In a letter sent to Canada’s Minister of Heritage, Trudeau calls for ‘significant penalties’ to be imposed on social media companies that fail to remove content perceived as hate speech within 24 hours.
When even the UN, the world’s largest NGO (non governmental organisation) is noticing that Ireland has a vast number of NGOs, we might have a problem: “NGO” is sort of a misleading term, to be fair. Non-Governmental kind of implies, to the casual reader, that these are truly independent, civil-society driven organisations made up of […]
Séamus Healy, TD, on Climate Change: Climate change is a real and distressing phenomenon which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society. We only have to think of a country like the Philippines and, more recently, the Pacific island of Vanuatu, to see the utter devastation that climate change is wreaking on the most […]
Ireland has 4 living former Taoisigh – John Bruton, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, and Enda Kenny. Last week it was revealed that the Government will spend €300,000 annually to provide them with various perks – a secretary, a car, VIP passage through airports, and that sort of thing. This has generated considerable public anger. It […]
Parents of primary school children say that they have not been re-assured by the Education Minister’s comments around the issue of radical changes to sex-education in schools, because parents and teachers are still in the dark about what will actually be on the curriculum. Last week, Minister Joe McHugh’s said that the ethos of schools “will […]
It has emerged that prominent members of Saoradh, a far-left group that police say is the political wing of the New IRA, yesterday attended the “Rally for Peace on Earth – Against the Politics of Hatred” event, which was organised and supported by some of Ireland’s largest NGOs. Saoradh Facebook post _ _ _ […]
A demonstration opposing a free speech Rally at the Dáil today saw religious charity Trócaire standing with masked Antifa members. Hundreds of protesters for and against free speech lined the street on both sides of Kildare Street. “I have a direct debit with Trócaire that I’m cancelling on Monday,” one pro free speech demonstrator told […]
What a difference a year makes. Here’s the Irish Times’ own Kitty Holland, almost exactly one year ago, approvingly reporting on proposals to introduce a hate speech law: And here’s the Irish Times’ own Kitty Holland an hour ago, reacting to the news that that nice Mr. Corbyn had not achieved a majority for socialism […]
A petition supporting Selina Soule, a schoolgirl athlete from Connecticut who has lodged an official complaint because she and others are now being forced to compete against biological males, has now attracted almost 175,000 signatures. The complaint, and the supporting petition, point to growing sense of unease about the impact of new policies on women’s […]
Since 2016, the Irish political and media establishment has clung to a single, unifying, and unshakeable theory about Brexit: It was a fluke result, fuelled by the confluence of several unique factors. A poor remain campaign. Lies by Brexiteers. A surge in anti-immigrant sentiment, or when they’re not being diplomatic, “racist bigotry”. Poor turnout by […]
Gardaí have said the 2018 killing of a Japanese man in Dundalk by Mohamed Morei (21) was a “random” stabbing that is unrelated to terrorism, despite the accused’s previous claims to be part of ISIS.
There was a real danger there, for a while, that Tubridy and Co would have to take significant pay cuts to account for the fact that not enough people are watching RTE, but thanks to the generosity of the Fine Gael government, on your behalf, crisis averted: RTÉ is set to receive €50 million in […]