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Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Sunday Aug 21, 2022
Michael ruminates on the meaning of free speech as the guards release the 'hate crime' figures for 2021; and the government is apparently shocked and appalled to find some unknown entity has allowed Ireland's energy crisis to get this bad.
Beavis Butthead enlightened with white privilege
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leo-varadkar-fine-gael-has-won-the-argument-on-tax-9qxv6tlb3
https://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-interview-housing-budget-5843774-Aug2022/
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Sunday Aug 14, 2022
Another bleak winter appears to be coming; and the people who tell you speech is violence are closer to the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie than they perhaps realize.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/08/13/fintan-otoole-irish-society-is-about-to-experience-levels-of-energy-poverty-unknown-in-modern-times/
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/dbe48-policy-statement-on-the-importation-of-fracked-gas-published/
http://iae.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IAE_Energy_Crisis_2022.pdf
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Two peoples divided by a common language; apparently we're now basing our laws on online surveys less than 40 people bothered to fill out; prices go up and up; and the trouble with magpies.
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/abortion-in-ireland-5827270-Jul2022/
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Sunday Jul 17, 2022
Recorded instances of sexual offences and rapes have gone up dramatically, and there seems to be no solid explanation as to why; and SF continues to dominate FG and FF in the polls.
https://gript.ie/sexual-crime-rates-have-increased-by-75-since-fg-elected-in-2011/
https://data.cso.ie/product/RC
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Dutch farmers take a government proposal to seize their farms poorly; Sri Lanka was briefly a world leader in organic farming before it started to run out of food; and a weakening euro means no cheap oil for you.
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/large-energy-consuming-firms-preparing-for-gas-rationing-in-winter/
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
It's been a trying week for the ICCL; new polling shows Irish people's views on transgender people are largely incoherent; and Gary gets some posters put up.
https://gript.ie/pro-life-rally-slams-censorship-as-council-refuses-posters-advertising-event-attack-on-democracy/
https://gript.ie/county-council-reverses-ban-on-pro-life-posters/
https://gript.ie/iccl-incorrectly-claimed-they-cannot-legally-accept-donation-of-e100-or-more/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/most-oppose-trans-women-competing-in-female-sport-41809229.html
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Darragh O'Brien is right that there is a risk to social cohesion, but doesn't seem to realise the risk comes from his own Government's actions; clothing yourself in the dead to own the TERFs; Roe v Wade falls; and FF and FG combined still trail behind SF.
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Sunday Jun 19, 2022
Michael D. Higgins shows his mastery of changing the subject; asylum claims are up 700% but it's definitely not our fault; and the NGO complex goes to war with Joe Duffy.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2022/06/17/trans-equality-together-responds-to-liveline/
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/rwanda-link-rise-irish-asylum-27239846
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
Sunday Jun 12, 2022
SF continue to rise in the polls; children with disabilities continue to be an afterthought; needle spiking comes to Europe; and minimum alcohol pricing goes down in flames.
Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
New study supports idea that long COVID is psychosomatic; polls show SF is now more popular than FF and FG combined; and the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard case.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3oFRcTNHo