Under the Irish Government's Project Ireland 2040 the country is set to welcome one million migrants, an influx that will leave the native Irish a minority within 40 years. Is the public okay with that, asks David Craig.
Elon Musk is suing George Soros-linked NGOs for spreading 'misinformation' about the prevalence of 'hate speech' on social media to justify draconian censorship legislation, such as Ireland's hate speech bill.ch bill.
Ireland's new hate crime bill will impose the most draconian free speech restrictions we've seen anywhere in a Western liberal democracy. It‘s even worse that Scotland‘s Hate Crime and Public Order Act.
Ireland’s Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is like the Online Safety Bill on steroids. Among other things, it will create a new media commission to promote climate change hysteria.
As the UK ends its remaining Covid travel rules and restrictions, here are other countries that got there first and to where UK citizens can now travel in the normal pre-pandemic way.
We're publishing a "Postcard From Ireland" by longstanding contributor Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University. Her first visit to the home country for the first time in two years was both heartening and depressing, as she makes clear. Here is an extract: Two years of the most turmoil the world had ever known, and the Republic somehow unchanged.There were masks, yes. Oh my, were there masks. On the day before Christmas Eve, I sat in the car for a full hour-and-a-half just outside the entrance to Dunnes Stores supermarket, waiting while my sister queued outside to get in and then queued inside to get out again. I may have seen as many as 500 people as I waited, queueing outside to get in and then inside to get out again. How many went without a mask? Aside from very young children, not one. The Irish mask like no one else on earth – with the possible exception of the residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts.But staring so long at such total compliance produced a kind of optical illusion. Though there was not a single face on show, I began to imagine that there was or to forget that there was not. I began to see faces. The horror of Covid masking somehow retreated. How could this be?Nobody ...
From this weekend, Irish pubs, restaurants and other hospitality outlets can return to normal operations, and customers will not be asked for to show a digital Covid pass, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has announced.
On Saturday, the Irish Government announced that travellers from its list of 'designated states' (Ireland's 'Red List') would no longer have to quarantine for two weeks, creating pressure on Westminster to follow suit.
