Una Mullally’s savage, over the top, and downright nasty attack on Fine Gael by-election candidate James Geoghegan in this week’s Irish Times should be a wakeup call for the party, but it will not be. For most of the last decade, Fine Gael has sought to win the respect, admiration, and votes, of people like […]
Image Credit: Malcolm Byrne Social Media Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne has accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of carrying out a genocide against the Uyghur people, of persecuting practitioners of Falun Gong, and of “crushing” press and legal freedoms in Hong Kong. Senator Byrne was referring to the system of concentration camps which the […]
Green Party Climate Minister Eamon Ryan has indicated that indoor dining may not fully open until August, beyond the already-delayed 19th of July date previously given. Speaking this morning, Ryan said that while he expected digital travel certificates to be implemented on July 19th as previously outlined, other elements of re-opening would likely not be […]
Residential schools.
The Romanian man who brutally murdered an elderly Limerick woman in her own home “flitted in and out” of the country to commit offences, a prosecuting senior counsel said. Alexandru Iordache targeted 78-year-old Rosie Hanrahan in a supermarket in December 2017, following her to her home before breaking in and subjecting her to a horrifying ordeal. […]
“Hollowed out” sector.
Inadequate services.
A fascinating insight, here, into how difficult it is going to be for Governments to open up fully. The UK Government announced last night that from July 19th, facemasks would no longer be mandatory in England. A cause for celebration, you might think? Not so fast: The majority of Britons say face masks should continue […]
On Thursday, the good people of one of Ireland’s wealthiest constituencies, and one of its most liberal, will go to the polls to select a replacement TD, after Fine Gael’s Eoghan Murphy decided – quite rationally – that he had just about had enough of the carry on in Leinster House. In a constituency that […]
A new modelling study which examined blood clot risk from the AstraZeneca vaccine has found that the dangers to young people in relation to blood clots are greater than the benefits the vaccine might confer. If the entire population took the AstraZeneca jab, it concluded, while ten deaths in young people (aged 18-39) might be prevented by the vaccine, […]
Senator Michael McDowell has hit out at the government for a lack of “economic reality” on green policies, and called on Eamon Ryan to clarify his stance on nuclear power. Speaking in the Dáil today, the Senator explained Ireland’s precarious situation when it came to energy generation and the scaling up of Ireland’s famous data […]
The luddite environmentalist group Extinction Rebellion has declared that “nature is queer,” that “trees can be both male and female and change sex,” and that “the huge range of biodiversity is echoed in human diversity.” The statement was released following a rally in Helsinki by Extinction Rebellion Finland. That rally demanded “ecosocial justice” and the […]