The fact of the matter is this: “Far Right” is just the bucket, increasingly, into which the state and its allies toss every issue and group that they do not wish to deal with.
Colm Meaney continues his series of the Philippines
Mickey Devine was the last man to die on the hunger strike
The people who assaulted Mr. Sheehan have no fear of getting caught. If they do get caught, they have no fear of prison. If the Gardai bring them all the way to court, chances are they may get suspended sentences.
A pamphlet on the event, titled “The wonderful discovery of witches in the county of Lancaster” became a best seller
And this is the bigger problem with modern society: For all we talk about “diversity”, every single difference amongst us must be pathologised.
When everything is a crisis, something needs to change.
One common error that organisations make, in the twenty first century, is to try to become what their critics say they should be. The reason that this is an error is that their critics are usually lying.
Almost 4000 years ago the High King of Ireland, King Luaghaidh Lamhfada, founded An Aonach Tailteann. The festival was to honour and celebrate his deceased mother, Queen of Tailte, and as a tribute to the dead. On the 1st of August, kings, queens, and noblemen travelled from all over the country to watch the games […]
“We are bound to love our own people with a special and peculiar love, a love that is not founded upon the common characteristics of the human race, but which is founded upon the special and distinctive character of our own nationality.” – Father Mícheál Ó Flannagáin Michael Flanagan was born near Castlerea in Co. […]
The goat spends its time eating, drinking, sleeping and seems bemused by and indifferent to its surroundings more than anything else.
It’s a tradition which, I think, were someone to try and start today, would be almost universally opposed.