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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, […]
German interior minister Nancy Faeser has accused Apple and Google of being “socially irresponsible” for failing to censor privacy-based messaging app Telegram from their app stores. “We remind Apple and Google of their social responsibility,” Faesar tweeted. “As long as they offer apps like #Telegram in their stores, they are also fuel the fire of […]
The Belgian government has withdrawn the right to residency from the Imam of the country’s largest mosque after dubbing him a “threat to national security.” According to Belgium’s oldest English-language newspaper, The Bulletin, Imam Mohamed Toujgani from Morocco became a figure of controversy in 2019 after a 10-year-old video surfaced of him calling for Jews […]
A US hospital chain has ceased using race as a factor to determine who should receive Covid-19 treatment, according to a statement released Friday. SSM Health, which operates 23 hospitals across the US, was the subject of controversy after it was found that they were using race to determine who should receive monoclonal antibody treatments […]
In the wake of the senseless and tragic killing of 23-year-old Offaly native Ashling Murphy, there has understandably been a viscerally emotional reaction from people the length and breadth of the country. Naturally, we all want to ensure that something this awful can never happen again, and most people (myself included) agree that new systems […]
In 1922, Ireland was torn in half by a terrible civil war that scarred our nation and its politics for a century. After winning the War of Independence, and striking a major blow for the freedom of the whole island, our victory should have been a time of celebration. Instead, it was a time of […]
Here’s a funny question for you; what exactly is the HSE? That seems like a silly thing to ask, I know. “The Health Service Executive,” you say. “Ireland’s public healthcare system. Duh.” Of course, if you consult the HSE’s “About Us” tab on their website, they say that “The HSE provides all of Ireland’s public […]
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