The European Commission appears to have negligently breached the terms of its contract with AstraZeneca by accidentally releasing a largely unredacted version of the contract. The move appears to break Section 16.4 of the contract, which states that confidential material shall not be disclosed to third parties. The EU had been calling on AstraZeneca to […]
More than 2100 doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals have signed an open letter strongly opposing a bill which seeks to legalise assisted suicide in Ireland. The letter, organised by Irish Healthcare Professionals for Dignity in Living and Dying, was published ahead of submissions being made to the Oireachtas Justice Committee which is examining a […]
“I am devastated that the British authorities have decided to dehydrate my son to death.”
ON THIS DAY: Bloody Sunday – 14 civilians were shot dead on the streets of Derry by the British Parachute Regiment on 30th January 1972. They had been taking part in a civil rights march against internment without trial. 26 civilians were shot; 13 were killed outright while the death of another man happened four […]
Two new reports have highlighted that, while the world’s richest people have made billions during the pandemic, the number of people living in poverty has doubled, with the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost across the globe. The International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, says that 8.8 per cent of global working hours […]
Promoting marriage is likely the most successful way to promote more births in Asia, according to recent research by Mengni Chen, a research scientist at the University of Cologne in Germany and University of Louvain in Belgium, and Paul Yip, the chair professor (population health) at the University of Hong Kong. 2020 estimates continue to place the […]
The decidedly unWoke American socialist Upton Sinclair once declared: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Sinclair wrote scathingly about conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses of the early 20th century. His adage might equally perhaps be applied to some of those who have […]
Ireland is set to receive 300,000 fewer doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to a failure in EU deliveries. After the EU struck a deal with the pharmaceutical company Astrazenica, Ireland was to receive 600,000 doses by the end of March. Now the Department of Health admits that the final figure may be as low […]
Submissions to the Oireachtas Justice Committee on the issue of Assisted Suicide have strongly opposed the bill drafted by Socialist TD, Gino Kenny, with one group saying the lack of safeguards in the proposal “indicates an astonishing carelessness as to the protection on vulnerable people.” The Life Institute, who are running a strong awareness campaign […]
“Booooooo!”, I hear you say. And indeed, this intervention by the Tánaiste yesterday won’t be very popular amongst those with republican instincts, who lie awake at night dreaming of the day when the Wolfe Tones song about being a nation once again can be sung lustily and loudly throughout the land. But hasn’t he…… got […]
Not, just so we’re clear, €47,700 for every taxpayer in Ireland. Not €47,700 for every adult. Not €47,700 for every citizen. Nope. Forty seven thousand, seven hundred euros for every man, woman, and child resident inside the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland: The Government finances can absorb a forecast 17 per cent spike […]
Biden called the Mexico City policy an “attack on women’s health access” as his administration announced the widely-anticipated move.