Denial of two genders the issue
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has been criticised for failing to answer questions from parents
Dublin City Council’s City Manager, Owen Keegan, is not, of course, the de jure King of Dublin. The last man to hold such an office was Ascaill Mac Ragnaill, who was shamefully deposed by the English in 1170, and beheaded a year later in a failed attempt to regain his throne. Keegan is, however, effectively […]
One of the rather more desperate attempts by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to recoup lost ground to Sinn Féin has been to focus on the latter party’s apparent track record in voting against proposals to build housing developments. Sinn Féin has indeed pursued inconsistent policies, as we shall see, but the political reality is […]
The internationally-renowned uilleann piper and maker Leo Rowsome has been honoured by a Dublin City Council commemorative plaque on the street where he lived and worked until his death in 1970. Born into a piping family in Harold’s Cross, Leo Rowsome was the third generation of an unbroken line of uilleann pipers, who went on […]
Councillor Paddy Holohan has announced his decision to leave Sinn Féin, saying he would not renew his membership of the party because he had been treated ‘highly unfairly’ in regard to an internal party investigation. He said “today is a brighter day” as he pledged to work as an Independent Councillor on South Dublin County […]
If there is a word to sum up the political zeitgeist in Ireland over the past decade, it must surely be “compassion”. The 2010’s were the decade when official Ireland set out, flanked by an armada of well-funded NGO’s and supported by a media thirsty for change, to right the wrongs of the past. In […]
Dublin City Council have passed a motion to list the home of 1916 hero The O’Rahilly on the Register of Protected Structures, pending examination of the issue. This means that the house cannot be demolished in the while it remains on the Register. The success of the motion, proposed by Sinn Féin’s Micheál Mac Donncha comes after […]
We have written here here before about the increasing encroachment of overseas vulture and cuckoo funds into the Irish property sector. Government schemes such as the Immigrant Investment Programme, allow wealthy Chinese nationals who are being advised by Irish companies such as Bartra, to basically buy all the rights that go with being granted a […]