To be fair, they won’t have much choice in the matter. If Ireland keeps spending money like a drunken sailor, then sooner or later, Brussels will step in and tell them that they have to stop, for the sake of the wider eurozone. That might suit Irish politicians just fine, though, since they’ll be able […]
It goes without saying that the big problem with Northern Ireland is that almost everything in it is, or has been, completely corrupted by tribal politics and whataboutery. A wrong committed by one “side” can, and will, inevitably be matched by a wrong committed by the other. The history of that place is alive, and […]
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Convention Centre in Dublin to protest a government bill on domestic vaccine passes. According to reports, busloads of protesters were arriving from around the country, and the entire event was organised in under 24 hours. https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1415442014452260865 The crowd chanted phrases such as “Shame on you” and “Freedom”, while posters […]
No more prosecutions for murders during the Troubles?
Michael McNamara TD has asked the Taoiseach at what point civil disobedience becomes legitimate “if democracy is reduced to a tyranny of a narrow majority?” The remarks were made by the independent Clare TD in the Dáil earlier today, with the Deputy slamming the Taoiseach’s repeated curtailment of parliamentary debates. I asked the Taoiseach when […]
A new RedC poll, commissioned by the feminist group The Countess, has shown that only 17% of Irish people support Ireland’s current gender change laws and believe that people should be able to legally change their sex on their birth certificate “as soon as they self-identify as or believe that they are a member of […]
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has accused the government of adopting the most extreme policies in relation to Covid restrictions and called for common sense into the debate on hospitality reopening. The Aontú leader said that: “The Irish Government has taken the most extreme policies in relation to restrictions in all of Europe. Workplaces are […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea of mandatory vaccinations for all citizens, after already making vaccines mandatory for medical personnel. Speaking during a televised address to the French nation this week, Macron cited the Delta variant of Covid-19 as the reason for the move. The French government declared that all medical personnel in […]
Twelve per cent of those in rental accommodation spend more than half of their take-home income on rent, a new survey has found. Some tenants in the greater Dublin area are forking out a hefty 64% of net income on rent. The research from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) also found that half of tenants […]
Vaccine passports.
European regulators are now analysing data on rare cases of a neurological disorder which may have arisen among a small number of recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after United States authorities added a warning label to the jab this week. The US Food and Drug Administration updated its warning labels for the J&J […]
1930s Germany.