Anyone who knows anything about the Titanic disaster will be familiar with the phrase “women and children first” – also known as the Birkenhead Drill. Today we’re all quite familiar with this concept – it was, obviously, a code of conduct from the 19th century onward for maritime disasters. It was expected that, if lifeboats […]
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Labour’s Education spokesman, has admitted that masks are “very detrimental” to children – while advocating for their continued use. We need a nationwide manhunt for “the plot,” which has quite evidently been lost. The bizarre comments were made during a Prime Time segment on RTÉ One this week, with Ó Ríordáin urging […]
The Welsh government is offering every 18-year-old in Wales who has left their parents’ care £19,200 per year (almost €23,000) as a “basic income” scheme – whether they work or not. The scheme will be open to around 500 people as a trial, and will be doled out in monthly payments of £1,600 (€1,909). Individuals […]
Ex-UK Prime Minister and former Labour leader Tony Blair has said that anyone who is willingly unvaccinated at this point is “an idiot.” “Frankly, if you’re not vaccinated at the moment, and you’re eligible, and you’ve got no health reason for not being vaccinated, you’re not just irresponsible – you’re an idiot,” he said. Tony […]
“You could not make it up,” Danny Healy-Rae TD said on the Labour Party’s proposed carbon footprint labelling on food, dubbing the idea a “lunatic” proposal. The comments were made yesterday in the Dáil during a debate on the policy and Ireland’s carbon emissions. Danny Healy-Rae on Labour's proposal to mandate labelling of products with […]
Senator Sharon Keoghan rightly called them out for what she described as their hypocrisy.
One of the metrics that charted the improvement in working people’s lives over the past century or more was the increase in home ownership. From a situation where most people lived in rented or otherwise non private accommodation, home ownership rose steadily in the western democracies to a situation where most people in most countries […]
On Thursday, the good people of one of Ireland’s wealthiest constituencies, and one of its most liberal, will go to the polls to select a replacement TD, after Fine Gael’s Eoghan Murphy decided – quite rationally – that he had just about had enough of the carry on in Leinster House. In a constituency that […]
Watch the whole video here, so you can be sure that we’re not being unfair to Aodhán O’Riordáin, Labour TD, and, apparently, staunch opponent of owning your own home: During today's debate @AodhanORiordain raised the issue of changing the way we view housing and put a bigger emphasis on creating diverse communities creating a better […]
The Labour Party’s new policy is a new policy, technically speaking. But it is not a new idea. It is, in fact, almost 50 years old and was first proposed in the Kenny Report of 1973. The report is so old, in fact, that its author, Justice John Kenny, has been dead since 1987. The […]
The headline above is entirely accurate, and, at the same time, a little misleading. You might think, to read it, that the various main party candidates in the Dublin Bay South bye-election were engaged in a war over the legality of abortion, with one or two expressing a pro-choice view, and one or two dissenting. […]
Yesterday Leinster House hosted yet another festival of virtue signalling or what was billed as a debate on the Labour Party’s proposal to pursue a “national aggressive suppression strategy” to bring about Zero Covid. This is something many experts believe is impossible – and in any event is that not what the much heralded vaccine […]