Mary Kenny
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Veteran journo, stage-struck writer still aspiring to be playwright, hat-wearer, Francophone and femme de lettres.
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Kemi Badenoch paid her way through two college degrees by working at McDonald’s. Now she’s among the top five contenders to be the next British P.M. What a brilliant personal story, and an admirable young woman.
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Bel Mooney’s 99 year old father died from a long-standing COPD, and yet Covid was put on his death cert because he’d had the test. How many statistics have been skewed this way?
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I am not a ‘transphobe’. I respect any adult individual’s decision to be as they choose. But putting youngsters on a pathway to life-changing procedures is something else. I had to rebut Uni of Limerick’s slur in a letter in today’s Irish Times.6/10.
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I have had a letter from my ophthalmology clinic eye warning about wearing face masks. Some patients have developed endophthalmitis (infection imperilling sight) because “exhaled air & bacteria funnel towards..eye area”. Masks can hurt vulnerable eyes.
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Fintan O’Toole describes Brexit as a cause for “cranks and swivel-eyed loons”. Wouldn’t democracy suggest that 52% of the voters in a referendum should have their choice respected? There’s a problem with the liberal elite: their contempt for ordinary people.
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Lady Susan Hussey, made to resign as Lady-in-Waiting, corrected royal archive details in my book "Crown and Shamrock". She was meticulous, and saved me from several errors in notes about George V and Ireland.She was too modest to be thanked in acknowledgments
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The vaccine passport is not just about vaccines. I’m jabbed and boostered but I reject the idea that a uniformed official of the state can demand: “Show me your papers.” Dangerous slope to slip down.
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This is so wrong and unjust: all based on the falsehood that sex is ‘socially constructed’. The difference between males and females is biologically based and biologically born males should not be admitted to female athletics.
Every day more males are stealing medals, team places & prize money in sport (a physical activity) that were specifically designed for females. It’s restraint of trade, loss of equal opportunity based on pure sex discrimination & utterly wrong in a fair society that doesn’t…
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Prof. Carl Heneghan on BBC Radio 4 this morning: a further lockdown would be stupid - it's just pushing the virus back to later in winter. Covid is endemic. Target protection for the vulnerable. Learn from Sweden and Germany how to manage. But don't lockdown.
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I'm 76, and I don't want to live what remains of my life span in a state of cowering fear, like Robbie Burns' mouse. I follow the regulations, but let's "carpe diem" and live each day fully, not frightened. Column in today's Irish Independent newspaper.
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Charles Walker, Conservative MP, echoes Leo Varadkar today saying that too many Covid policy-makers are in secure jobs with guaranteed incomes, and they don’t understand the poverty, despair and loss of employment of those in more precarious situations.
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In fifty years time any statue of anyone who has eaten meat will be hauled down.
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Just lost two hours of my life watching "The Banshees of Inisherin." Cruel, mean, depressing, boring. Beguiling scenery, pretty donkey, who is killed off. Yes, I get all the existential metaphors, but if this is awarded an Oscar, Hollywood really is an ass!
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Bravo to Senator McDowell for his true service to democracy - he has held power to account.
"Regardless of which side is victorious we must express our gratitude to
@SenatorMcDowell
for standing up and openly questioning government.
This is how democracy is supposed to function, he was willing to share his expertise & fight the good fight with a well-prepared argument.
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Oldsters in England today are being given jabs at the heavenly Salisbury Cathedral while the organist plays Bach and Handel. One old chap requested ‘Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire’ and he will get his request with the vaccine. Praise the Lord!
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An old friend and colleague of mine has just died. He could not be admitted to hospital for treatment because of Covid. So he died from cancer. How widespread is this?
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Georgia Meloni seems on course for a clash with Ursula von der Leyen. Who should democrats support - the first elected Italian leader for 14 years, and a working-class single mother? or a non-elected bureaucrat from a wealthy elite?
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The train companies in Britain are seeking to cut all staff from ticket offices and get rid of ticket inspectors, (and eventually, drivers.)All tickets to be bought on-line. No human interaction. Looks to me like the Unions have a case. As do passengers.
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Lung cancer referrals down 25% during Covid pandemic reports the Irish Times today. Covid, from which most people recover, is taking up all the oxygen, while cancer, which has killed five of my friends this year, is neglected. I worry far more about cancer.
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In working-class areas of England and Wales, voters have switched from Labour to Brexit in huge numbers. Yet many in Ireland still think that Brexit is about "toffs" feeling "nostalgic" for empire. Because of Fintan O'Toole influential (but wrong) analysis.
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It’s very welcome news that the Tavistock clinic has been closed by the British authorities. Its’ scandalous policy of advancing gender-change treatment for children had to be halted. This is a big medical story.
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Bravo to Mick Wallace TD for opposing Covid passports. A civil rights issue.
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There’s an old American political motto: “You don’t mess with motherhood and apple pie.” Is the dominant Irish political class about to be taught that lesson?
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I’m in the demographic where friends & contemporaries die, sadly: we are all heading for the exit. Friends have died from cancer, heart disease, strokes. Obsessive focus on Covid is, to me, disproportionate. My column in today’s Irish Independent.
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Here's my suggestion: every discussion about public policy on Covid should contain at least ONE person who isn't in a securely-paid job and/or pension, whatever the policy outcome. This might bring some much-needed perspective and balance.
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Claire Fox absolutely right on Any Questions BBCR4: it's wretched how frightened people have been made by the lockdown, and how anti-social, and scared of social engagement so many now are. Everyone treating everyone else like lepers. Inhuman. Literally.
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Matt Hancock, UK Health Min admits in The Guardian there's been considerable over-reporting of UK stats on Covid. If you've recovered from Covid in Feb & got hit by a bus in July, that's counted as a virus death! True figure 0.03% of population infected
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He’s so focused, steady and dependable. A real, grown-up legislator who scrutinises Government policy responsibly. Ireland should be thankful to have Senator McDowell - and is.
"It was a stunt that backfired": Senator Michael McDowell says he believes the Attorney-General's advice on
#Referendum2024
was leaked from "within government" to strengthen the case for the Care amendment in a "cynical move."
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The Sacré Coeur in Paris is lit up in red tonight to raise awareness of the persecution of Christians world-wide. France is a secular republic, but much more alert than Britain or Ireland to what is happening to Christians.
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France: bookshops will remain open, even in periods of lockdown ("confinement") as part of "essential" services. Now that's what I call civilised.
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A million new Irish passports issued this year. Brits are rushing to dig up an Irish granny to obtain one. Great to be popular! But a passport isn't just a flag of convenience. Acquaint yourself with Irish culture as well! My column in Irish Independent today
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Eilis O'Hanlon writes in today's Daily Telegraph that a 'toxic' Anglophobia has re-emerged in Ireland, egged on by Taoiseach Varadkar, who is more concerned to maintain his macho stand against the Brits than to consider Irish economic fallout..
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A shocking, tragic and terrible crime has been committed in Tullamore: let’s hope the specific culprit is apprehended soonest.But to deduce from this particular evil deed that Irish society, or Irishmen, are exceptionally misogynistic is surely false.
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Nigel Farage's bank account was closed by Coutts because they disliked his political views. A very sinister move. Any of us could be "de-banked" if our opinions aren't fashionable. This isn't about whether you like Farage: it's about banking authoritarianism
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Thanks to Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times for supporting me over being cancelled by Limerick University. It’s sad that this episode has damaged Limerick’s reputation.
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Andrew Doyle describes Pauline O’Reilly’s speech on the Hate Bill in the Irish Senate to every tyrannical regime’s attitude that’s ever been. Ms O’Reilly said “freedom must be restricted”: it has been re-tweeted 2 million times & internationally deplored.
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John Lloyd in Irish Times saying what I wrote previously in the Irish Independent: Fintan O'Toole's is wrong on Brits & Brexit. It's not about "nostalgia for Empire", but people rebuffing "a political system that is faceless, unresponsive & unaccountable..."
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What I applaud about Michael O'Leary is his blunt refusal to be cowed and to be made to be "nice" by RTE political correctness. No, he won't apologise for buying houses for his staff! He stands up for himself, in an era when so many fear the Wokista diktat.
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Stop defining females by their bodily functions - such as ‘menstruators’: excellent letter from Jacky Stewart in today’s Irish Independent making this point. There’s nothing wrong with the word ‘woman’. Are men to be called ‘sperm-producers’?
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French commentator Charlotte d'Ornellas asks, in connection with 50 Catholics so tragically massacred in Nigeria (and 30 wounded): "Do Black Lives not matter if they're Catholics in Africa?" She draws attention to the "media silence" over this atrocity.
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She’s a terrific speaker and what she says is compelling - both rational and warm.
MARCH 8 REFERENDUM:
Barrister Maria Steen says the proposed change to article 41.2 of the Constitution "does nothing for women, rather, it erases them".
Calling for a
#VoteNoNo
vote, she warned the proposal obliterates the word 'mother' from Constitution.
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It takes someone as brave as Brendan O'Neill to make this point. I got so much abuse for affirming biological difference that I concluded it's not worth making the point. But it is.
“It is now a speechcrime to say there are only two sexes. Five years ago it was accepted as a biological fact that you are either a man or a woman — now you will be expelled from polite society for saying that. Transgender censorship is out of control.”
Brendan O’Neill on Sky:
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Dr Martin Feeley criticises the “deliberate terrorising” of the Irish population by the authorities during lockdown. Day after day, the fear and the threats were mercilessly issued. Should RTE apologise for its daily full-on lockdown propaganda?
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Covid units closing all over Britain. Cases falling in all regions, and many areas now Covid-free. But still people wearing masks in the open air stepping into the road to avoid another person wearing a mask. People have been thoroughly intimidated.
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@SUPFORALL
Yes, I have been cancelled by Limerick University. My subject was a historical narrative of feminism and the diversity contained within the movement itself. It was not focusing on transgender issues, though it’s factual to say it divides feminism.
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Send this child to read a novel by the Franco-Polish writer Georges Perec, who wrote an entire book without the letter "e" in it!
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It's carefully explained by Minister Helen McEntee that Ireland cannot negotiate any bi-lateral agreement on its own - it must be part of the EU 27. Isn't that the very definition of lack of sovereignty? Was it for this that Pearse & Connolly died?
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To me,
@fotoole
Fintan O'Toole is completely delusional in his fixation that Brexit is about nostalgia for Empire. I know so many Brexit voters and not one among them holds that notion. But they feel strongly about democracy.
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I've had the jab this afternoon! Grateful. Delighted. (Oxford-Astra).
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Law now passed: Britain finally leaves the EU on January 31. And now, I suggest, (in The Oldie) this is the moment to become MORE European, culturally. Read more French books, know more about German philosophy and Dutch painting..Culture replaces bureaucracy.
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Excellent, direct and clear analysis of failed double Referendum by Prof Colum Kenny in today’s Sunday Independent. He spells it out: the voters spotted “bullshit” from the Establishment. (Yes, he’s my cousin - proud to say so.)
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Senator Michael McDowell praised by Lorraine Courtney in today’s Irish Independent for his intelligent opposition to the disastrous Hate Crime Bill. I sense real public momentum moving against this ill-framed law, designed to intimidate freedom of speech
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Ireland owes her status as a sovereign nation to men and women who were nationalists. Why does Leo Varadkar disparage nationalism when he owes his position to that legacy? Plus: the exquisite religious art of Raphael. My column in The Irish Catholic weekly.
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Agree or disagree with him, he took a stand. And that’s brave. And principled. To defend what you believe is right.
Happy Christmas
#EnochBurke
freed prisoner of conscience
@joeliveline
@PatKennyNT
@MaryKenny4
@TheCountessIE
”Our lives begin to end the day we become SILENT about things that matter” Rev Martin Luther King Jr.
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The words 'mother' and 'woman' have been removed from at least 7 pieces of Irish legislation concerning females. Women are now 'people with periods' etc. Wokery now totally in control of Irish political life. Excellent letters in today's Irish Times!
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All of these corporate entities urged a "Yes/yes" vote, but the people still exercised democratic independence! Proud of the independent minds of the Irish nation!
Exactly how much money are these scammers getting ?
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@guyverhofstadt
Poor Hungary. Valiant in Europe's defence, crushed by the Soviets, and now patronisingly scolded by Guy Verhofstadt. Did Belgium do so much, historically, for Europe as Hungary has done?
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Matthew Parris has surely let the cat out of the euthanasia bag. Yes, old people will be railroaded into killing themselves because they’re a burden on society, and a good thing too, he suggests. Oldsters are a drag on the economy anyway. Brutally honest?
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A masterclass in waffle!
WHITE IRISH PRIVILEGE: Education Minister Norma Foley is asked about the new draft SPHE curriculum, which urges students to recognise their “privileged status” as a white person, a male, or an Irish person.
Question by
@Ben_Scallan
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#gript
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The Irish misery-memoir is not the whole picture of Ireland’s past: the Dublin of my youth was a centre of culture, arts, theatre, dancing, French & Italian cinema, quayside bookshops, & a safe city. Some reflections on turning 80! Irish Independent today.
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Heartening to see confident young mothers affirm their right to be acknowledged - not to be erased from the Irish Constitution. Impressive young woman in the spirit of Mna na hEireann.
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Fintan O’Toole blames the ugly scenes in Dublin on - yes, you’ve guessed it - the Catholic church. The rioters, he writes, are the same as old lobbies like ‘Christian Front’, and ‘Maria Duce’. (The latter’s aim was to crown Our Lady as Ireland’s leader.)
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Prof. Sunetra Gupta, epidemiologist at Oxford Uni, said on Spectator TV this evening that "lockdown simply delays things": that we should "benchmark" Covid against flu & pneumonia (1000 pneumonia deaths weekly in UK) and measure deaths, not ambiguous "cases"
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The family referendum, if passed, could break up farms, writes Michael McDowell in today’s Irish Independent Farming supplement (20/02). And how might ‘durable relationship’ affect wills? Read this before voting!
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@Berlinnaeus
Pretty cheap to use a tragic sepsis death in pregnancy to weaponise a referendum formula which is largely symbolic.
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Ramadan has now evidently overtaken Lent in public awareness - “Happy Ramadan” signs proliferate. Does this mean that Islam is now replacing Christian culture, as French intellectuals warn? Or are Christians just too lax to bother? My column, IrishIndependent
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Every feminist should see the film ‘1917’ - a vivid and harrowing illumination that all men did not benefit from ‘white male privilege’ or ‘patriarchal’ dominance. An illumination of what men have suffered.
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A Slovakian man is now the suspect in the brutal murder of Ashling Murphy. We should make no comment until the case is concluded. But this development may halt the narrative that Irish society and Irishmen are uniquely misogynistic.
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"I won't abandon the DUP because I think they are the guardians of the United Kingdom." Jacob Rees-Mogg. I still relish the historical irony that the most prominent Roman Catholic MP is the most prominent defender of Paisley's party. Group hug?
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About three per cent of the British population is black. But about 37% of adverts on UK TV features black people, writes Patrick West in his Spiked column. This is not an issue of race, but of dishonesty by corporate capitalism. Asians are almost invisible!
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John Banville in the Sunday Telegraph today says the Catholic church is "evil" and "should be abolished". Someone should tell him that the abolition of the faith was tried before - called the Penal Laws. Many Irish people were subjected to the harsh outcome.
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What really worries me about further Covid restrictions is the impact on the cognitive powers of older people. Oldsters are more prone to dementia with a lack of social interaction. I’m noticing cognitive deterioration among older people already.
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Ryan Tubridy is a talented broadcaster and perhaps he will now be a better one when he comes back on RTE airwaves: his most annoying tone was sanctimoniousness, the preachy way he instructed us to virtuous behaviour, and perhaps that will now be dropped.
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Was at an eye hospital yesterday for a vision scan (duly grateful). Before sitting down, the nurse cleaned & disinfected the chair. "Am I really at risk of catching Covid through my backside, fully clothed?" I asked. "No - but we have to do it," she replied.
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'Real men are ditching DIY to talk about their feelings.' (Daily Mail report.)Please no! Please keep with the handyman skills! I don't want to hear about your 'feelings' - I want the boiler fixed!
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In a way, I think it’s tragic that the Labour party has lost Hartlepool so decisively. They are utterly out of touch with grassroots and working class folk, completely taken over by wokesters and urban graduate types.
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Frank Field was perhaps the last representative of old Labour: cared about the poor, supported the family, honoured the Christianity which had been the bedrock of old Labour’s values and striving for dignity of working people. A very decent guy.
Sad news about the death of Frank Field. He was a kind man who was interested in people - whether they were ‘important’ or not. I always thought he had this look in his eyes that gave you the impression he was just about to tell a really funny joke.
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@MaryMcAuliffe4
I respect anyone’s point of view, but please allow me the entitlement not to be denounced by anonymous sources. These are the tactics of ‘The Valley of the Squinting Windows’ and it’s disappointing when an academic becomes an advocate of such approaches.
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King Charles has chosen a fish, and nature symbols, for his new coins. Actually, the Irish Free State got there first! Nearly 100 years ago our beautiful nature-related Irish coins appeared: the fish, the horse, the hare.. W.B.Yeats headed the design team.
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Seems to me there's a cultural clash between the British and the Continentals on the N.Ireland protocol. The Brits are pragmatic: "If it's not working, let's try amending the system". Code Napoleon tradition is "this is the formula - stay within it."
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Dr Brendan Kelly, leading Irish psychiatrist tells the FT today that cannabis is clearly linked to mental illness. So many patients with schizophrenia had used cannabis. Legalise if you like, he says, but inform public of serious mental dangers.
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Saying that "Northern Ireland is as British as Somerset" is just silly. Somerset hasn't elected seven Sinn Fein MPs. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but it is also geographically part of Ireland: cope with ambiguity.
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Andrew Marr has coined a very apt expression: "social apartheid". As between those who have gardens and the many who are locked up in enclosed apartments. So Lambeth locks up the only park available to poorer people in their area. Deplorable.
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@SarahCGeraghty
If Ireland were ever to become a police state, it would become a very chatty kind of police state, with a lot of "and how is the Mammy?" by the enforcers!
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The moment Leo Varadkar lost the election: when he called people exercising their conscience ‘backwoodsmen’. Because that’s insulting voters who hold similar ‘backwoodsmen’ views. Woeful emotional intelligence.
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80% of the French people think France is in decline (Luc Ferry in Le Figaro). There is also a perception that the west no longer takes pride in western civilisation. This is perilous, psychologically. As individuals need some self-worth, so do nations.
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Ireland used to make shoes from cattle-hide; now Irish hides exported and all leather shoes imported. Ireland stopped producing sugar & now imports it. Ireland imports all flour for bread. Very good letter from Elizabeth Cullen in Irish Times on energy waste.
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Can I just put it on the record: most men I have ever worked with have been helpful, encouraging, collegial and supportive of women. This narrative that the working world of media was full of Harvey Weinsteins doesn’t at all accord with my experience.
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The phrase “Ladies & Gentlemen” was introduced as a progressive move to be more inclusive of women. Now it’s being abolished on airlines as not inclusive enough. What next? A rewriting of Ireland’s foundational document starting: “Irishmen & Irishwomen...”?
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Very sad for Irish hospitality and Irish social (and economic) life that new restrictions are being imposed in Ireland. Is it really necessary?
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Stella O’Malley, professional psychologist, says that we must return to normal life, including hugging, or mental health will be damaged. In today’s Irish Independent.
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Frank Coughlan in the Irish Indo and Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times have strong, eloquent commentaries today about “Up the ‘Ra”. These need publishing in America, the source of Provo wealth, and now immense Sinn Fein riches.
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Why can't Ireland take credit for itself? Why does the Irish government have to emphasise it was the EU which brought about any development? It's a kind of "white saviour complex" - oh look, we were awful left to ourselves, but Brussels rescued us!
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A shocking letter from a GP, Dr Marcus de Brun, in today's Irish Independent: Irish doctors are being paid more to facilitate abortion than to provide contraception or attend to a patient giving birth. Maternal care less valued than abortion in Ireland now.
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I have always seen the benefits of immigration: but there are costs & challenges too. People must be able to discuss this without being called “fascists” or “far Right”. Populists arise when liberals shrink from honest discourse. My Irish Independent column.
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On Holocaust Memorial day, may I honour the memory of the Irish songstress Delia Murphy, who hid Jewish refugees at the Irish Embassy in Rome - and told the political authorities to 'feck off' when they reprimanded her.
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I agree that kids shouldn’t be forced into ‘gender stereotypes’ - that ‘blue for a boy, pink for a girl’ silly stuff. But that’s no reason to erase words like ‘mother’ from the official language.Nature usually prevails! My column in the Irish Independent.
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Anyone voting in next month’s Irish Referendum on marriage and ‘durable relationships’ MUST read Sarah Carey’s magisterial piece in today’s Irish Independent (3.02) The definition of ‘durable’ is dodgy, a threat both to contractual stability - and liberty.
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