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…
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.
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…
The Imprisoned Mothers Myth – Does Truth Matter?
Sinn Féin has suddenly dropped its false claims of deliberate starvation of children and women at Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes but insist that women…
Michael McDowell – the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland
Michael McDowell assumed his role as the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland. The country’s biggest eejit had to apologise for likening Richard Bruton to the…