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 […]
Terms like ‘self-isolation, ‘social distancing’ and even ‘cocooning’ are fast becoming part of our national vocabulary. For the vast majority of people, these new practices and behaviours will be somewhere between a major and minor inconvenience. Some businesses may close-others will bounce back; but we will go on, even if it is in a radically […]
Christian persecution is all too real for the victims…
Hong Kong Free Press reports that hundreds of Hong Kongers gathered last week in memorial of 22-year-old student protestor Alex Chow Tsz-lok, who died last November after falling one storey from a car park and sustaining fatal head injuries. It is believed by some that he was trying to evade police as they attempted to […]
Left-wing extremists, including masked members of Antifa, threw a smoke bomb during an attempted attack on a free-speech rally outside the Dáil, Saturday afternoon.  At least one Antifa activist appears to have been arrested after a Garda was assaulted with a metal tripod leg during a attempted charge by left-wing extremists at the demonstration against […]
I lived in Navan in 1982. I worked on an archaeology site of all things at Randalstown near where the mines had their dumps.  It had been part of the Everard estate which grew tobacco but much longer ago had been a village on the Boyne. So in digging down into our past you might find […]
An arson attack on a pro-life journalist has been condemned by a right to life group as “menacing” and unacceptable. Right to Life UK reported that a German pro-life journalist was targeted by extreme abortion advocates because he promoted the country’s March for Life. The group Feministische Autonome Zelle  set Gunnar Schupelius’s car on fire and […]
Is Porn having a damaging effect on society? Ben Scallan comments #gript
The two teenage boys found guilty of the murder of 14-year old Ana Kriégel last year, have been sentenced. The 15 year-old referred as Boy A has been sentenced to life in detention, with a review of his sentence in 12 years. The other party to Ana’s murder, referred to as Boy B who is […]
Chilean abortion activists burn effigy of unborn child #gript