A Catholic priest who stood with members of his flock to defend a statue of a saint in St Louis, Missouri, was shouted down and told the crowd was coming for the cathedral next. Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, endeavoured to speak to the crowd who had come to […]
At a time when some appear intent on creating a mythological past for the Irish people, physical remembrances of our history have come under threat. Moore Street, site of the last armed confrontation of the 1916 Rising was once a vibrant street in the heart of the city where a large proportion of Dubs did their […]
The newest nation on earth – and the left-wing hope of a new progressive way of peace, justice and racial harmony – lasted about 4 seconds before its liberating founders rejected most of the core tenets of anti-Trumpism. First thing on the agenda for this new nation was a wall (re-termed light fencing by friendly […]
With the cancel culture in full throttle, attention turned in recent days (again) to comedians as they were hauled over the coals for historical misdemeanours. Little Britain was one of the first to feel the impact, being pulled from Netflix, BBC iPlayer and BritBox. The Fawlty Towers episode The Germans has been pulled from UKTV […]
On Tuesday last week hundreds of thousands of people witnessed an elderly black gentleman bleed to death on a St. Louis sidewalk. David Dorn, who was buried yesterday, was a 77 year old retired police captain who was shot in the chest by a looter whom he interrupted stealing a television from a pawn shop. Dorn, […]
‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’. The man or woman may be statesmanlike,out of their depth or just opportunistic. The Covid crisis has tested leadership around the world and the jury is still more or less out on who best rose to the challenge because the entity we were dealing with is still far from […]
Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]
There have been many comparisons made between the riots that began in the United States on May 25 and past outbreaks of underclass destruction. Los Angeles 1992 is most often referred to but that was very much localized and did not spread to any significant extent to other cities, despite 1992 having been one of […]
I have been out with the protesters, marched with them, prayed with them on street corners, and at what’s left of the heart-wrenching auction block that once “sold” enslaved people in Fredericksburg. I’ve participated in the very moving almost 9 minute silent hand raising demonstration a few times, representing the mind-blowing amount of time that […]
If you can remember that long ago, the only protesters defying Covid-19 lockdowns in the United States were small crowds of roughnecks from flyover country waving flags and brandishing placards at State capitals. Nonetheless, petty incidents like this still outraged bioethicists and public health experts. Writing in PennLive, a Pennsylvania blog, four of them, including the […]
US President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that Antifa will be labelled a terrorist organisation, following their involvement in the nationwide riots and vandalism seen in America. One Social Democrats TD responded in an interesting way. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
Here are a collection of clips that you will not see, under any circumstances, on RTE, or in the Irish Times, or in the Independent, or on the Journal, where the only story of the American protests is that it’s a peaceful demonstration by black Americans against police brutality. It’s not. Rioters smashed up cars […]