The bad news for Donald Trump, in this new poll from the excellent Ireland Thinks (which increasingly does polling on interesting questions that other companies just don’t) is that if Ireland was the 51st state of the Union, it would be the most Democratic state there is. Even in ultra-liberal Vermont, Trump will get something […]
The abbreviation “NGO” stands, as most people know, for “non governmental organisation”. In other words, it covers a whole range of charities, political lobby groups, and representative bodies who take part in the political process, but who are not political parties, or part of the Government. Amnesty Ireland is an NGO, as is the Irish […]
It seems Dr. Ebun Joseph is not finished with us yet. On November 9, she will be one of the speakers at an event hosted by Carlow IT and funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, which itself gets a chunk of the education budget. The theme […]
“Government ban household visits”, blared the Irish Examiner, last night, as the latest round of futile covid restrictions were announced: Government ban household visits – except for compassionate or essential reasons https://t.co/WSRGeVB06R — Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) October 14, 2020 Futile is a good word, here. The “restrictions” announced last night are not really restrictions at […]
An interesting aspect of the Budget was that it once again illustrated the minimal differences that exist across the entire range of political parties in Leinster House. Apart from the outlier of the People Before Profit demand for a wealth tax which they claim would deliver €3.5 billion, all of the arguing was over different […]
The Government has temporarily kicked the issue of “assisted suicide” to a yet-to-be configured consultation process through a Dáil committee. It will then come back to be considered and approved some time over the next year. Predictably enough the far left sponsors of the Bill and their Sinn Féin tail were not happy about this. […]
Micheál Martin? Kicking a controversial issue over to a special committee to report back in a year or so? Nah, can’t be right. Breaking: Government to table an amendment to Dying with Dignity Bill to allow a special committee examine issue…could delay passage of bill up to a year.. @Ginosocialist informed by ministers @HMcEntee and […]
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Three Nigerian men resident in Ireland were charged in the Dublin District Court last Friday as part of Garda Operation Engulf which targeted online fraud including what are known as ‘romance scams’. One of the charges relates to a woman who was defrauded of money by a person who she had made contact with through […]
If April’s testing rate had been what it is now, it’s fair to assume we would have found double the number of cases, making the entire attempt to gauge the severity and seriousness of the virus on the basis of case numbers a fool’s game.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a barbaric physical and human rights violation of young girls and women and is internationally recognised as such. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or “any practice that purposely changes or injures the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” FGM is mostly carried out […]
At nearly every protest in every western country, the attendees can be broadly divided into two groups of people. One group is the people who are there because they feel very strongly about the particular issue being protested. Some of them may never have protested before, and may never protest again. They may be there […]