing endorsement of the environmentalist cause at the Switzerland meeting of billionaires.
In ancient Rome, a victorious General returning to the city in triumph always had a slave walking behind him through the cheering crowds, whispering, again and again, into his ears the words “memento mori” – remember, you are a mortal. It might be a good idea to revive the practice for men in general, and […]