“Caution must be the watchword here”, we heard on RTE Radio One yesterday morning, as the nation’s beleaguered leader took to the airwaves with RTE’s own Claire Byrne to discuss, amongst other things, the great national re-opening plan. Reading that opening paragraph, you might think that it was the Taoiseach who told Claire Byrne that […]
Many Irish people will be familiar with the old English phrase to describe an atmosphere of complete chaos: “It’s Bedlam in here”. Fewer, perhaps, will be aware of where the phrase comes from. In the 1300s, London’s first hospital for the mentally unwell was opened – St. Mary’s Bethlehem hospital, better known as Bedlam. In […]
This ought to be a cardinal rule for TV hosts: never, ever, interview someone without knowing what he is going to say. Sad to say, a BBC anchor chose the wrong man to comment on the Derek Chauvin trial. True, he was black, and true, he was a former police officer. But he didn’t give […]
As a doctor, I am not usually moved to write articles, but an episode in the media this week has changed that. And my turn to penmanship has been inspired, solely, by RTÉ’s Claire Byrne, and an interview she conducted this week. She was interviewing Sam McConkey (again) who you know is an Infectious Disease […]
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 […]
Unbiased journalism, and critical inquiry is absent in reporting of lockdown protests ‘When a fallacy is left unchallenged, it becomes strengthened in the average mind as the absolute truth’. This is something the mainstream media in Ireland know only too well. Following the anti-lockdown protests in Stephen’s Green and the ensuing scramble to denounce the […]
Good news from Fine Gael, everybody: Ireland is presently coming second in a snail race: It's official: Ireland is the 2nd HIGHEST in the European Union for #Covid19 vaccinations. Thank you to all the amazing frontline workers who are making this happen. pic.twitter.com/WNKOhs0nkl — Fine Gael (@FineGael) January 14, 2021 To get to the ranking […]
Current mood: Extreme jealousy: The latest addition to Britain’s array of 24-hour news channels is to begin recruiting more than 100 journalists after completing a £60m fundraising that it claims was significantly oversubscribed. GB News, which aims to launch later this year, said on Wednesday that Sir Paul Marshall, a prominent hedge fund manager, and […]
In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards Pell. After reading The Persecution of George Pell, by Keith Windschuttle, it […]
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 […]
By now, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard the disgraceful story about rampant sexism – and borderline paedophilia – in a Carlow School. If you have been living under a rock, here’s how the Journal covered it tonight: THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have signed a petition in protest over female students at […]
This week Aontu introduced a bill seeking to criminalise media companies who allow children to access pornography. But would you be in favour of a complete ban on ALL pornography? VOTE in our Poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.