24 July 2023
Proud of liberalism; hostile to hate
THE CASE for gay rights, pioneered in the 1980s in this country by David Norris through the courts and...
24 July 2023
Did minister approve visa for Chinese investor that benefited close political ally?
Charity founded by close ally of Helen McEntee, Minister for Justice, obtained €1.6 million from discredited...
24 July 2023
Church redress deal needs rethink
The State, which has been reimbursed only €242m of the €1.5bn it has paid out, should now take only lands...
24 July 2023
DeliverOhOh
The liveried bicyclists who zip past, delivering fast food, are probably working illegally.
24 July 2023
Garda reject sexual complaint against Judge James O’Connor
Revised complaint had claimed serious new information had arisen — so the woman is contemplating litigating...
24 July 2023
Local elections herald return of Assembly
Revised complaint had claimed serious new information had arisen — so the woman is contemplating litigating...
24 July 2023
Charlemont Charlatanism
Dublin’s proposed Metro is an unplanned mistake, facilitated by egregious procedural and consultation...
24 July 2023
The bar, Fine Gael in wigs?
Dublin’s proposed Metro is an unplanned mistake, facilitated by egregious procedural and consultation...
23 July 2023
The most vicious of them all
Scappaticci, an IRA assassination unit, MI5, the murder of a Westminster MP and Kincora’s stench of death
23 July 2023
Lest we forget
Church and State ruined many lives, with their prejudices and institutions, including those of people...
23 July 2023
Jarvey for Garvey
Drogheda and Louth Councils disgrace themselves by finding spurious legal reasons not to consider rescinding...
23 July 2023
Aborti-on and on
Five Years after the repeal of the 8th Amendment, abortion is still not universally available in the...
23 July 2023
Fifty years of omerta on Ireland’s biggest company
CRH systemically flouts competition and company law with impunity.
23 July 2023
Time is DUP
History shows while DUP remains the dominant political expression of unionism this community will never...
23 July 2023
Time, after fifty years, for Justice and Truthon Sallins
Remembering the securocrat takeover of the State in the 1970s.
23 July 2023
The Niall File
Driving the recent trending of hashtag Niall Collins since the Ditch released their latest hit.
23 July 2023
O, Malachy!
Malachy O’ is always busy on Twitter but may have bitten off more than he or she can chew
23 July 2023
Voting with their foetuses
After a century of breath-taking technological progress the devil, in the form of climate and ecological...
23 July 2023
Debate, but without hatred
Offensive people can still be offensive, and offended people still offended. However, when free speech...
23 July 2023
Dubliners are West Britons
Dublin’s history is that of these islands not this country
23 July 2023
Dublin City, pee-stained and joyless
Replace CEO with directly elected mayor charged with monitoring and improving quality of life
23 July 2023
Hail the new non-print media Regulator
Coimisiún na Meán: not to be confused with the de-commissioned Media Commission whose report it is implementing
21 July 2023
Senior Hurling
Dermot McLaughlin mismanaged Temple Bar and, facilitated by the uncontrolled Arts Council which never...
21 July 2023
Tubridy, Tigger no more
Despite great broadcasting talent, Tubridy never challenged power and in the end lost his bounciness...
21 July 2023
From the Temple of Bars to Listowel Writers Week
Dermot McLaughlin mismanaged Temple Bar and, facilitated by the uncontrolled Arts Council which never...
21 July 2023
Dialogue with Arendt, Popper and Orwell suggests ethical eco-socialism
Marion Kelly reviews ‘Total State: Totalitarianism and how we can resist it’ by Paul O’Brien, Eastwood...
21 July 2023
Chafing at Shaffrey Associates
it’s not just lawyers and accountants who run the world
21 July 2023
Consistency and speed to the detriment of Quality and Sustainability
The hands of former Attorney General Paul Gallagher and of the property industry are all over the Planning...
21 July 2023
Between allegedly progressive reform and solidarity
France finds another pot-bangers’ crisis
21 July 2023
Neutrality Neuroses
A conceptual look at the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy
21 July 2023
The hypocrisy of US and UK war criminality
Yes, Putin and his henchmen should be prosecuted for war crimes. So should those who led the invasion...
21 July 2023
A year after Roe was overthrown, lessons from Trump’s Supreme Court for Ireland’s
So far, manifestations of difficulty include an insidious marginal judicial interest in historicism and...
21 July 2023
VILLAGE IDIOT JULY-AUGUST RYAN TUBRIDY
VILLAGE IDIOT
JULY-AUGUST
RYAN TUBRIDY
Privileged scion of Fianna Fáil Royalty, Tubridy never —
unlike...
