If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

Drew Harris says prosecuting his father’s IRA killers would make little difference irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026…

We support the position on Iran: A regime that has lasted so many years and killed so many people does not deserve to exist. Changes are needed. Changes are also needed in Europe—the bloodshed that Russia started and is the only one still prolonging must come to an end.

The Irish left's relative silence on Iran gives the lie to any pretence that their concerns about human rights are universal. They've shamed themselves completely. By me: gript.ie/mcguirk-the-le…

✍️ 'Compared to the anti-Israel outcry, the hypocrisy is sickening and the double standards are despicable' | Writes Allister Heath Read the column ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/1…

Pat Leahy This report does not highlight the fact that the guide goes against the recommendations in the Cass Review, the largest independent research on this issue in the world. The ICCL is a harmful and inaccurate guide. It will make schools legally vulnerable and it will harm kids. It

Normal people in Ireland know this is all nuts and it’s nuttiness that exposes Irish children to dangerous ideas that can become permanently life changing. Irish taxpayers are also being forced to pay for it, with our money funding the state bodies and NGOs that are the pushers.

A block of six apartments next to the Phoenix Park which was bought by the housing charity Depaul two years ago at a cost of €2 million has been lying empty since purchase rte.ie/news/2026/0117…

WATCH: Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the campaigners standing up against the proposed Chinese Spy Hub in London 👇

Gender ideology from Mazhar Hussain and @IHREC about the use of pronouns in schools and access for boys to girl’s toilets is deeply unwelcome. We should emphatically reject their attempt to suggest that the law is settled and on their side. It is not. My comments in the Seanad today.

Department rejects claim schools are obliged to use trans students’ preferred pronouns irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

How did ⁦The Irish Times⁩ get it so wrong once more? Trust NGOs seems to be the answer. ⁦Natural Womens Council⁩

This week's column: There is zero evidence in the Epstein Files that George Mitchell did anything wrong. Zilch. We should be going after actual paedophiles, not those who may or may not have emailed them now and again. Not all allegations are true. independent.ie/opinion/eilis-…

Pictured here with my friend Jimmy Lai on his last trip through London, though I pray Jimmy will Be back to London again. The umbrella was to symbolise Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Movement’. Jimmy is on the path to what may be a real martyrdom and if that is the case, his name and

Our Government must continue to raise the unjust conviction and imprisonment of Jimmy Lai. #FreeJimmyLai

Truly superb work by RTÉ News RTE Investigates on the appalling state of psychiatric care in Ireland. We really, really need to address these issues. Public broadcasting at its finest.

Too many people with mental health issues end up in prison irishtimes.com/opinion/letter… food for thought to our mental health advocates and Government depts?

Appetite for church weddings rises among Gen Zs and millennials, says Catholic survey irishtimes.com/ireland/social…

Today’s Brenda Power column in Sunday Independent rightly calls out ⁦RTÉ News⁩ Kevin Buckhurst, most of Ireland’s MEPs including ⁦Seán Kelly MEP⁩ ⁦Maria Walsh MEP⁩ ⁦Regina Doherty MEP⁩ for their follies.

A tragic case ‘did not meet the threshold for admission’? Let’s not raise this threshold of MH Act 2001 any further!