‘The gloves are off’ writes Senator Ronan Mullen with a government that refuses to ever acknowledge concerns or admit mistakes …leaves very little room for trust Over 2.5 million viewers on X heard Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty reassure fellow chat show host Jimmy Kimmel that “this is Ireland and you can say whatever the…

We’re killing the unborn, the elderly with few controls   It is very hard to work out what the UK or Ireland’s values are now. Once Ireland was described as the land of saints and scholars, once there was a fundamental acceptance that human life was to be preserved and protected, save in the execution…

Who were the 75% that said no to the family and care referendums?   Have the government parties lost confidence in their offering and their politics? After a decade of consensus and coalition building, the overwhelming defeat of the apparent centrist position in the 2024 family and care referendums provided a bloody nose to the…

The Central Statistics Office in Dublin recently declared that Ireland’s population could reach seven million by the year 2057 under high migration projections. The population currently stands at just over five million. However, it reached approximately eight million for the whole island before the famine in 1841. Considering the size of the population before the…

“On a hill far away, stood the old rugged cross”, so begins the well-known and much-loved hymn that takes us to the shadow and the light found on and through Calvary. In this month of September, we celebrate the Feast Day of The Triumph of The Cross. It is more accurately referred to as The…

Divisive, dangerous and provocative – that’s how some in the media described American activist Charlie Kirk, after he was shot dead in Utah just days ago. “The answers he gave were astonishing!” said one Sky TV commentator, who cited his “outlandish” pro-life position and Kirk’s “dislike of abortion” – as if killing a child in…

It was hardly a great advertisement for Ireland when Pope Leo, as Bishop Robert Prevost, reported that when visiting this country he had been physically attacked in the street. This had occurred probably in 2007 (he came to Ireland twice, once in 2005 and then again two years later). “Never in my life have I…

There is a good chance you had never heard of Charlie Kirk, the young American political activist, until he was murdered in America last week while addressing students at an open-air event at a university in Utah. Only those who follow US politics very closely will have heard of him. I was somewhat aware of…

I do hate saying this as it sounds very pretentious but I need to make reference to a book I wrote. The one before the last one was called Dipping into Life. A number of people came up to me afterwards and said, ‘I love that book’ and some would go on to say, ‘I…