They deliberately devised a supposedly idealistic project of a united Europe, founded on the subversion of democracy across the continent – the exclusion of the meddlesome masses, on an agenda that, inevitably, was going to deepen inequality.
Vincent Brown wrote that the EU should have seen Brexit coming.
For heaven’s sake man, go!
David Cameron laid into Jeremy Corbyn across the House of Commons, telling him it was not in the national interest for him to remain on as Labour leader.
If he says black is white, I say, ‘It is indeed dad’.
Senator Rónán Mullen spoke of his father’s battle with dementia and how he moved home to Galway to help care for him.
He was a quiet and tranquil man, but a man of great courage whom I was proud to know. I had asked him at one stage why Charles Taylor had not killed him. His reply was striking. He said “It may seem strange, but I feel that he is afraid of me. Without boasting about myself”, he said, “I feel that there is something about integrity which frightens”. Integrity unnerves.
Part of the the homily by Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin at a tribute mass for Veronica Guerin. He is referencing Michael Francis, a man who served as Catholic Archbishop of Monrovia in Liberia between 1981 and 2011 – during which time the west African nation came under the control of despot president Charles Taylor.
I didn’t owe any money or anything. I just wanted to be able to boast about it. I wasn’t in the right state of mind, was living this ridiculous life and wanted to show I could manage it. I now realise that I put myself at risk and no one would have known where I was if anything had happened to me, but I didn’t care at the time.
In an interview in today’s Scottish Mail on Sunday, drug mule Melissa Reid claimed that she knew what she was doing when she attempted to traffick drugs out of Peru in 2013.
However, when he asked why I had taken a year out of university, I reasoned that there was nothing wrong with being upfront and telling him the truth since he had asked so directly. I told him that I had been suffering from depression, was getting help for it, but needed more time before getting back into university life. He laughed at me. Straight up laughed.
Natalie Marr wrote about the stigma surrounding depression and other mental health problems.
Dublin without her people is nothing to me.
Dublin’s new Lord Mayor Brendan Carr entered office quoting Connolly.
I wanted to stop drinking… I tried to and I couldn’t. That sent a message to me – why can’t I stop drinking? Why don’t I have the will power?
Senator Frances Black spoke to TheJournal.ie about her battle with alcohol addiction.
The remnants, by magnificent effort, succeeded in getting into the German trenches. They were held up there by an utterly impassable curtain of shells and bullets. It was not their fault that they could not advance any further. They had to face a more terrific ordeal than any body of men have had to encounter in battle before.
A first-hand account of the Battle of the Somme, which started one hundred years ago this week.
The pain and suffering of that time is deeply etched in my memory. And the fear of the unknown and the cruelty of fate weighed heavily on our shoulders.
Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell made an emotional stand during a debate on fatal foetal abnormalities.
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