Hollywood actor Sean Penn has said that men are “cowardly” for giving up their masculinity, saying that males should not have to become “feminised” to show respect to women. The remarks were made last week during an interview with the Independent, where Penn was asked about prior remarks he had made regarding masculinity in society. […]
The Chair of the Bioethics Commission of Austria is considering vaccine mandates for other diseases in addition to Covid-19. Christiane Druml said that mandatory vaccination against diseases such as measles, whooping cough or the flu should be considered. “The Covid-19 vaccination requirement could be the starting signal for a new attempt to better protect people […]
Pharmaceutical giant Moderna, working with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) nonprofit, have begun human trials of their experimental HIV vaccine last week, beginning the first phase of clinical trials. “We are tremendously excited to be advancing this new direction in HIV vaccine design with Moderna’s mRNA platform,” said IAVI CEO Mark Feinberg in a […]
Listen – whether you love or hate Green TD Joe O’Brien, there’s one thing you can’t take away from that man; he truly understands the gravity of the housing crisis and the problems in Direct Provision. Which makes it all the more confusing why he would oppose a social housing plan in his own neighbourhood. […]
A US speech therapist has claimed that her clinic has seen a “364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers” due to mass mask-wearing. Jaclyn Theek, who runs a speech therapy clinic in Florida, told WPBF News (affiliated with ABC News) that before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, only 5% of her clinic’s […]
Mattie McGrath TD has accused the government of being “dangled on a string” by the Greens, ripping Green TD Brian Leddin for his comments on the increased fertiliser prices. The comments were made in the Dáil this week, as fertiliser prices soar across Ireland and put strain on farming businesses. Mattie McGrath attacks the supposedly […]
A leading oncologist has warned that societies urgently need to focus on finding cancers that were missed while the world was preoccupied with Covid-19. Professor Karol Sikora, who has been an oncologist for 50 years and was formerly the head of the WHO’s cancer program, made the comments this week on Twitter. “If we catch […]
Independent Cork TD Michael Collins has hit out at politicians who he claims seized on the death of Ashling Murphy to advance “sad points of view.” Following the killing of Murphy, a 23-year-old Offaly native, People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith took to the Dáil to lay culpability at the feet of Catholic schools for […]
Sinn Féin Senator Paul Gavan has been accused of “bullying” after talking over a pro-life woman’s story of her friend’s death. https://twitter.com/JRD0000/status/1484245189606916096 Speaking in the Seanad this week, Senator Sharon Keogan said there was evidence of the HSE’s MyOptions counsellors urging women to have an abortion, even when the woman was conflicted about the decision. […]
A clip of a World Economic Forum panelist has gone viral after she expressed concern that people across the West are losing trust in “the elite.” The comments were made at the World Economic Forum’s Great Narrative Conference in Dubai in November 2021. Panelist Ngaire Woods, Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University, said […]
A Moldovan national has been jailed for sexually assaulted a 91-year-old woman in her home just 5 months after arriving in Ireland. The assailant had previous offences in Italy before he came to Ireland, being convicted of carrying weapons, theft and damage to public property. He was sentenced to over two years in jail in […]
Speaking in the Dáil this week, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald decided to give it to the entire nation of Ireland with both barrels, dubbing the country’s past and present “ugly and dangerous.” “The roots of sexism and misogyny run deep,” she said. “The Ireland of religious dogma, that defined women as men’s property, […]