Irish News, Politics, Culture
The recent announcements by the FG-Lab coalition government that is to “re-adjust” teacher-to-pupil numbers in classrooms acroos the country has drawn a groundswell of condemnation, notContinue Reading
The Irish Times carries a report on the protests by various Irish language organisations to the latest moves by the Fine Gael-Labour coalition governmentContinue Reading
The Irish Independent’s pet “historian”, John Paul McCarthy, has written a lengthy article on some of the behind-the-scenes events relating to theContinue Reading
There is a letter in The Irish Times from a host of Irish civil rights campaigners, journalists, businesspeople, academics and student leaders protesting theContinue Reading
Another entry for my “Only In Ireland” series, this time thanks to Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes TD, with an entirelyContinue Reading
If the message hasn’t been driven home that the Irish language and those who speak it are at the topContinue Reading
Here is another entry for my occasional “Only In Ireland” series. Following on from the slow drip of revelations thatContinue Reading
The outrage sparked by the Fine Gael-Labour government’s controversial decision to abolish the office of An Coimisinéir Teanga continues to grow.Continue Reading
Two weeks ago I predicted that the Fine Gael led coalition government would use a review of the Official Languages Act of 2003 to reverse aContinue Reading
The wonderful Irish Election Literature blog does it again with this Fine Gael election poster from 1938 protesting against “Migrants”Continue Reading
The wonderful Irish Election Literature blog carries a 1938 anti-Fianna Fáil leaflet from the Irish Labour Party, that also targetsContinue Reading
Poor old Kevin Myers is at it again: propagating his “race theory” of Irish politics (and society) thanks to theContinue Reading
Way back in the 1960s a question was famously asked: “Is Fine Gael really Irish?” It has subsequently becomeContinue Reading
So, things are hotting up in the oul presidential to-an’-fro as that granddaddy of Irish media personalities, Gay “The Poppy”Continue Reading
The Cedar Lounge Revolution carries news on a Sunday Times poll that places Sinn Féin a percentage point ahead ofContinue Reading
Is the West’s decline caused by ‘contagion of homosexuality’? So asks the headline in an article written by Benjamin Harnwell,Continue Reading
The campaign to see Dana Rosemary Scallon added to the list of candidates for the office of Uachtarán na hÉireann seems to be gatheringContinue Reading
Well, it seems my most recent article on Fine Goirm’s Gael’s presidential hopeful Gay Mitchell has unleashed something ofContinue Reading
With the departure of Senator David Norris from the electoral field, it’s time to have another look at Fine Gael’sContinue Reading
News from the Irish Independent on former An Taoiseach na Chófra, Bertie Ahern, and his flourishing new career out of office (and Ireland): ‘FORMERContinue Reading
So you think the vulgar excesses and rank commercialism of the Celtic Tiger, which brought this nation to the point of collapse, is well andContinue Reading
You gotta love Enda ‘Paddy‘ Kenny. Sure, without him wouldn’t we still be living with a government of corrupt, lying, money-grabbing shysters, out to doContinue Reading
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