Yesterday, New Years Day, saw a small group of pro-life protestors conducting some form of silent vigil/protest outside the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, an action that provoked anger from consultant obstetrician Dr. Mary Higgins: Right here (national maternity hospital), right now 1/1/20; wonder why we need exclusion zones @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD – beneath the windows […]
Ireland has 4 living former Taoisigh – John Bruton, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen, and Enda Kenny. Last week it was revealed that the Government will spend €300,000 annually to provide them with various perks – a secretary, a car, VIP passage through airports, and that sort of thing. This has generated considerable public anger. It […]
There comes a time when you start to wonder if anyone in the Irish Government is capable of estimating the real cost of anything. If these guys told you they could re-roof your house for three thousand euros, you’d probably be wiser just to re-mortgage the house and prepare for a final bill of around […]
A few months ago, shortly after this website launched, we were one of the very few voices to stand up for Young Fine Gael President, Killian Foley-Walsh, after he and some colleagues were denounced for attending a conference in Washington D.C. held by the Young Americas Foundation. A quick reminder: “The young man in the […]
The Taoiseach was out and about this morning, giving a speech to the annual conference of the immigrant council of Ireland. Immigration has been something of a hot button of late, with controversies over direct provision erupting across the country. The Government is committed to introducing hate speech legislation to try and clamp down on […]
Leo Varadkar quoted the newly canonised John Henry Newman in the Dáil this week during a debate about future relations between Church and State. He was responding to Brendan Howlin, leader of the Labour party, and the Taoiseach quoted the famous line from Newman that he would drink to his conscience first, and the Pope […]
A fascinating proposal from Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman – I look forward to seeing the uptake in his own constituency of Dublin Bay South. Jim O’Callaghan made the proposal that families should take in asylum seekers in conversation with Fine Gael Minister David Stanton in the Dáil this morning. He suggested that families who housed […]
It’s tremendously disappointing when your heroes disappoint you, isn’t it? In this case it’s Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, “best friend” to our Taoiseach, heartthrob to feminists worldwide, and famous for objecting to sexist words like “mankind”. Trudeau is the leader of Canada’s governing Liberal Party, and, five years ago, was swept to power in […]
Boris Johnson has laid down the gauntlet to EU negotiators after promising there would be no border checkpoints on the Northern Ireland side of the Irish border.
I know we’re all donning the green jersey, ready to fight a second war, if necessary, against the hated Brits, and lining up to denounce the fluffy-haired charlatan they have chosen as their Prime Minister, but, come on, was anyone really offended by the phrase “dead in a ditch”? Apparently we were, according to the […]
An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has claimed that one of the reasons we have overruns in the health service is down to what he described as a “recruitment surge rather than the recruitment crisis.” The Taoiseach also maintained that overspending can be attributed to the fact “that extra people are hired every year beyond what is […]
Yesterday, a survey by the Sunday Independent revealed that GPs services are in crisis, with 44% of practices surveyed unable to take on any new patients. The Irish College of General Practitioners was quoted as saying a “perfect storm was brewing”. Spokesman Dr Liam Twomey, a GP in Wexford, said: “We are entering the perfect […]