There’s Leo Varadkar, promising the public solemnly that there will be no electricity blackouts this winter. So, you all know what to do: Stop reading this, and go stock up on candles. And lighters.
On the one hand, it is perfectly understandable that Leo Varadkar’s legion of defenders – both those who are true blue Fine Gaelers, and those who are not, but who think the Tánaiste is unfairly targeted by his critics – should feel put out by the latest controversy engulfing their man. Yes, every single one […]
In all honesty, it has been a struggle to maintain any interest in the ins and outs of what Simon Coveney said, or did not say to an Oireachtas Committee investigating the Katharine Zappone fiasco. We have had the spectacle of one minister, Simon Coveney, spinning the country an obvious cock and bull story about […]
Former Minister, Katherine Zappone, held a party for 50 friends, including Leo Varadkar, in a 5 star hotel in Dublin just days before her controversial appointment to a new UN position, the Irish Independent reports. Ms Zappone hosted around 50 friends and former colleagues at a private outdoor function in one of the country’s most […]
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar wrote to four of the world’s most powerful social media companies asking them to tackle the use of their platforms for the organisation of anti-lockdown protests, and what he termed misinformation. Investigator Ken Foxe said that the Fine Gael leader sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok after protests on the […]
Una Mullally’s savage, over the top, and downright nasty attack on Fine Gael by-election candidate James Geoghegan in this week’s Irish Times should be a wakeup call for the party, but it will not be. For most of the last decade, Fine Gael has sought to win the respect, admiration, and votes, of people like […]
A priest who said that he will not be following what he called an “off the cuff” statement by an Tánaiste Leo Varadkar on cancelling Communions and Confirmations due to Covid-19 has received widespread support on social media. Fr Michael Toomey tweeted Mr Varadkar to say he was “planning to celebrate the two Confirmations in my […]
The trouble with writing about Ireland at the moment is that it is increasingly difficult to convey to the reader the full scale of the insanity that is going on, while not ending up sounding like a hysteric yourself. But nonetheless, it is important, too, to record things that are true, and here’s a statement […]
Councillor Paddy Holohan has announced his decision to leave Sinn Féin, saying he would not renew his membership of the party because he had been treated ‘highly unfairly’ in regard to an internal party investigation. He said “today is a brighter day” as he pledged to work as an Independent Councillor on South Dublin County […]
As the Brian Stanley controversy rolls on, Sinn Féin’s politically-correct liberal pandering finally catches up to them. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
An interesting email into us yesterday from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party, raised the question of why the Taoiseach and the Government appear to be persistently providing false information about the amount of money the Government sends to the EU annually. Speaking in Trinity College last week, the Taoiseach gave his usual […]