Talented traditional musician
Slovakian national
It is a statement of fact that every time an immigrant commits a crime in Ireland, immigration policy is a factor.
Cynical
The image of an elderly man crawling on hands and knees to find help, his shoelaces tied together in an act of horrible cruelty, should have us determined to change something.
Independent Cork TD Michael Collins has hit out at politicians who he claims seized on the death of Ashling Murphy to advance “sad points of view.” Following the killing of Murphy, a 23-year-old Offaly native, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith took to the Dáil to lay culpability at the feet of Catholic schools for […]
The past ten days has seen an outpouring of shock and grief in regard to the senseless murder of a beautiful and talented young teacher, Ashling Murphy, as she went for a run in Tullamore. While her grief-stricken family sought privacy to mourn Ashling, the dominant voices in the media were largely accusatory against Irish men, […]
Speaking in the Dáil this week, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald decided to give it to the entire nation of Ireland with both barrels, dubbing the country’s past and present “ugly and dangerous.” “The roots of sexism and misogyny run deep,” she said. “The Ireland of religious dogma, that defined women as men’s property, […]
Jozef Puska
In the wake of the senseless and tragic killing of 23-year-old Offaly native Ashling Murphy, there has understandably been a viscerally emotional reaction from people the length and breadth of the country. Naturally, we all want to ensure that something this awful can never happen again, and most people (myself included) agree that new systems […]
This has not been an opportunity for a “national conversation”. It has been an opportunity for one group of people to do what they always want to do: Tell everyone else to sit down and shut up and listen to what they have to say and accept it as gospel truth.
For most of yesterday, the name of the person who was wrongly suspected of carrying out the unprovoked and brutal murder of Ashling Murphy was not made public by the Gardai. All that we knew is that he was male, in his forties, originally from Romania, and was known to Gardai. And, of course, that […]