The Department of Justice’s new report, titled ‘Legislating for Hate Speech and Hate Crime in Ireland’, recommends the introduction of draconian and expansive hate based laws in Ireland but contains absolutely no recommendations on how to protect free speech and ensure the laws don’t stifle public debate. The report, published last week, will be used […]
The Tavistock Clinic, Britain’s only sex-change clinic for children, has been refused permission to appeal the results of the recent Bell -v- Tavistock case by the British Divisional Court. That case had found that children under 16 likely could not meaningfully consent to puberty blockers or sex-change hormones gives the immense impact the treatments could […]
A new campaign is calling on people across the world to buy Australian wine this Christmas as a way of pushing back against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempts to intimidate Australia. China recently imposed tariffs of up to 212% on Australian wines after claiming that Australia had been dumping discounted wine into China, which the […]
The decision stresses the “experimental nature of the treatments”, that the evidence for their usage in young children was “non-existent”, and that they could cause “irreversible” changes to a child in the most “fundamental way possible.” The High Court in London has today ruled in favour of British women Keira Bell in her case against […]
Senator Ronan Mullen will be hosting a public webinar this Friday, the 4th of December, at 1pm. The webinar, titled “Can China Change? China’s treatment of the Uyghur people and what we can do about it”, aims to inform the public about China’s treatment of ethnic minorities, particularly Uighurs, in China’s Xinjiang region. In what […]
The Taiwan Ireland Association (TIA), which came to public prominence earlier in the year for their generous donations of PPE to Irish nursing homes and care facilities, has launched a new charitable initiative called “Giving is living” in collaboration with Make-A-Wish Ireland. As part of the initiative TIA is selling gift boxes of goods sourced […]
A new study in the Journal of Genocide Research, ‘Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang”, argues that China’s repression of the Uighur people is increasingly being seen by academics and legal professionals as meeting the strict legal definition of genocide. “China can no longer be regarded as an authoritarian country […]
Amnesty Ireland, the National Women’s Council of Ireland, and a host of other Irish NGOs have signed an open letter calling on politicians to “no longer provide legitimate representation” to those with critical views on transgenderism and gender ideology, which the letter equals with “bigoted beliefs that are aligned with far right ideologies.” It is […]
On Tuesday of this week the Seanad debated the second stage of the Criminal Justice (Hate Crime) Bill 2020, which is being brought forward by Senators O’Loughlin, Chambers, and Gallagher. The Bill has mostly slipped under the radar but that is not to say it is a minor bill – if it were to be […]
A social media account operated by the man behind the “Leo the Leak” scandal repeatedly shared extreme pro-Russian propaganda, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and called for Russia to invade Ukraine.
In a move likely to anger Beijing Young Fine Gael has called on the Irish Government to build its relationship with Taiwan by formally establishing a representative office in Taiwan, saying that “Ireland must be stronger in our support to fellow liberal democracies like Taiwan in the face of rising authoritarianism.” The move came after […]
Only two TDs, Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle, have signed a pledge saying they support the global legalisation of apostasy from Islam and will oppose any attempts to introduce sharia law in Ireland – the penalty for apostasy from Islam under sharia law is death. The Alliance of Former Muslims (Ireland), which was set up […]