The stench of political policing.
Politics is not actually conducted for your benefit.
“If I’m wrong on this, I’ll eat my share of humble pie. But reader: On this one, I won’t be wrong.”
“We are the media now” – and journalists absolutely HATE it.
We shouldn’t be rewarding criminals for hoodwinking us.
For most people, though, I suspect this kind of thing simply adds to the sense of a Government and a country that has given up on trying to fix hard problems, and is increasingly simply trying to paper over the cracks with rainbows.
On last night’s episode of the Tonight Show an Irish Independent journalist claimed that there was “zero evidence” that any occupant of asylum centres in Ireland was “a danger to anyone.” Saying that the fear expressed by local people in towns and villages where the government has decided to establish asylum centres was “entirely misplaced” […]
In many ways it is hard to blame the campaign group “Together for Safety” for lying as brazenly and openly as they did about the purpose and timing of prayer vigils at University Hospital Limerick. They are, after all, a campaign group, pursuing a political goal. So, when they claimed that “pro-life” campaigners had been […]
Photo Credit: Sinn Féin Flickr (CC attribution) Over the last week, Sinn Fein and its legion of online activists have gone to war with the Irish Independent’s Philip Ryan, who has diligently and thoroughly reported on the party’s “Abú” voter contact logging system. The story has divided people: If you’re a Sinn Fein supporter, then […]
On Saturday, The Irish Independent carried a sponsored propaganda…scrap that..a sponsored Editorial ’opinion’ piece from the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland. In one sense it is a masterful display of deflection. In quite another, and more pertinent sense it is a nauseating and infuriating piece that has about as much grounding in reality as the view […]
Ryan admits that not only did he fly to December’s climate summit in Madrid, but he remains at the steering wheel of his 2.5 litre van, loves his meat and dairy diet, and has no plans to change.
I know we’re all donning the green jersey, ready to fight a second war, if necessary, against the hated Brits, and lining up to denounce the fluffy-haired charlatan they have chosen as their Prime Minister, but, come on, was anyone really offended by the phrase “dead in a ditch”? Apparently we were, according to the […]