The recent spate of head-chopping terrorism in France would appear, at first glance, to be relatively easy to explain: The culprits are a group (it’s popular, but of dubious accuracy, to say “a tiny minority”) of extremists in the French Muslim community who believe themselves to be waging a holy war against the French state […]
The terrorist group, Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for killing at least 18 people and burning down a church in the Baeti village in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Reuters news agency reports. Kinos Katuho, the leader of a local civil rights group, told the outlet that […]
Leo Varadkar has been finding allies in unusual places, this morning, following last Friday’s publication in Village magazine of allegations that he had acted unlawfully by sharing details of a draft contract for GPs with a rival group of GPs: Former minister for agriculture Barry Cowen has said Leo Varadkar is “entitled to make a […]
Living in Ireland is unusual when following US politics. Our national broadcaster and every national publication is sympathetic towards the Democratic Party and it’s rare if ever you hear a flattering opinion of the Republican Party and especially not of the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. I’m not going to come at […]
After a week of violent attacks on Polish churches, including vandalism of statues of the revered Polish Pope, John Paul II, Poles have come out in cities across the country to defend their places of worship. A ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court which found that aborting unborn children with disabilities was discriminatory provoked fury from […]
A priest addressed a group gathered to pray in the Phoenix Park last night as pressure grows on the government to lift a ban on public Masses.
Horrific news via the Catholic Herald and Aid to the Church in Need today. They report that “the Sindh High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, has validated the marriage of a 13-year-old Catholic girl to a Muslim man who abducted her.” Thirteen year old Arzoo Raja had been kidnapped from outside her home on October 13th. […]
On the morning of Thursday the 29th, the French city of Nice was rocked by an Islamist terrorist attack that left 3 innocent people dead, one of whom was beheaded. Here’s what we know so far. Who was the attacker? Police have yet to officially confirm the attacker’s identity, but French media have identified him […]
The New York Post, one of America’s oldest newspapers has said that Twitter is a “clear threat to healthy democracy” after the social media platform locked the paper’s account for publishing a major story into Hunter Biden. “Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you,” the paper wrote in a headline story accusing […]
The money, you see, was only resting in Elisha McCallion’s account. That, at least, is the version of reality we are being asked to accept by the Sinn Fein leadership, which yesterday sought, and received, the resignation of the Derry-born senator over the mysterious diversion of ten thousand pounds of UK taxpayers money, which ended […]
Perhaps no country in the world has been the subject of more debate and scrutiny during the Coronavirus pandemic than Sweden. In the eyes of those who oppose the lockdown approach adopted by almost every other western country, Sweden is the example of a country that has successfully battled the virus without imposing draconian restrictions […]
Conversations at home that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the Scottish justice secretary has insisted.