First, it’s not up to the Taoiseach which debates do, or do not, happen in Ireland.
But seriously: Where are the prosecutions for the men to whom he provided these “services”?
Peter O’Neill was born in Coona, Cork, a descendant of the O’Neil clan of Co. Tyrone. He attended a hedge school in Inch, studied classics at Kilworth, and then began ecclesiastical studies at the Irish College in Paris, eventually teaching Celtic language and literature there. An exceedingly popular curate, he was appointed Parish Priest of […]
Ann McElhinney and Pheilim McAleer
Capping the number of people we can accommodate is not an expression of cruelty or bigotry, but an expression of our own ability to do basic mathematics.
There is a sense, in the country, that things are a bit out of control.
No balloon can stay aloft for ever.
Sensible schools will say “no thanks” to these books. It might be worth checking whether your local school is, in fact, a sensible one.
We have no problem recognising that alcohol, tobacco, and gambling are bad for us. And yet in not one of those pursuits is a young person violently humiliated for the entertainment of others.
Three former contestants have died by suicide.
This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners. 38 of them were from Ireland, by far the largest group of foreign-born workers. The fire in the Speculator Granite Mountain Mine shocked America and is still the worst […]
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.