Irish Media Minister Catherine Martin has said that it would be the job of the government’s new Electoral Commission to “monitor” what communications are “appropriate” during Irish elections, when asked about billionaire Elon Musk’s comments to her last week. Last Friday, Gript asked Martin about new EU regulations around so-called “misinformation,” and the potential impact […]
Is Roisin Murphy in a stronger position because she apologised? No – she’s in a far weaker one
If one was to ask Leo Varadkar what his greatest achievement in politics have been, what do we think he might say? I would hazard a guess, personally, that the marriage equality and abortion referenda would make it into any top five. The Government never tires of reminding people how brave it was to take […]
A government that is block buying homes out from under its own working citizens in order to give those homes to non-working citizens is sending a message.
The Zulus never had an independent country again.
The sack of Rome, considered by most historians to mark the fall of the Western Roman Empire, happened on this day, August 27th, 410AD. It was the first time in 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy. The Empire had been in decline for almost two centuries, with invasions, on and off, […]
Revolt
the advent of the sexual revolution appears to have made young women relatively more dependent on the state
A bear-ly believable encounter
But what if it all backfires?
It should also be noted, of course, that those who dislike the Rose of Tralee nonetheless seek constantly to ape its success
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike