Several weeks ago, I was speaking to a former professor of mine and we touched upon the current inability of the Irish government to pass legislation due to the non-existence of a valid Seanad. This was around the time the Irish newspapers started speculating over whether Trump would hand over power peacefully should he lose […]
Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, is a “complete scum” and a “transphobic f**k”. according to trans activists and the mob that follows them. She’s been told to “die in a hole” and that she’s a “c**t”literally thousands of times in the past two days. The abuse is personal, vindictive and pretty horrendous – and it’s […]
Assuming motives is a risky business, particularly when it comes to the hot-button issue of racism. By now, you’ve probably watched the horrible video of a white teenager being stabbed by a black teenager in Carrigaline, Co. Cork over the weekend. Although the media have so far been loathe to describe anyone involved, presumably because […]
The burdens of high office are great indeed. Yesterday, as the UK media were salivating over a hard-hitting report in the Sunday Times into mistakes made by Boris Johnson’s Government, Ireland’s flagship Sunday Newspaper was publishing this interview with Simon Harris. Behold, the standard of questioning Irish politicians can expect to face, these days: Two […]
WATCH: The media are guilty of a witch-hunt says Tim Jackson, as Cardinal Pell is found not guilty and released from prison after 400 days. #gript
We need the full truth from the media and government with regard to protective clothing, testing, the WHO China and more Ben Scallan reports
Our sympathies to the people at TheJournal.ie, who are amongst the first in the national media industry to feel the bite of the coming recession/depression. They probably won’t be the last: Digital publisher Journal Media is to close its business site Fora.ie, scale back its sports website the42.ie and cut staff pay by between 5-20 […]
Let’s take a break from Coronavirus for a moment to examine one of the most inexplicable Irish Times headlines in recent times: https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1242131251584102402 If there’s one thing the Irish Times is good at, it’s lecturing the rest of us about what words to use and what you are, and are not, allowed to say. […]
Beginning with denial and ending with acceptance, the five stages of grief proposed by Swiss-American psychologist Ellizabeth Kubler-Ross made her famous during her lifetime and even became a staple of popular culture. Sometimes one almost wonders, watching the Irish reaction to one event after another, whether she would have been tempted to slot ‘Brit-bashing’ somewhere […]
It’s been a rough few days to be a young, devastatingly handsome, Irish man, to be honest. First, they cancelled the formula one. Then they cancelled the football. Now they’ve cancelled the golf, with the Masters being called off. And now, from the Irish Times, comes the most devastating hammer blow of them all: Can […]
The British media is currently engulfed in a controversy over Boris Johnson’s adviser, Andrew Sabisky, who, it has been revealed, made a series of questionable comments on various areas of public policy in the years prior to his appointment. British writer Ben Sixsmith writes that the furore around Sabisky is overblown, and symptomatic of a […]
In our hyper-stimulated world, where all sorts of products and people are vying for our attention, we would surely be better off without this toxic relationship.