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…
Category: Hall of Shame
In motorsport, there’s an old saying: engage brain before opening mouth. It’s a pity this wisdom hasn’t made its way into the skulls of our politicians and public figures. Time and again, they lurch onto microphones or social media with the intellectual coordination of a stalled engine, blurting out half-baked soundbites that reveal more ignorance than insight. Whether it’s a clumsy distortion of history, a tone-deaf comment on national tragedy, or a self-congratulatory boast that unravels under the faintest scrutiny, their statements betray an almost heroic determination to speak first and think later. If only public office came with a pit crew to check for leaks before they race onto the airwaves.
The Inaugural Matthew Hopkins Award
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Celebrating Excellence in Unfounded Accusation, Moral Panic, and Outrage-Based Achievement Do you know someone who has turned wild speculation into an art form?A…
Leo Varadkar & His Lies
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…
Post-Truth Era Afflicts Irish Universities
The Post-Truth Era hit Ireland earlier than most other nations. Women’s studies at the universities provided a fertile breeding ground for false histories. In no…
Government Snobs Increase the Poverty Penalty
In the same week when medics expressed concern about the high consumption of cannabis and its negative health effects on Ireland’s young people, the Irish…
‘History cannot be a dehumanised, reductive, simplistic or self-serving narrative’
The gross hypocrisy of An Taoiseach Micheál Martin might not be immediately discernible from his the quote below, spoken at an event to launch the…
The Rubberbandits poke Ignorant Fun.
Unlike the Rubberbandits, the ancient Greeks has brains and put them to use trying to figure out the world and the universe. One of their…
The Rubberbandits and Blind Wet Fartage!
Isn’t it amazing how Blindboy, who celebrates or at least draws attention to Limerick’s reputation for criminality, gets miffed when Forbes believes the Rubberbandits! Blind…
Irish Self Loathing
More bloat has been added to the already distended corpus of Irish literature dedicated to Irish self-loathing. It is a genre of racist literature mostly…
The Perverse Morality of Micheál Martin – Taoiseach sneers at his mother.
During the second decade of the twenty-first century, under the rule of the Taoiseach/Prime minister Micheál Martin, children born to a cohort of mothers suffer…