“Do not provoke the host.”
A contestant in the Rose of Tralee has said she will not take part in the 2022 festival if she is forced to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Christine Smyth was selected as the Ohio Rose just before this year’s festival was cancelled for a second year in a row because of the ongoing Covid-19 shutdown. […]
Biden administration accused Boris Johnson of “inflaming tensions” in Northern Ireland.
A man who pleaded guilty to sexual assault was still working as a taxi-driver sixteen months after he assaulted a woman outside her home at the end of a cab ride. Kusika Kudia (55) told gardaí in an interview that he had kissed the woman without her permission but he suggested she was “looking for […]
“Mainstream feminism supports root causes of sexual violence.”
Maya Forstater, a British feminist who lost her job after colleagues complained that they found remarks she had made on social media, such as a comment arguing that “trans women are male,” offensive, has had her claims of discrimination vindicated by the Employment Appeal Tribunal. Forstater had original brought a case to Central London Employment […]
Right, hands up, this opening paragraph is going to make a lazy, not particularly insightful point. In this case, however, there are not many other obvious points to make, so here goes: Imagine somebody wrote this in an academic paper about Black People: Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, […]
Regular readers will be familiar with Dr. Michael Mina, the Harvard expert on antigen testing who pronounced himself feeling “sorry for Ireland” a few weeks back, after listening to Stephen Donnelly play down the benefits of antigen testing on the radio. Dr. Mina paid a visit to Dublin yesterday, presumably to see for himself the […]
“This is a common part of election practices,” Ó’Broin claimed.
Defeat for western powers.
Six of Ireland’s top universities have fallen significantly in the QS World University Rankings for 2022. QS’s overall rankings are based on factors such as academic and employer reputation, the ratio of staff to students, citations per faculty and more. According to the data, the drop in Irish universities’ ranking is down to a decline […]
A man with 161 previous convictions who robbed a café twice while out on bail for stealing from a whiskey museum has had his jail term reduced from 6 years to 4. 33-year-old Jonathan Grimes was out on bail for burglarising the whiskey museum when he robbed Bewley’s café in Dublin city centre, not once, […]