If you’ve only been reading the Irish media, there’s a very good chance you won’t be aware of the mounting row in Brussels over whether or not the EU should issue so-called “Eurobonds” to help countries like Italy (and Ireland, indeed) get through the Covid-19 crisis. There has been some coverage, but not a vast […]
This will drive the conspiracy theorists mad: “Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown […]
The European Parliament called for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passed in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carried no legislative weight but provoked a storm of political controversy. It was not the first and wouldn’t be the last time institutions within the European Union would admonish Ireland for it’s pro-life […]
The scale of the migrant crisis on the Greek border with Turkey is hard to put into context for an Irish audience. Already there are mumblings and grumblings of discontent in Ireland about the number of Asylum seekers, and controversy about their housing. 10,000 homeless people, when the country hit that milestone figure, was regarded […]
“They don’t see themselves as criminals. They’re just doing what they’ve done all their lives and their parents and grandparents did before them.”
In some ways, you have to feel very sorry for Fianna Fáil’s MEP Billy Kelleher. When he voted, as a TD, to abolish the offence of blasphemy, he probably thought he was increasing his own freedom of speech. What he didn’t realise was that the offence of blasphemy in Ireland was only abolished for mocking […]
The reaction to the Brexit vote in Ireland is born of pure ignorance in all things
EU, ignorance existing within the highest echelons of politics and the media
right down to the ordinary Joe-citizen.
Brexit could spell the breakup of the United Kingdom if a new YouGov poll conducted in Scotland proves accurate.
A new report published today has revealed that 92% of renters in Dublin Docklands are coming from abroad to work in the city – and they are pricing locals out of the rental market. The Docklands Residential Report 2020 is published by Owen Reilly Estate Agency which sells and rents homes in the area. They found that […]
The European Commission (the executive branch of the EU) for the next five years has recently taken office under the Presidency of Ursula von der Leyen. The 27 members of the Commission (one from each member state – the departing UK has not named a commissioner) form a cabinet government and together they propose legislation, […]
Boris Johnson’s government has been warned that failure to deliver special systems for the border processing of goods on the island of Ireland will likely result in legal action being taken by the European commission.
Airbus SE has given the UK’s economy a significant vote of confidence ahead of Britain’s official departure from the EU.