A 62-year-old Coptic Orthodox Christian was murdered by an ISIS-linked Islamist group in Egypt earlier this week after being kidnapped 5 months ago. In a graphic video, the victim, Nabil Habashy Salama, can be seen being shot dead as he was kneeling in the desert in Egypt on April 18th, 2021. According to the Coptic […]
Others question the commitment of figures like Bill Gates to the environment, given his ownership of several jets and lavish houses.
Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes before the victim eventually died.
Rarely, my friends, has there been a better or more comprehensive advert for not paying one’s licence fee than this tweet from Managing Director of RTÉ News, Jon Williams: Agree- it’s terrific. Love to do something similar @rtenews. All it needs is for everyone who is supposed to pay TV licence to do so. Then […]
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he does not anticipate a referendum on Irish Unity for “a very, very long time to come”, while Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that an early border poll would be “explosive and divisive.” Describing himself as “a proud unionist”, Johnson told BBC Northern Ireland’s Spotlight programme, which has […]
Dulce et Decorum est, Pro Patria Mori, wrote the Roman Poet Horace, at around about the time of Christ’s birth. It’s a famous Latin phrase, which translates to English as “it is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country”. In its time, the phrase was designed to encapsulate the highest form of patriotism, and […]
Liverpool’s American owner John W Henry last night apologised to fans for pursuing the idea, admitting he had caused much “disruption” in the space of 48 hours.
The government has announced a slight easing of restrictions from Monday the 26th of April, with the number of people allowed at funerals increasing from 10 to 25 “on compassionate grounds.” However, they stressed that gatherings should not take place “before or after” the funeral service. In addition, outdoor sporting facilities will be allowed to […]
Just 4 months after their departure from the EU, Brexit Britain has managed to land trade deals collectively worth over €1 trillion euros across 67 countries worldwide, plus the EU, as reported by Liz Truss MP, UK International Trade Secretary. “We have already secured nearly £900 billion in trade in covering 66 countries plus the […]
MEPs have asked the European Commission to launch proceedings against Ireland, saying GDPR rights were not enforced in a significant privacy case against Facebook, the Irish Independent reports. They want the EU to punish Ireland for what they believe was a failure to ensure privacy rights – and mishandling a high profile case taken by activist Max Schrems […]
The European Medicines Agency has said that while the Johnson and Johnson one-dose vaccine may be linked to rare blood clots, the benefits, they say, still outweigh the risks. The vaccine’s use was halted temporarily in the US amid blood clotting fears, after 8 people out of almost 7 million reportedly had unusual and serious […]
Richard Dawkins, the noted evolutionary biologist and atheist, has been stripped of his Humanist of the Year Award by the American Humanist Association (AHA). The AHA cited a tweet sent by Dawkins, which the AHA said “implies that the identities of transgender individuals are fraudulent, whilst also simultaneously attacking Black identity as one that can […]