23% of cohort born outside Irish state
Fifty years ago, Flint, Michigan was a thriving manufacturing hub of 200,000 people. Then known as “Vehicle City”, there were 80,000 auto industry jobs. In 1978, General Motors began downsizing Flint. Eventually, the number of living-wage jobs declined by 90 percent. Things were so bad by the 1980s that filmmaker Michael Moore released a documentary, […]
What about Ireland?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is an enigma to many in the lands formerly known as the “free West.” However, it would behoove us to take note of his opening remarks in his Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly (comparable to the U.S. State of the Union) on February 15, 2021. He began thus: Colleagues, Russia’s future and historical perspective […]
All around the world, and not just in developed countries, fertility rates are plummeting. For many people, including dedicated demographers, large families and healthy fertility rates belongs to a bygone era. Many have also become skeptical of the fact that the Christian faith can still have the seemingly magical power of keeping fertility rates up. […]
In my last post I looked at the end of the coronavirus and how the world will react in the light of China’s lies, threats and risky behaviour which has left so many people dead around the world and so much of the world’s economy in free-fall. Today I want to briefly discuss another impact […]