I grew up in a household where my mother, a teacher and my father, a civil servant, read The Irish Times cover to cover every single day except Sunday. When I got engaged, it was announced on the pages. My parents are now in their early seventies and part of the dwindling demographic still imbibing…
Had the Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill 2026 passed last week it would have removed the three-day wait for women seeking an abortion in this country. Thankfully, only 30 TDs voted in favour, 85 against and 36 abstained. Like the Referendum of 2024, it was assumed that pushing further on abortion would be unquestioningly seen as…
At 18 years of age, the twin girls may have been seasoned revellers or maybe they felt a bit nervous. Younger Gen Z are wary. They don’t drink much and they feel the edge in town. They know all about the feral youth who roam in gangs and can take a man down like a…
A Washington State school is under criminal investigation after a 16-year-old female wrestler called Katie Keeler was sexually assaulted by a male athlete during a wrestling match. Katie Keeler’s mother can be heard giggling over the video she is recording on her phone of her daughter’s wrestling match. She has no idea that her daughter…
The mainstream Irish media is notoriously reticent to call a spade a spade when it comes to the conflict between trans ideology and the rights and safety of women and children. In 2020, I founded my non-profit The Countess with a conservative mission statement: “We will empower the people of Ireland to discuss how the…