THE keynote speaker for Kildare Chamber’s President’s Luncheon has been announced as the CEO of IDA Ireland Michael Lohan. The event is to take place on Tuesday…
Groups of extreme nationalists, white supremacists, religious fundamentalists, anti-vaccine campaigners and COVID denialists come together around opposition to immigration and to a “weak” and “woke” establishment in fact only magnifying the anti-migrant rhetoric of that same establishment.
It is hard not to see The Seven Ages of Noël Browne (RTÉ 1) as a tragedy, not just for Noël Browne, but for the whole country. Browne wasn’t ahead of his time, he was of his time. It was Ireland that was lagging behind, somewhere in 18th century Spain, with its darkness and its love of punishment. How much suffering we could have avoided if we had listened to him.