Despite Taoiseach Michéal Martin urging everyone to move on from the issue, ZapponeGate (along with Cronygate and Merriongate) shows no sign of slowing down on social media. In some ways, it’s like a boil being lanced. The anger and frustration felt at the hypocrisy of the chattering classes in regard to the lockdown is evident. We […]
Alice, of Wonderland fame, said she could imagine six impossible things before breakfast. Leo Varadkar can imagine at least one when he finds himself in a tight corner even if the ‘corner’ in question is an outdoor dining area of a plush Dublin hotel. It certainly took some imagination, as well as chutzpah, to scramble together […]
There is certainly an element of “Oh, look over there!” about the mainstream Woodward/Bernstein exposé of people having the craic in the Healy Rae pub in Kilgarvan. And of course, predictably enough, the nodding donkeys have lit upon Danny Healy-Rae as an example of one of the Deplorables intent on killing us all in our […]
Perhaps An Taoiseach Micheál Martin now understands what Groucho Marx meant when he said that he would not want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. I am thinking here in the context of a dinner reportedly hosted by for former Minister, now newly appointed Special Envoy for […]
Vaccine suppliers Pfizer and Moderna have raised the prices of their COVID-19 vaccines in the contracts made with the European Union, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The newspaper said it had seen part of the new supply contracts showing a price hike for the Pfizer shot to 19.50 euros from 15.50 euros previously. The […]
“THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY”: Ann McElhinney, a native Donegal conservative filmmaker who lives in the US, explains why she wouldn’t return to Ireland.
Aontú Leader, Peadar Tóibín TD has criticised the ongoing crisis faced by the indoor dining and the hospitality sector and has raised over concerns over the long-term recovery of the sector. The Meath West TD accused the government of keeping the sector trapped in a never-ending “hospitality guessing game”. Indoor regulations are only being finalised […]
There is no doubt but that the large protests against the Government’s proposals to pass legislation requiring people to provide proof that they have been vaccinated in order to access some services, caught the establishment by surprise. Some of the biggest crowds of any protest in Covid times turned out at both the Convention Centre […]
Tech giant, YouTube, has been fined more than $100,000 by a German court over the removal of a video showing a protest against COVID-19 restrictions. The German paper Welt am Sonntag said the Higher Regional Court of Dresden ordered YouTubetp pay the hefty fine last week, with the court ruling that the platform was given the […]
I have a lovely dog but she is a bit headstrong and erratic. For nearly a year, I couldn’t take her anywhere unless she was on a lead but gradually, over time, I would let her off the lead on walks along the footpath for an increasing among of time. Bit by bit she became […]
The great puzzle about the lockdowns has been how support for the restrictions has divided along class lines. In general, low income earners, especially manual workers, oppose the lockdowns strenuously, while high income earners – the laptop class – seem to support it strenuously. This class divide, the elite versus the workers, is reflected in the […]
There was a time when humanity’s heroes were almost invariably the champions of freedom. In politics, philosophy, story-telling, and beyond, our idols were those who fought the good fight so that people could live free and in peace. It was viscerally understood, by all of us, that freedom was a good thing and that no […]