The real policy is that you will get vaccinated, or we will make your life a hollow shell of the life you could lead, once you get your jab.
One rule that is a good one to abide by in life is this: Never be mean or rude to somebody knocking at your door. That goes especially for political canvassers: Most of them are party volunteers, not responsible for setting policy, and are doing something good and healthy in a democracy: getting involved and […]
Tutankhamun (c. 1342 – c. 1325 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father was the heretical king Akhenaten, believed to be the mummy found in the tomb KV55. His mother […]
ON THIS DAY: 3 NOVEMBER 1845: Irish Delegation visited Lord Heytesbury to act immediately and stop the export of food from Ireland because millions were starving. He declined. On that date, a delegation of concerned and alarmed Irishmen including Daniel O’Connell, Mayor O’Sullivan of Dublin and twenty others visited Britain’s Viceroy in Ireland, Lord Heytesbury. […]
Due to the massive imbalance in their demographics, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announced the decision to relax the one-child policy. Under the new policy, families could have two children if one parent, rather than both parents, was an only child. Apart from the violence endured by many Chinese women who were […]
Quinton De Kock is the one losing here. He is much closer to Colin Kaepernick than any of the sheep who troop out onto pitches to kneel down and demonstrate their compliance, every single week.
“If I die I know the fruit will exceed the cost a thousand fold. The thought of it makes me happy. I thank God for it. Ah, Cathal, the pain of Easter week is properly dead at last.” Terence MacSwiney wrote these words in a letter to Cathal Brugha on September 30, 1920, the 39th […]
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ON THIS DAY: 20 OCTOBER 1933: The Irish Free State government purchases the copyright of Peadar Kearney’s “The Soldiers Song” – Amhrán na bhFiann – which becomes the national anthem It was composed “early in 1910 or late in 1909”, words by Peadar Kearney, and music by his childhood friend and neighbour Patrick Heeney on […]
Not only did nobody intervene to help the victim. It actually is worse than that:
Colbert was the final man executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May, 1916
ON THIS DAY: 18TH OCTOBER 1899: Death of Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh (Fr. Eugene O’Growney) He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century. As a young boy he was very interested in the Irish language and after being ordained a priest, became an editor […]