Hi Ricochet friends,

This week the podcast has aired a topic that has had me simmering with vexation for over a year now.

Ireland announced last year that we were getting a new bank holiday. Hurray! It would fall on the weekend after St Brigid’s Day, which seemed really meaningful. Would it be an acknowledgment of the life and achievements of one of our great Irish saints, an important medieval historical figure? Oh, you sweet summer child, as the Critical Drinker might say.

The Brigid we’re meant to commemorate is a hybrid entity, sometimes a pagan goddess and other times a lesbian nun who performed abortions. The weekend is being called Imbolc in many quarters, which is some pagan crap I can’t bring myself to read up on.

If you haven’t tuned in before, I’d really like it if you gave this one a listen.

What’s happening in Ireland is largely ignored by conservatives in the wider world, and it’s to our detriment here. We are being run by a class of people who care so desperately for the good opinion of their Progressive counterparts abroad. I would like this to work both ways. I want them called out. I want our idiot journalists and politicians exposed for what they are. These two guys have made a start.

Here’s the link: https://gript.ie/podcasts/the-week-that-really-was-15-the-5000-undocumented/