The US government has officially offered a $5 million dollar (€4.2 million euro) reward for any information that leads to the capture of Communist rebel leader and drug-pusher Wilver Villegas Palomino. 38-year old Palomino, who US secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described as a “narcoterrorist”, has been accused of distributing cocaine in the US […]
The Church of Saint Agata of Sicily in the Italian province of Caltanissetta has reportedly been vandalised for the second time in a month, with thieves causing serious damage to the church and scattering consecrated Eucharistic hosts on the ground. Vandals broke down the door in the middle of the night, and after breaking the […]
A former abortion doctor who previously advocated teen prostitution has been appointed as the UN’s top expert on health and human rights. Last year Tlaleng Mofokeng wrote “Dr. T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure”, and is the host of the South African television show “Sex Talk with Dr. T”. She drew harsh criticism […]
The satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, has republished their now-famous cartoon of Muhammad that caused them to become the victims of a fatal Islamic terrorist attack back in 2015. The decision to republish the cartoon came the day before a major trial in France involving 14 alleged accomplices to the killers, who are believed to […]
Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, South African prelate and Archbishop of Durban, has taken to Twitter to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. “It’s time to state honestly what BLM really stands for – destroying the traditional family, AND what it actually does – destroying property, including religious buildings and objects!”, the cardinal wrote on Saturday. It’s […]
To date, 165 pubs across Ireland have been placed under Garda investigation for selling alcohol without providing food to their customers. Entitled “Operation Navigation”, the police have been scouring the country’s pubs since July, and have carried out thousands of investigations so far. The Garda Headquarters has announced that files on each of the various […]
The ministers are meeting today to discuss giving special powers to the Gardaí allowing them to break-up groups of pub-goers and house parties that fail to comply with the government’s covid-19 measures. It’s been proposed that, under the new regulations, it would become an offence to attend a function of six or more people in […]
Ireland has failed to apply for the EU’s €100 billion SURE scheme due to the long delays in forming a government after the general election, the Irish Times has reported. The EU Commission’s SURE scheme was proposed in April, and would offer up to €100 billion in affordable loans to EU countries so that they […]
Controversial WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gheybresus, has said that any recovery process to deal with the fallout from covid-19 must include measures for dealing with climate change. During a press conference last week, Gheybresus told reporters that though countries were recovering from the impact of coronavirus, life would never be returning to pre-pandemic conditions. “The […]
Here in Ireland and across much of the Western world, the issue of mandatory masks has become a controversial and contentious issue, with many people being divided into “pro-mask” and “anti-mask” camps. The former argue that masks are akin to seatbelt laws – a necessary inconvenience for the common good to prevent the virus from […]
In a combative RTÉ drivetime interview today, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has called on the Irish government to include countries like Germany and the UK in its “Green List” for international travel. “We’re talking about adding countries to Ireland’s Green List that have lower covid case rates than Ireland. You’re in greater danger of contracting […]
If you’ve been on Irish Twitter in the last week or so, you may have seen the viral clip of Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan pillorying Fine Gael senator Barry Ward for his gender and skin colour, like the true anti-racist, non-sexist, egalitarian socialist that she is. While debating the wording of a government bill on […]