Hooked on History—But Fed on Lies The Irish have a peculiar weakness for historical myths. So many falsehoods are repeated uncritically in the media that…
The Truth – Tuam Mother and Baby Home
Catherine Corless along with her supporters have been trying to spread misinformation that all these bodies belonged to the workhouse era, this is false.
The Lost Children – The Lost Truth
The Tuam story is so detached from its evidential foundations that, presented as fiction, it would be dismissed as implausible.
Gript- Resignation of John McGuirk
Ireland’s mainstream media have long viewed Gript with hostility, resenting its challenges to their consensus and its habit of exposing uncomfortable stories. Now that a split has opened within Gript, some in the establishment seem quietly pleased, as though internal strain somehow vindicates their own complacency.
The TG4 Leprechauns Fiddle Irish History
Last night, TG4 once again set about rewiring Irish history, offering up a version of the past shaped less by scholarship than by a kind…
O’Toole washes his Hog with Irish Women
Fintan O’Toole, Ireland’s most professionally aggrieved commentator, chief gaslighter of the Irish, once produced a list of things an Irish woman was allegedly forbidden to…
Road Safety – Deadly Incompetence
If the Irish Road Safety Authority, RSA, oversaw aviation safety, everyone would be afraid to fly. Ireland has the most dangerous road network in Europe,…
CLUSTERFUCK – the Irish Civil Service
The term “clusterfuck” was not coined to describe the Irish civil service — but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was. I am sickened by…
Evidence & Academic Blunders
Professor Thomas Garavan of University College Cork, told the Irish Examiner that “I would have expected more evidence-based analyses supported by historical evidence, greater objectivity,…
LIAM NEESON Nominated for Major TUAM Award
Liam Neeson, though raised a Catholic, proudly proclaims his admiration for Ballymena’s most celebrated sectarian mouthpiece—the thunderous bigot Reverend Ian Paisley. Paisley, whose fire-and-brimstone tirades…
