Big Tech – the handful of powerful companies who have a near-monopoly on social media and many avenues of public speech – moved in concert last week to ban or severely restrict Donald Trump from communicating with his followers. Mr Trump received 74 million votes in the US Presidential election in November, with some 47% of voters […]
Paul Murphy TD has been remarkably consistent in demanding more and more Covid restrictions. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday, he approvingly retweeted an Irish Times article which described him as “the Dáil’s most consistent advocate of a zero covid strategy”. Here he is, basking in the acclaim, and criticising the Government for […]
Up to 200 people have attended a protest and prayer vigil at RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, in what they describe as “an act of public reparation” for the New Years’ Eve sketch which accused God of rape. Participants prayed and held banners displaying the Holy Face of Jesus and signs which accused RTE of failing to […]
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
A demonstration was held on Thursday night in remembrance of deceased schoolboy Noah Donohoe. Blue ribbons were fixed to the gates of Stormont as mourners gathered to remember the 14-year-old boy as a cavalcade of cars in his honour took off across Belfast city with horns beeping to allow for social distancing. https://twitter.com/MyNoah8/status/1347537900347469825 https://twitter.com/MyNoah8/status/1346822376625987584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346822376625987584%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbelfastmedia.com%2Fcar-convoy-to-support-the-family-of-noah-donohoe-tonight Before […]
The concerning thing here is not the number of people in hospital, actually. 1,100 patients is a lot, but a modern first world health service should be able to cope with that. No, the concerning thing is this graph: 151 admissions in the past 24 hours, and the rate increasing at more than 100 a […]
There are a number of things that are remarkable about this tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The first, though, is that it’s still up, unmolested by twitter, with no warning, or clarification attached. President Trump gets banned for dopey tweets about how he didn’t really lose the election. China, on the other hand, […]
Denmark’s national broadcaster has released a children’s cartoon about a man with the world’s longest penis.
After thousands of people complained, RTE has now said it will remove a sketch which said God had raped the Mother of Christ from the station’s Player and apologised for broadcasting the item. More than 7,000 people had signed a petition calling for an apology started by Becky Kealy of Aontú, while the station also […]
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), a political group in the European Parliament, has called on the EU to be “held accountable” for the failures the ECR says have stalled vaccine rollouts in Europe. These failures, they say, have taken place whilst “millions across the continent have suffered.” The ECR currently has 62 MEPs, drawn […]
At approximately this time yesterday morning, the question of “what to do about the schools” was remarkably uncontroversial, as these things go. In the face of an explosion in the number of cases, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions on foot of covid, the country had basically made peace with the fact that schools would not […]
The crew had travelled approximately 240 nautical miles to get to the haddock-rich waters, but were forced to retreat following the intervention.