The image of an elderly man crawling on hands and knees to find help, his shoelaces tied together in an act of horrible cruelty, should have us determined to change something.
For example, it would be unthinkable that the new dress code for the Gardai would be extended to the judiciary.
Derry concert tonight
An obsession with transposing the prejudices of American progressives into Irish culture, whether those prejudices fit or not.
“The Irish Nutcracker”
The real problem, as it has been for some time, is that parts of our capital city – and other cities – have been abandoned to a kind of feral lawlessness.
Ultimately, these impulses are grounded in fear. Not fear of the person speaking, but fear of the public.
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph MacDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker. He grew up in a household filled with music, poetry and learning and was instilled with a love of both English and Irish culture from a young age. A member of the Gaelic League, he was a teacher and […]
#JamesBluntOnJoeRogan
A free country should always retain the right to say that those who come here and systematically break our laws and harm our people are not welcome
Today, the Cork Fenian Society will host a commemoration to mark the 200th anniversary of Cath Chéim an Fhia (Battle of Keimaneigh), a battle between Irish tenant farmers – organized in secret, agrarian reform societies known chiefly as The Whiteboys and The Rockites – against the British militia in 1822. On a frigid January 22 […]
Gaelic treasure