The odd thing is, of course, that O’Connell’s argument that Rowling could just, well, shut up, doesn’t seem to apply in her mind to other women who also suffer abuse as a result of airing their views in public.
BEN SCALLAN: “Ireland’s political and media establishment are now having to answer questions that have never come up before about border security, and justify policies which went unchallenged for years. And it turns out they’re not very good at it.”
“This needs to be looked at.”
“It’s such an incendiary story.”
“This is in the middle of Dublin”: Gript reports from the Ashtown migrant camp at the centre of an Irish Times story this week.
The Irish Times Editorial Board has chosen to stand over this story. It should be abundantly clear from the footage released here that there are now genuine and obvious questions to be asked about the veracity of that story.
Curiouser and Curiouser.
It’s a pitiful thing, this new Ireland – at least, in the old one which Fintan decries, sermons reading feckless sinners from the altar had some substance to them.
I must confess, such conversations have always struck me as intellectually interesting, but ultimately very silly
They had him red-handed. They had his phone. They had his laptop. They had the messages to the two girls, and the naked photo that he sent of himself.
‘Victim shaming’
“Appointing itself this Minister’s cheer-leader on abortion”.