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Greying populations are a threat to the world economy
The findings form part of a new report titled “Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards in Ireland” which will be published in full this Friday.
Today, an email somehow found its way into my inbox with some revealing numbers which go some way towards explaining the enormous cost required to ensure the United Nations remains the toothless organisation it has become. The missive came from a Director of Personnel at the UN’s headquarters in New York – the behemoth also operates three additional […]
If you don’t agree with the protestors in Dublin city centre on Saturday, that’s fine. I am not sure I do myself. Or I haven’t really engaged with what they are protesting about to understand what aspects of ‘lockdown’ are being protested. However, I understand why many felt the need to protest and the right […]
Last week it was announced that Google had been given the green light to proceed with their plan to create a “new urban centre” as part of their €300 million development at the former Boland’s Mill site on the south Dublin docks. Planning consultants John Spain Associates claimed that the project which will include various […]
As reported here a week ago, not only were work permits being issued to people coming from outside of the EU, but a large number had arrived in the first weeks of January from Brazil. Yes, from the country with the “deadly new strain” of the Covid virus. And as sure as night follows day, […]
In 2020 up to the end of November, there were 15,295 work permits issued to non EU nationals. The total for the previous year including renewals was 16,380. It is quite likely then, given the numbers who have arrived since Christmas from Brazil that the total of permits granted last year was very similar to, […]
Last year, a Traveller family parked their trailer in a layby up the road from where I live. They had a fair bit of space, and a small generator was used to give light and heat. We’d often pass by walking the dog, or going to the shops, and sometimes we’d nod and say hello to […]
“NO MEN NEED APPLY”: Irish politicians go full-radical feminist. Ben Scallan reacts #gript
JK Rowling has been slammed by transgender activists after she defended a UK charity worker who was fired for insisting that biological sex exists and is immutable.
Only someone completely out of touch with reality could declare, as Simon Harris did, that cutting payments to people with disabilities is about equity. Yet that’s exactly what Minister Harris said when he axed the training grant those who attend rehabilitative training (RT). His clinching argument was that not everyone with disabilities received the payment […]