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Left to its own devices, Coronavirus kills people one at a time. When it’s got the helping hand of Government and NPHET, on the other hand, it can wipe out whole cities: The Cabinet are to meet this morning where they will decide on the latest NPHET recommendations. The public health experts met on Thursday […]
Anne Devlin was born in County Wicklow around the end of the 1770s and in 1800 met Robert Emmet and assisted him in his plans for an uprising in Dublin. On the evening of the 23rd July 1803 the rising went ahead in Dublin, but despite taking the British authorities by surprise, the rebellion collapsed. […]
Ben Scallan: “Why is Hazel Chu asking what Deliveroo is doing about crime in the city, when she is literally the Lord Mayor of Dublin? Isn’t presiding over the city her job?”
There has, naturally, been quite a bit of chatter in recent days about the despicable, racist attack carried out by a gang of Dublin gurriers on an innocent east Asian woman last week. If you haven’t seen it, here it is. In this case, there is no doubt whatever that racism was a primary factor […]
Anger and frustration have been widely expressed on social media at the decision of thousands of people to ignore social distancing restrictions and march through Dublin city centre yesterday. Many commentators were also critical of news outlets who covered the protest without any critical observations of the breach of the lockdown which has seen people being unable to attend funerals […]
The fates have clearly conspired to deny Dublin a six-in-a-row. Or have they? Perhaps our focus for a source of the virus ought not to be on Wuhan but Lyrecrompane? You would not be up to them. On a more serious note, it would seem that the GAA inter county season will fall victim to the […]
The reality of surgical abortions are gruesome and barbaric, that is without even entering the ethical debate: that it is wrong to take defenceless human life.
The photo and banner are from Southwold in Britain but the sentiments match what many in rural Ireland are feeling as reports began to emerge of people flouting coronavirus restrictions to travel to holiday homes in Clare, Donegal, Wexford and other locations. Aoife Ní Shuilleabháín, in West Kerry, pointed out the obvious. Some 21% of houses on […]
An eight-year-old boy who was attacked yesterday afternoon by two dogs in his home in Tallaght has died. Two dogs attacked the child at around 4pm on Sunday, leaving him with life-threatening injuries. The emergency services had treated the child at the scene and he had then been taken to Tallaght University Hospital, and transferred […]
A group of protesters are gathering daily outside a social housing development site in Mulhuddart village for what they describe a “House The Irish First” protest. They believe the houses on site, though still under construction, have already been earmarked for foreign-nationals, despite the fact that many locals still remained on the housing list. Protesters […]
In Dostoyevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov asserts that if there is no God, then anything is permitted. Reading what is known so far of the details of the horrific murder of the 17 year-old whose body parts were found in different parts of Dublin this week, we must certainly be conscious that […]
A farmers’ protest in Dublin has called for reinforcements as the demonstration in the city centre enters its second day.
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