Left wing protests were in fact expressions of democracy, of the will of the people, in the face of a democratic deficit. Last week’s protest was driven by ethnonationalism and transphobia imported, ironically, from Britain. They’re not the same.
SIPO has opened an inquiry into undeclared donations received by taoiseach Leo Varadkar after it emerged he misled the commission during a 2019 probe.
Twenty years ago then taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil that after the 11 September attacks, “The world had entered into a new and dangerous era."
Three memories from my time playing Gaelic football as a child.
'I get it how I live it / I live it how I get it' - Rihanna
I don’t think Limerick is “looking into the abyss as a city” unless the state gives more funding to its local gardaí.
We’re not supposed to talk about blood.
“Not far right, just right so far,” is what they say, the Irish ethnonationalists, who seem comfortable with that term, a word that most associate with the far right of the political spectrum.
Virgilio Fernández del Real, at almost 100 years old, knew how to deal with fascists.
I don’t care about decency. At least not the decency we speak of when it comes to elected officials nor the standards we use to measure their moral probity. And I don’t care for Micheál Decency Martin’s time as taoiseach.
‘To destroy the concept of motherhood: that is revolutionary.’ - Simone de Beauvoir
Let’s emancipate ourselves from political correctness.