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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 […]
Frederick Hunt, 74, pleaded guilty in the Dublin Circuit Court this week to producing and distributing hundreds of images of child pornography. Hunt, who is a retired Irish Times employee, was also found to have carried out illegal activities on his work computer in the Irish Times building in Dublin. He pleaded guilty to seven […]
Who are the activists and the NGOs who have contributed to stirring up tensions in the past week, especially around the suggestion that bias might have motivated Garda actions leading to the death of George Nkencho? And why are so many of them funded by the hard-pressed Irish tax-payer? These people range from elected TDs […]
The Irish Times’s bad reporting on our abortion regime overlooks harm to women, the efficacy of the 3-day waiting period, and the horror of late-term abortions The Irish Times (with the honourable exception of columnist Breda O’Brien) seems determined to find no fault with our new abortion regime, other than perhaps that it does not go far […]
It is not unfair to say about Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle that she is a doctrinaire progressive left winger on almost every issue under the sun. Those of you who followed the abortion referendum, for example, will recall that she was one of the leading campaigners, in the media, for a yes vote. To […]
On Tuesday the Irish Times published an opinion piece by Professor Chris Fitzpatrick of the School of Medicine in UCD decrying the commemoration of the execution of Kevin Barry who was a medical student in UCD at the time of his death. Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Prison on November 1, 1920 having been captured […]