We know, because we live in a world where 80% of American men are circumcised, that the procedure does no lasting harm to the human body’s ability to function.
One of the problems Ireland and Irish leaders have is that if our problems could be solved by a few speeches at Beal na Bláth and some flowery rhetoric about our glorious republican dead, then this would be the wealthiest nation on earth.
A bear-ly believable encounter
Someone with the talent to effectively run an organisation that large can command that kind of salary in the private sector – so why are we paying our Ministers for Health the salary of a modestly successful country solicitor?
We shouldn’t pretend that the Rose of Tralee is something it’s not – but we will, because it makes us feel a bit less embarrassed about it.
“This is what Government should be doing but is too afraid to do” may well prove a better message than simply “Watergrasshill has said no”.
While the journalist might have some superficial sympathy for the idea that the Iraq war was bad, and thus understand the radicalisation, what is he to do with people who do not believe in the urgency of addressing climate change?
The GAA was part of a Gaelic revival at the end of the 19th century that revived a suppressed pride in the nation’s traditions and history
Eleven were sent to trial.
The traditional date for their foundation is 632 BC.
In a society where the state pays, your waistline suddenly becomes a matter of public policy.
An Irish force led by Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill ambushed Sir Conyers Clifford and his men though a pass in the Curlew mountains near the town of Boyle in Roscommon.