The push from several quarters to start tearing down statues of Irish historical figures and rename GAA clubs has come under fire from a TD who said “it’s like the Black and Tans controversy all over again”. Mattie McGrath, the independent TD from Tipperary, hit out at calls from left-wing politicians and agitators – and also […]
Give the man credit: He never shies away from the difficult jobs: The Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar has said Ireland 'definitely needs to bring in new laws around hate speech and hate crimes' and also needs an anti-racism awareness campaign. He told #2FMbreakfast such legislation 'isn't easy to introduce' due to the right to freedom of speech. […]
The latest from the never-ending talks to form a new Government, courtesy of Pat Leahy, who listens to this nonsense so the rest of us don’t have to: Talks on forming a government were continuing on Monday night with senior figures in all three parties involved admitting privately that the coming days represent a “do-or-die” […]
If it wasn’t so serious, it would be very amusing to watch politicians twist themselves into pretzels to try and make clear that they don’t approve of a massive gathering in the middle of the pandemic, without alienating their left wing supporters. Here’s Simon Harris, striking a very different tone to the tone he’d take […]
Following the news that thousands of people in Dublin had gathered to protest the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died last week in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes, the appeared to support the protesters when he sent a tweet late last night saying that “racism […]
The coronavirus in Ireland has claimed the lives of 1,650 people, a large majority of whom were those confined in nursing homes and unceremoniously left to meet their fate. For the rest of us, the last several months have been about making unprecedented personal and collective sacrifices in order to save as many lives as […]
As expected, most of the Irish media have swung in behind an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s blatant flouting of his own ‘no picnic’ rule for the Covid-19 restrictions. The Irish Times posted a helpful ‘explainer’ which explained nothing but helpfully told readers that Leo was fully complying with guidelines, which he clearly wasn’t. It was so mean of anyone […]
Leo Varadkar went on a picnic…while ordering everyone else not to have picnics. Does this expose the double standards of Ireland’s elites? Ben Scallan comments #gript #LeoVaradkar
In Gulliver’s Travels Swift describes how the great Empires of Lilliput and Blefescu had been at war for six and thirty moons over which end of a boiled egg to break before eating it. Today’s battle between the Big Distancers of the Principality of Castleknock, with the support of an array of courtiers and Doctors of […]
The lady standing at the podium was the second most senior civil servant in the Department of the Taoiseach, Elizabeth Canavan. She was there to deliver an important update on the Government’s advice to the public on the first day of the easing of the restrictions which had kept most of the country housebound for […]
Last Monday, the government briefed the public on how they were expected to behave during Phase One of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions. They urged people to be “disciplined” and specifically not to have picnics. “Please do your exercise and go home,” the assistant secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, Liz Canavan, said. “If you’re […]
When this emerged last night, there was at least the possibility that the public was being tricked by old footage from a pre-Covid summer, and that the Taoiseach was not, in fact, out yucking it up in the Phoenix Park yesterday while thousands have died in nursing homes and their families banned from attending the […]