The left-wing meltdown about it all has been very telling.
Revisionist history
But the bottom line, at this stage, is that Irish coverage of Boris Johnson has grown demented.
Many readers of this publication are sure to have read Fintan O’Toole’s latest piece in The Irish Times which attempted to neatly categorise disparate vaccine sceptic social groups ‘in order of purposeful malignity’.[1] According to O’Toole there are three distinct are vaccine sceptic social groups, namely egotists, paranoiacs, and fascists. O’Toole, whom I suspect did […]
The Abortion Rights Campaign has boycotted the Irish Times for being “transphobic,” suggesting, once more, that one can literally never be liberal or progressive enough to appease the Irish NGO sector. After all, if the paper of Fintan O’Toole and Una Mullally is not sufficiently on-side, who is? “Transphobia has no place in the paper […]
Come off it.
The Pandemic has been very bad news for some people – restaurateurs, publicans, students, anybody working part time in hospitality, and so on, but it has been absolutely superb news for some others. Mainly, of course, the media: Our subscriber numbers jumped by nearly 50 per cent last year to 126,000 – a great performance, […]
The below picture is copied and pasted from Pat Leahy’s report of the Dublin Bay South by-election, in the Irish Times of 28th June 2021 – that is, in the middle of the election campaign. The picture is interesting in a number of ways, not least in comparison with the actual result. Ivana Bacik received […]
Hungary, as every bien pensant knows, is beyond the Pale these days, mostly due to the decision by the Hungarian government not to facilitate the promotion of transgenderism in state schools. Of course, that is only the latest of the offences, as perceived by the establishment, to have been committed by Viktor Orban, Chief of […]
If you listened to the radio, yesterday, or read a newspaper, yesterday, then there’s a good chance you’ll have come across the horrifying news that Ireland has had a “record number” of racist incidents over the last year. There is a good chance, too, that you’ll have heard that this is entirely the fault of […]
In a comment piece for the Irish Times, the former Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone has suggested that the publication of the Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation should be used “as an opportunity to listen, confront and accept the uncomfortable realities from the not-so-distant past.” Ms Zappone also reminded readers […]
To be fair, “put us on the payroll” isn’t quite how the Irish Times Group phrased their submission to the Government’s “future of media” commission. But make no mistake, that’s exactly what the paper is asking for. Its submission, which can be read here, on the Irish Times website, calls for “a framework of financial […]