On the Indo letters page this week, Cian Cafferky and Anthony Bates expressed their revulsion at Kevin Myers' call to stop Muslims entering the country. But their hearts have overruled their minds. Both responses play on our emotions, while neither answers the fundamental question that Mr Myers asked : given the extreme difficulty posed by Muslim immigration to England, "what rational justification is there for enlarging our Islamic population?"
Where art thou Summer gone? That's the question that everybody is asking!
As certain types used to try and link the militaristic negativity of the IRA with Sinn Fein's political ethos, can I now say The Greens/An Taisce?
Many media commentators have expressed their shock that those arrested for the recent attacks in Britain were doctors. Had these men been engineers, no-one would have raised an eyebrow. But doctors! Why do people still allow their critical faculties to be subdued by the old fallacy that doctors are a higher form of human being?
Darragh McIntyre's sensational shock interviewing techniques did not produce
the clarification required' if its results your after.
Restoring the Freedom of Limerick to a long dead Earl of Dunraven smacks of political hypocrisy and is an insult to those who revoked it, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Fein said today.
The issue of illegal drugs comes up everyday. On the streets, in the media, and everywhere you could think of. Its drugs, drugs and more drugs.
The National Day of Commemoration, which was held on Sunday July 8th in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham to honour those Irish who died in foreign wars and in service with the United Nations, was a most solemn and moving event.
Not contented with continuously destroying our remaining million years Forest Reserves with all its glorious wildlife and ancestral Indigenous Customary Landrights (as under Native Customary Rights i.e. NCR) in Malaysia, Malaysian Capitalist Palm Oil/Logging Corporations are expanding very aggressively into Indonesia, which includes West Papua.
Modern-day Druids work to heal humanity's alienation from nature. Druidry, rather than being a religion, is a particular way of working with and understanding the natural world and healing the planet. We offer humanity a way out of the industrial wasteland we have created by exploiting nature, and into a new age of naturalism.