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If you’re buying a smartphone for a child, be aware of paedophile traps

Another year has flown by, and children are looking forward excitedly to what Santa is leaving under the Christmas tree.

Wed, 09 Dec, 2015

What else would you do at this time of year?

Those who moan about the over commercialisation of Christmas should remember not to put the cart before the horse.

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Assad is only trying to stop Sunni supremacists spreading their evil

It is obscene how the propaganda machine rolls out in the West to set its case against the Assad regime. All the more hypocritical when it comes from Obama and other people who objected to the removal of Saddam Hussein on the grounds that he was a wicked dictator.

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Protestant clergy must apologise for neglect

The leadership of the Protestant Churches of Ireland have to finally accept their historic responsibility as their counterparts in the Catholic Church did recently in Scotland. 

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Ballyhea candidate will call for promissory note destruction to end

Since Sunday March 2011, over four years ago, a small group of determined people have marched every week in protest at the imposition of private bank-debt on the Irish people.

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Irish Water a mess because of its architects

In an article in the Irish Examiner (December 2 ), Joe Gill lays the blame for the Irish Water fiasco at the feet of ‘the cohort who have made Irish Water a cause in Irish politics’.

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Syria is another Sunni and Shia battle

John Bruton (Irish Examiner, Dec. 2) claims that Syrian history is key to the current conflict, yet fails to explain the connection.

Tue, 08 Dec, 2015

Veils should be removed if it’s a visa requirement

It is reported that some females attending the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) are reluctant to remove face covering for the purpose of photographs.

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015

Europe cannot absorb this number of migrants

Can Islam not look after its own members that we have to care for them? Where are the rich Arab Oil sheiks? What are they doing to support their co-religionists?

Mon, 07 Dec, 2015