Pro-life groups have challenged the government to do more to provide women with real alternatives when faced with an unexpected pregnancy as research showed nine out of ten Irish family doctors are not providing abortion. “It’s a significant finding, as clearly doctors – the people most likely to best understand the reality of abortion – […]
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Recently Naomi Campbell announced she had become a mother to a baby girl at the age of 50. Everybody thought it was something wonderful to celebrate. Previously, Naomi had said she was not overly worried about the ticking biological clock as science had overtaken nature’s limitations. She is of course far from unique if she […]
Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has warned that a potential fourth wave of covid-19 could jeopardise the re-opening of the economy. Speaking on RTÉ’s This Week programme, the Táinaiste stated that “this Indian variant or even the Vietnamese variant which we’re reading about now” could result in a fourth wave of covid-19, going on to speak critically […]
Gardaí are threatening to cordon off entire streets in the capital city after large crowds were seen socialising during the good weather last weekend, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that the government may reconsider opening the economy if individuals don’t follow lockdown measures. According to the Taoiseach, the planned easing of lockdown for July […]
The Far-Right Observatory (FRO), an anonymous collective of activists which came together in November 2018, has been granted €112,500 from the Dormant Accounts Fund. The public money makes up half of a €225,000 grant that has been awarded to the FRO, over three years, by Rethink Ireland’s Equality Fund. It is understood that a portion […]
The Rural Independent Group has slammed the government for failing to create an independent beef regulator to protect the sector, claiming farmers have been “let down” by a lack of action on the “broken” beef system. The remarks came following a Dáil motion by the group calling for better regulation of what they called “Beef […]
Whilst 2016 saw 18 million babies born in China, 2020 saw only 12 million.
An ESRI report published today examines the persistence of poverty among families with children. The report, The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland Survey, is based on thousands of families in two cohorts of those with children aged 0 – 9 years in 1998 and 9 – 18 in 2008. […]
As bad as the new Red C/Sunday Business Post opinion poll is for Fianna Fáil the headline figures are not actually that obviously terrible. 14% nationally is still the stuff of nightmares for the party that has dominated Irish politics since the 1930’s, but it actually represents a slight increase on the previous version of […]
Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
The Sunday Times, the leading newspaper in the UK, has launched a campaign to end the ban on assisted suicide. It has thrown its weight behind a private member’s bill in the House of Lords introduced by Baroness Meacher, who is also the chair of Dignity in Dying. At the top of the page is the […]