Nigella, Publicity and Excuses
When I saw the story of Nigella Lawson’s apparent domestic abuse at the hands of her husband Charles Saatchi on Sunday morning, like most normal people I was horrified. Although the original story I ...
Category Archives: Opinion
Whistleblowers need our support
In April 2010, Wikileaks released the now infamous “Collateral Murder” video which showed an American helicopter firing on journalists and civilians. This video, along with the dip...
Microsoft’s silence damaging the Xbox One?
I woke up today to see my twitter feed blow up (that’s a competitive gaming term, yo) with the news that Xbox One will be region locked. This usually wouldn’t be newsworthy at all, I feel, sav...
How to Cope With Not Coping: Long Term Illness
Eight months ago, my father was diagnosed with alzheimer’s. While my family and I had seen a deterioration of his short term memory over the last few years, and thus, the diagnosis was somewhat expe...
Backed Into A Corner – Iona, Quinn & The River Of Bile
If you are a regular reader of Krank.ie you will know that we feature a number of articles relating to The Iona Institute, an Irish conservative ‘think tank’. We have featured articles t...
Why Syria Matters
Over the past week it has become increasingly apparent that the Syrian regime has used the nerve agent Sarin gas against rebel forces operating within the country. This has made direct conflict betwe...
Sinn Fein and the future of the opposition
Remember back to the aftermath of the 2011 general election. Newspapers and bookshelves were flooded, inundated, overrun with people all proclaiming the same news – Fianna Fail was spent. Done for. F...
Choice
On Saturday afternoon I was stopped and asked for my support by some “Pro-life” campaigners near where we live. At the time I was annoyed, yet polite, but the more I think about it the more upset I g...