Paddy Cosgrave, pictured above, is the founder and CEO of the Web Summit, which was a staple event of the Irish calendar for a period in the 2010’s, until an infamous dispute about WIFI coverage in the RDS forced Paddy and guests to decamp to Portugal to hold the annual event. Back then, Paddy Cosgrave […]
The UK branch of Black Lives Matter took to Twitter this week to assert that climate change is actually racist. “The climate crisis is a racist crisis. #ClimateEmergency.” the group tweeted. The climate crisis is a racist crisis #ClimateEmergency — #BlackLivesMatterUK (@ukblm) August 9, 2021 Previously, the group’s original US branch has made similar assertions. […]
There was a time, not so long ago, when big tech companies asserted that they were committed to freedom of speech, with reasonable limits on things like inciting hatred, or being overtly racist. If that was true, and all that they did, there would be very little controversy about so-called “big tech censorship”. But of […]
“HAP rates have to be addressed in the short term…”
Screen Ireland – a public body – gave €150,000 of taxpayer funds to make The 8th
A Christan preacher says that she is “vindicated” after a hate-speech charge was thrown out – and is now set to sue the Metropolitan Police in London for dragging her through the courts in an 18-month legal battle. Hazel Lewis, who has been described as a street preacher, was falsely accused of threatening to stab […]
Deputy McGrath said that the organisation were “again crossing the line and are abusing their status”
73-year-old Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke confirmed last night that he has tested positive for covid-19. The American cardinal gave the update in a tweet on Tuesday evening. “Praised be Jesus Christ!” he wrote. “I wish to inform you that I have recently tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Thanks be to God, I am resting […]
Two men from Eastern Europe have been denied bail after being accused of raping a young man near the GPO in Dublin. The alleged attack, which took place just twenty five metres from O’Connell street, was supposedly carried out by two unnamed men, aged 23 and 26, against a third man in his 20s who […]
In response to the latest IPCC Report, the Green Party issued a statement on 9th August 2021 saying that, “Time is running out, and we must take action now”. If it seems like the Green Party has been using consistent language about IPCC Reports for many years, that’s because the Green Party has been using consistent language about […]
Fascinating. The decline in traditional television has been going on for years, but one of the reasons that sport commands such huge royalty payments, in general, is that it has largely been the exception to the trend. The Olympic Games this year, though, suffered a massive collapse in viewers. Why? These are US figures, not […]
“The best way I can help now is if I step aside.”