In general, sport ought not to be used to further political aims. In a democracy, there are numerous ways in which a person can express their views without using a public platform that has nothing to do with politics or campaigning – such as playing football, or golf or swimming or whatever. There is no need […]
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 […]
Social Democrat election candidate, progressive activist, and podcaster Linda Hayden has issued an apology following the discovery of divisive tweets she had sent. Speaking of the tweets Hayden said that “I wasn’t always a good person…I was an asshole who had no exposure to people of colour or the Travelling community”, but added she was […]
An internal whistle-blower in the Coca-Cola company revealed that employees were told to “Try to be less white” in what they said was a required training course. Screen shots of an online employee training course on “Racism and Confronting Racism” show 4 slides which critics say are actually racism in the guise of an anti-racism […]
If you are one of the ‘too Irish’ citizens of this “ethnostate” then perhaps you might do well to give the Irish National Integration Conference a miss. It is running all week from Monday to Thursday and the organisers in the Immigrant Council of Ireland have been kind enough to place the proceedings on their site if […]
Campbell had written on Facebook that he could not imagine the BBC allowing an all-white line-up on Songs of Praise.
We have incitement to hatred legislation in Ireland. If what has happened in the past few days is not incitement to hatred, then what is? When you tell a community that they are victims of institutional racism, without any evidence; when you tell a community that one of their members was murdered, without any evidence; […]
This weekend, as has become completely normal over the space of the past few months, the players of Millwall and Derby County, prior to kickoff in their Sky Bet Championship game, took a knee in the middle of the field, to protest racism. And the crowd, of just 2,000 supporters, booed them. The sporting media, […]
There is, in Ireland, a law against stealing cars. If you steal someone’s car, you are liable to be arrested, prosecuted, and, if convicted, either fined or sent to prison. If the Gardai recover the car you stole, it will be returned to its original owner. So imagine for a moment how people might react […]
Coronavirus running wild, economy sputtering to a halt, no-deal Brexit coming down the tracks, and, at last count, six thousand and seventy-seven homeless people in the country. And the Government’s hot new idea? Counting the skin colour of lecturers in Irish Universities to make sure they’re “diverse” enough: IT WILL BE compulsory for third-level institutions […]
Jessica Krug, is her name, and she’s spent basically her whole adult life pretending to be a black woman when, in fact, she was just, well, overly fond of the old sun-beds. Here’s her apology, which to be honest, is much more entertaining than the story itself: To an escalating degree over my adult life, […]
For years the left has prided itself on being on the side of inclusion and equality for everyone, and has attacked the right for engaging in racism, xenophobia and bigotry for bringing attention to issues such as immigration and national identity and pursuing policies that put their own citizens first. Yet there is one type […]