It’s been a rough few days to be a young, devastatingly handsome, Irish man, to be honest. First, they cancelled the formula one. Then they cancelled the football. Now they’ve cancelled the golf, with the Masters being called off. And now, from the Irish Times, comes the most devastating hammer blow of them all: Can […]
An amazing story, this, by the Irish Times’ Jack Power, that got somewhat overlooked in the past few days: “Tusla, the State child and family agency, has been returning thousands of child welfare reports made to it by post back to senders with instructions they be resubmitted via an online portal. Concerns have been raised […]
What a difference a year makes. Here’s the Irish Times’ own Kitty Holland, almost exactly one year ago, approvingly reporting on proposals to introduce a hate speech law: And here’s the Irish Times’ own Kitty Holland an hour ago, reacting to the news that that nice Mr. Corbyn had not achieved a majority for socialism […]
It’s buried away in paragraph 13 of Colm Keena’s report in the Irish Times today, which doesn’t really do this news justice. Another blow for liberty is about to be struck against the repression and cruelty of Catholic Ireland: “The commission will also look at the law on incest, which criminalises vaginal sexual intercourse between […]
If you search the website of the Irish Times for the phrase “Peak Oil” you will find that it appears only once in 2019, in a motoring column, and only then as a throwaway comparison to the Chinese car industry. It is the first time the phrase has appeared in Ireland’s most august newspaper since […]
Senator Ivana Bacik has recently argued in a piece she called “The Catholic Church hasn’t gone away, you know” that what she calls a “secularist” approach to separation of Church and State would help to remedy a situation in which the Catholic Church in Ireland “influence(s) public policy” through its religious teachings, runs a “shadow […]
The poet here is Kevin Higgins, a life-long socialist activist, who has a decently profitable sideline in the kind of to-the-barricades socialist poetry that the average Irish journalist finds deeply moving. The poem itself is, at face value, a eulogy for what might have been, had Mugabe not turned into one of the most destructive […]
Fintan O’Toole is not shy about declaring what he is. His working titles are “historian, biographer, literary critic and political commentator”. To these he adds “acclaimed” columnist, adding that he writes “on Brexit for the Irish Times”, which he calls “a form of self-harm”, adding that it is also “a form of fatal attraction”. His […]
According to the generally well-informed Pat Leahy over at the Irish Times, Dublin is refusing even to engage with the British authorities on the arrangements that might be necessary in the event of a no-deal Brexit: The new British government wants to talk to Dublin about managing a no-deal exit, but Irish Ministers and officials […]
The president of Young Fine Gael has been lambasted by the media and politicians for weeks now. Is this peak hypocrisy?