A funny thing about the way the Irish media conducts its business is that it is perfectly capable of talking about two separate issues without ever allowing a connection to be drawn between the two, in case people might draw the right wrong conclusions. In Ireland now, the media is completely convinced of two things: […]
This weekend’s Sunday Times featured a chillingly authoritarian line from influential columnist Justine McCarthy, writing in frustration at events in Oughterard last week. Emphasis mine: “The people who repeat these mantras call themselves “the silent majority”. They are neither. They are, in fact, a minority in a country that has repeatedly shown itself to be […]
Immigration is one of those topics that most reasonable, middle of the road Irish people run away from talking about, for the simple reason that there seems to be no way of talking about it without annoying somebody from one of the two camps that seem to dominate the discussion. Camp one, of course, is […]
Ireland, as we know, has two police forces these days. There is, on the one hand, the Gardai, dedicated to enforcing the laws of the land, passed by the Dáil. And then on the other hand, there is the entity that radio presenters and newspaper reporters refer to as “twitter”, which is dedicated to enforcing […]
The accused 46-year-old man was denied bail after a court heard Gardaí were “at a loss” as to how he entered the country.
More than half of Ireland’s population growth in 2018 came from net migration into the country according to the Central Statistics Office’s annual Population and Migration Estimates released today.
Well, no, it’s not really “new”.