Israeli-American plan seems intended to kill off any hope of a two-state solution by deporting population of Gaza
Some American Christian fundamentalists fervently believe and even hope that we are living in End Times and that the second coming of Jesus is nearly upon us and will come in the context of the coming battle of Armageddon, believed to be located at Meggido. All this was recently described in a TV documentary entitled […]
Folly of abolishing bedsits only to promote co-living is now becoming clear
A letter published in this newspaper yesterday reminded me of the decision, made by the then-housing department in 2009, to ban bedsits with effect from 2013. The letter, from Enid O’Dowd, outlined a decision of a private landlord to sell a house he owns in Rathgar, south Dublin. This house has, up to now, been let in four […]
The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible
Whether or not the Islamic Republic of Iran politically implodes in the aftermath of the American-Israeli aerial onslaught, and regardless of whether there is an uneasy truce or phoney war between the participants, a far greater issue confronts the Continent of Europe – namely what will become of Putin’s ongoing war against a sovereign UN […]
There is a way to unblock Ireland’s infrastructural logjam
Listening to Sean O’Driscoll, chairman of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), and member of the Government’s infrastructure taskforce, interviewed recently raised my hopes for a dawning realisation at Government level of the infrastructural crisis we face. Our administrative and legal procedures simply cannot overcome or unlock the logjam in time to prevent very serious damage […]
Trump is trying to “Make America Hate Again”
Back in my youth we were taught in Latin class about the problems faced by Rome because of neighbouring wetlands known as the Pontine Marshes. Although Romans did not fully understand how malaria infected humans, they connected the marshes with illness and death. Their combined engineering skills failed to drain the marshes and it was […]
EU cannot ignore what’s happening in Poland and The Netherlands
The apparent collapse of the Dutch coalition government – caused by Geert Wilders withdrawing his party’s support over the issue of migration and asylum seeking – is another indication that there are very dark clouds on the horizon for the European continent’s future and security. Taken together with the results of the Polish presidential election, political developments and prospects in a growing number of member […]