AS the face of politics continues to change on a near-daily basis, you may find that your relatives and friends turn to you, a seasoned internet dweller, for explanations of terms such as ‘alt-right’, ‘ANTIFA’, and of course, ‘QAnon’. Let’s start there; how would you explain QAnon to someone who doesn’t spend their life engaging… Read more »
LEAFING through dog eared copies of thesauruses reporters are struggling to remember how many times they have used ‘catastrophic’, ‘cataclysmic’, ‘grim’, ‘decimated’, ‘disaster’ and ‘the bit in Titanic when the ship snaps in half’ to describe the recent deterioration in the capacity of the health service to treat an explosion in the number of Covid-19… Read more »
AS THE survivors of the mother and baby homes digest the immense cruelty meted out by the person who leaked parts of the mother and baby homes report to the media, a member of government well known for leaking confidential documents and receiving no punishment has assured survivors whoever leaked the report would definitely be… Read more »
UNDER pressure Minister for Health When There’s Good PR Stephen Donnelly has confirmed it is beyond tragic that no one, not a single person in NPHET, the wider healthcare system, international experts or the dog on the street ever mentioned risk of exponential growth in Covid cases if the government opened up in person dining… Read more »
SOMEONE WITHIN government or the civil service leaking details of the Mother & Baby Homes report to newspapers. The Sunday Independent publishing it. Meaning this is how survivors first learned details from the report including that 9,000 children died in mother and baby homes. The human trafficking of children by the church. For profit. The… Read more »
IMPARTING his warning with a serious tone befitting someone alerting people to an impending tsunami hitting a nearby shoreline, local man Dave Clerkin is trying to dissuade as many people as possible from sitting down to watch Christopher Nolan blockbuster ‘Tenet’ which Clerkin has taken to labeling ‘a big heap of absolute bollocks’. “Biggest load… Read more »
A PLATOON of protesters from the Irish League of Concerned Citizens are today determining how best to direct their anger at the Catholic Church, ahead of the release of what is looking like an incredibly damning report into Mother & Baby homes in Ireland. “Alright lads, placards down, we need new slogans by the close… Read more »
IRELAND’S coronavirus crisis has reached the point where even the hardest of chaws are having second thoughts about walking into a supermarket without a mask, a worrying new report has shown. Whereas tough nuts and hard bastards saw ‘no problems’ with flaunting regulations during the 2020 phase of the pandemic, worryingly high new daily figures… Read more »
IN A clear sign that American democracy remains in rude health social media company Twitter has banned Donald Trump from its website for 12 hours. Believed to be harshest punishment available to the US judiciary system for a white or orange person, the ban came after a large mob stormed Capitol Hill in Washington DC,… Read more »
ARGUABLY the most high profile celebrity pairing this side of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the entertainment world has been rocked by speculation that Kim Kardashian is to begin divorce proceedings from her husband of 6 years, 12 reality shows and 1,174 endorsement deals, Kanye West. While many presumed the final straw for Kardashian would… Read more »