World Rugby, the governing body for rugby union, yesterday issued new guidelines which will ban trans women from competing in elite and international women’s rugby. Trans women are biological males who identity as women. The new policies cover international and elite women’s contact rugby, but World Rugby say that national rugby unions can be flexible […]
A group of over 30 scientists, academics, and physicians have written to Boris Johnson asking that he reconsider the current approach to COVID-19, which the letter says “appears to be one of suppression of the virus, until such a time that a vaccine can be deployed.” This, according to the letter, is “increasingly unfeasible” and […]
Champion boxer Kellie Harrington has called on Ashton Dog Pound, which is currently under investigation by the Gardai on animal welfare grounds, to be shut down. Ashton has received millions of euro in funding from Fingal County Council, South Dublin County Council, Dublin City Council, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Kellie told Gript “I am […]
Ten members of staff in the Tesco in Clearwater Shopping Centre have tested positive for COVID-19, with two of those cases requiring hospitalization. Gript have been told that staff members have been ordered by management not to inform the public about the outbreak, and that not all members of staff in the store have been […]
Cork County Council has responded to a recent Gript story ,which showed that the Council was linked to a Chinese province which has been using forced labour sourced from “re-education” camps, with a statement saying that they are “aware of differences in values between Ireland and China.” We had reported that that the Chinese Communist […]
Reports show that Jiangsu province in China, which Cork County Council has a formal Friendship Agreement with, makes use of forced labour drawn from the “re-education” camps which at least one million Uighurs and other ethnic minorities have been forced into by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These camps are a core component of what […]
Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has said that China must be “militarily and morally” ready for war. Mr Hu made the comments in an editorial published in the Global Times on Friday. The Global Times has a daily circulation of […]
The Journal.ie, a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network’s [IFCN] code of principles and the only Irish media organisation recognised as a fact-checker by Facebook, appears to be having trouble sorting fact from allegation in some of their latest articles. The Week in Quotes, a regular fixture where the Journal.ie, as you probably guessed, go […]
A motion calling on Fingal County Council to review the operation of Ashton pound passed with the unanimous support of Councillors yesterday. The motion was brought forward by Cllr Tania Doyle (IND). The pound, which has received millions of euro in public funding, is currently under investigation following allegations of animal cruelty. Neither that investigation, […]
From Thursday every pub and restaurant you go into will be forced to collect a dossier of your time with them. They’ll take your name, your number, the time you were there, what you ate, and, presumably, a rather good explanation of why you ordered your steak well done. They’ll keep that list for the […]
A petition calling on Fingal, South Dublin, and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Councils, and Dublin City Council, to re-tender for their dog pound and warden services has garnered nearly 20,000 signatures. The Councils currently pay over one million euro to Ashton Dog Pound, which is currently being investigated by Gardai for animal cruelty, for those services […]