Three men have been arrested during Garda raids across Ireland as Gardaí investigate an alleged organised international criminal organisation involved in aiding illegal immigration. The operation, which was launched by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB), ran parallel with similar police searches in the UK by British Immigration Enforcement. Europol agents were also reportedly involved. […]
TDs have sternly hit out at the “totalitarian” ban on protests under the covid-19 restrictions, where taxi drivers who planned to protest inside their cars have been prohibited from demonstrating by Gardaí. “In the last couple of hours, I have been informed by the four national representative taxi groups that the Garda has banned their […]
A rural independent TD has called in the Dáil for the licence fee to be spread around other organisations, including VIrgin Media and Gript, to end what he calls RTÉ’s “monopoly” on funding. “I want to talk about the broadcasting aspect of the Bill,” said Cork South-West TD Michael Collins during a Dáil debate on […]
16 nursery students and 2 teachers have been wounded during a knife attack at a créche in China. Footage of the suspect being arrested by police has been circulating on social media following the attack in the Guanxi region of southern China. According to Xinhua, Chinese State-run media, two of the children were seriously injured, […]
Michael Collins, one of the original three-man crew of the first manned mission to the Moon, has passed away at age 90 after “a valiant battle with cancer.” Collins reportedly passed away Wednesday, and “spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side” according to his relatives. During the Apollo 11 mission in […]
Independent Donegal TD Thomas Pringle has slammed Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris for failing to address issues affecting third level students, and spending too much time on the teen social media site TikTok. “We hear more from Simon Harris on Covid-19 issues than on the issues affecting our tens of thousands of third level […]
British secret agents have begun “green spying” operations on the world’s polluting countries to make sure they uphold their climate-change targets, according to the head of MI6. MI6, or “Military Intelligence, Section 6”, is the UK’s main spying agency and is famously depicted in the James Bond movies, will be spying on industrial countries around […]
Twitter has confirmed that they have complied with orders from the Indian government to remove dozens of posts critical of the State’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic on the basis that they are “fake news” and “misleading.” As admitted by a Twitter spokesperson, the move comes at a time when India faces a massive surge […]
The European Commission has issued a ruling that Ireland can’t be trusted to police its own fishing quotas under the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, and the fishing sector will face significant Brussels-imposed penalties. The ruling will remove a special law granted to Ireland that allowed fish to be weighed at Irish factories and not at […]
An Evangelical Christian pastor has said he will “apologise to nobody” for exercising his constitutional right to worship God in public, holding a socially-distanced Sunday service in the Phoenix Park. “This may be a short message, but I believe it’s a message that needs to be given”, said Pastor John Aherne of the All Nations […]
The Government is in the process of legalising the use of body cams for gardaí, and intends to give gardaí powers to use other recording devices, including phones, cameras and drones in the line of duty. The Garda Síochána Digital Recording Bill which is currently underway will be brought before cabinet tomorrow by Justice Minister […]
Caitlyn Jenner has filed the paperwork to run for governor of Democrat stronghold California as a Republican, “fiscally conservative and socially liberal” candidate. California faces a potential “recall” election, after a petition against the current Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, reached the required number of signatures to trigger a vote. Jenner – a former Olympic athlete […]