The municipal election results in Hong Kong at the weekend, in which the pro democracy anti-Communist candidates took 90% victory of the seats, have been widely acclaimed as a victory for pro-democracy demonstrators seeking to resist further encroachments on their freedoms from Beijing. Many western governments and political leaders have voiced their support and Donald […]
A few months ago, shortly after this website launched, we were one of the very few voices to stand up for Young Fine Gael President, Killian Foley-Walsh, after he and some colleagues were denounced for attending a conference in Washington D.C. held by the Young Americas Foundation. A quick reminder: “The young man in the […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has submitted the Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2019 to the Dáil. The Bill aims to make the online provision of pornography to children illegal, and has been drafted in response to growing concerns from parents about easy access to pornography online. Deputy Tóibín said “The proliferation of […]
This business of demanding that social media censor every opinion that we don’t like just isn’t going to end well. Here’s another press hit this morning for the Minister for blaming everybody but himself for Health: “HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris is to meet with a number of social media companies today to discuss the spread […]
Key findings by scientists studying the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack in Syria were erased from the final report of a UN investigation into the incident, a leaked email has revealed.
One of the earliest investors in Facebook, Sean Parker, says that the platform was knowingly designed to be addictive. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he added. Speaking at an Axios event, Parker – who was a founding president of Facebook – said” When Facebook was getting going, I had these people […]
A case taken by a pro-life teenager who was subject to a deluge of fake news and defamation after the March for Life in Washington last year has been cleared to proceed a federal judge has ruled. Nick Sandmann’s is taking a €275 million defamation suit against NBC Universal for their news coverage of him […]
Farmers from across Ireland are planning a national tractor protest in Dublin later this week to campaign against what they say is the Government’s continued discrimination of our farming community and rural Ireland as a whole. The protest is not being organised by the IFA or any other farming organisation, and appears to be a […]
It’s worth recalling that Arlene Foster was eight years old in 1979 when her father, John Kelly (Foster is her married name) was shot in the head in the driveway of the family home. Speaking about the experience in 2015, she recalled: “I was eight when my father, John Kelly, was shot – I hadn’t […]
The Journal.ie reports this morning that there appears to be no end in sight to Ireland’s newly declared direct provision wars: THE GOVERNMENT IS looking at housing thousands of asylum seekers in new Direct Provision centres in the coming years. The numbers of people arriving to seek international protection in the state has risen 50% […]
Senator Rónán Mullen has urged the Irish Wheelchair Association to commit to a ‘stay of execution’ around its proposed closure of the Cuisle respite facility in Donamon, Co Roscommon, calling for additional time to facilitate community and political efforts to keep the centre open. Mullen participated in an emergency 3.5 hours meeting of the Joint […]
More evidence, one might argue, that progress and compassion aren’t necessarily linear. More people died of drug-related causes last year than at any time in the history of the State, new figures cited in the Dáil show. 736 people in Ireland died last year of drug-related causes, compared to just 431 in 2004, an increase […]