Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt Damien O’Reilly, broadcaster and farming journalist, has become one of the many people in Irish public life to be caught red-handed using ignorance while trying to appear intelligent. O’Reilly wrote last year in the Farmer’s Journal that ‘while not…

Leo’s Varadkar’s apology following the publication of the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes proved once and for all that even those who are qualified as a medical doctor can be quite unintelligent. It would appear that Varadkar never bothered reading the final report, choosing instead to repeat the…

Yet another carbuncle has been added to the corpus of Ireland’s mother and baby homes saga. In a recent judgement, the Irish High Court has ruled that a Circuit Court Judge, a Professor of Law and a Professor of history did not know the first thing about law and so ‘acted unlawfully’. I imagine the…

Irish taxpayers are being forced to pay massive a compensation bill — costing each worker an average of €355 — for supposed historic abuse that never happened. Government officials estimate that the compensation scheme will have a final cost €800 million. However, these are probably the same people who estimated that the Ryan Commission would…

Catherine Corless has put into the public domain the records of children who died at the Tuam Children’s Home but with significant omissions. Had these relevant details been included it would certainly have removed the potential from the media and others to have added their excitable and incompetent interpretation to state death records. Corless claimed…

Below are the names of the infants and children along with the cause of their death copied from their death certificates. All of these 796 deaths were certified by a medical doctor and entered on the Irish stat’s register of Births, Deaths and Marriages in accordance with the law. Some people have made out that…

Dr Julia Shaw says false memories of our past can threaten our future. As false memories can be intentionally or unintentionally implanted into people, false evidence and false confessions can be the direct result.  This can undermine the criminal justice system.  

False history has the same fingerprint worldwide. Mila Oiva Mila Oiva, as a Senior Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab at Tallinn University discusses why and, and what purposes were served by false history in Finland. Mila Oiva – “The Ancient Finnish Kings”: pseudohistory, conspiracy theories and text reuse

Article No 2 in the series of a commentary on Alternative Mother and Baby Homes Report, authored by 21 Irish legal academics and one sociologist. Exaggeration is the pillar of comedy, we can all spot it, and the resultant absurdity is so unrealistic, it causes laughter. In the area of science concerned with studying the…

Recent research conducted by the investigative historian Eugene Jordan during 2020 has found that infant mortality rates at the old Rahoon Parish in Galway city, during the 1950s, were extremely high and were multiples of the national infant mortality rate. The parish was known — for almost a century before — to have had higher…