A Report from Hotline.ie, which is Ireland’s national centre for monitoring activities related to online child sexual abuse and exploitation, is set to reveal that the rate of reported child sexual abuse material is at its highest level here since 1999, with a year-on-year increase of 79% on 2018 figures. According to the Law Society Gazette, […]
The HSE it would appear are on a mission to dilute, if not totally erase the pro-life views of its maternal healthcare staff. They intend to do this through a process of re-education bearing a distinctly Orwellian title. This was confirmed by the HSE’s National Women and Infants Health Programme, when it clarified that as […]
Last night the Dáil debated the National Oil Reserves Agency (Amendment) and Provision of Central Treasury Bill 2020. The aim of the Bill is to make it legal for the government to direct the funding generated by the levy you pay on petrol/oil products into its Climate Action Fund. Although the levy has been set […]
In case you missed it, last week saw Europol, which is the European Union’s Agency for Law Enforcement publish its EU Terrorism Situation & Trend Report for 2019. One of the most startling, but perhaps not entirely surprising pieces of data to emerge from the Report was the fact that in 2019 a total of […]
Since 2014, Ireland has been what is termed a ‘net contributor’ to the European Union’s annual budget (Multiannual Financial Framework). That is, we now put in more cash than we receive back. Based on the principle that you should contribute more to the budget pot if you can afford it, this is not automatically a […]
Each year the HSE is obliged to publish its Annual Report and Financial Statements for the preceding year. It has just done so for 2019. This year we read that it spent €17.9 million on Legal Fees & Legal Proceedings with a further €1.6 million on Settlements and a mere €97 thousand on Conciliation and […]
Yesterday morning the former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter sent out a tweet calling on several political parties and organisations, including the Irish Catholic Bishops development agency, Trócaire, to publicly comment on what he has termed “a despicable attack by Hamas thugs on an 85-year-old woman in Gaza.” Part of the reason Mr Shatter specifically […]
Remember back in October of last year when Fianna Fail TD’s Timmy Dooley, Niall Collins and Lisa Chambers were all exposed as having repeatedly engaged in voting ‘irregularities’ in the Dáil? To be sure, it all seems like a lifetime ago now. But at the time, the scandal was given significant coverage and it even […]
On Wednesday, the Dáil is due to hear Statements on ‘Supporting Inclusion and Combatting Racism in Ireland.’ There can be little doubt that much of the scheduled 105 minute debate will be taken up by TD’s seeking to outdo each other as they breathlessly scale the peaks of The High Moral Ground and hurl vitriol […]
I suspect this may come as somewhat of a surprise to Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, but apparently the members of his force are guilty of engaging in systemic, daily acts of “micro-aggressions” against people of colour. It will certainly come as a surprise to The Garda National Diversity & Integration Unit, which forms part of […]
In today’s Irish Independent, Philip Ryan is reporting that “children under the age of 16 would be able to legally change their gender under plans being discussed by Fine Gael.” Ryan goes on to note that: “A Fine Gael policy paper drafted for the government formation talks recommends changing laws to allow all children change […]
On Saturday, The Irish Independent carried a sponsored propaganda…scrap that..a sponsored Editorial ’opinion’ piece from the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland. In one sense it is a masterful display of deflection. In quite another, and more pertinent sense it is a nauseating and infuriating piece that has about as much grounding in reality as the view […]