It’s a funny thing, in 2022, to live in a modern, tolerant, compassionate country like Ireland.
The Legion of Mary, which remains the largest lay organisation in the Roman Catholic Church, was founded in Dublin on this day, September 7th, 1921, by Frank Duff, and celebrates 99 years in existence today. Almost a century after it was founded in a small room on Francis Street, Dublin, the Legion of Mary has […]
These laws sowed the seed for further discontent and rebellion.
It might just be time to have a reckoning with the fact that the Irish media and political establishment is suffering from an exceptionally demented case of Anglophobia.
So, I think the main trouble here is that we’re avoiding the central issue.
Oliver Cromwell, the butcher of Drogheda, died on this day in 1658, having suffered a painful end from a urinary tract infection that caused blood poisoning. Three years after he died, his body was exhumed and ceremonially hanged in chains, and then thrown into a pit, so that his enemies could be sure that he […]
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
More than 1,000 prisoners were killed within 20 hours.
We demand participation, and compliance, with no exceptions. And woe to those, like the infernal Burkes from Mayo, who just won’t comply.
Sybil and Feidelm
The vast majority of council tenants pay their rent anyway, because they are responsible citizens. Some, though, just do not. And, as the figures make clear, they get away with it.
Winning once or twice is great but winning at a high level consistently is another thing.