Spiraling insurance costs are causing play centres to close – and big insurance companies need to be taken to account, says local election candidate Helena Byrne.
BARRED because she had Down Syndrome. Campaigners protested a decision by New Zealand to refuse Bumikka Suhinthan, an Irish resident, entrance to New Zealand because she has Down Syndrome.
Michael O’Dowd, a candidate in the European elections, and a disability campaigner handed in a letter explaining the decision was in breach of international human rights conventions.
SECULAR BLASPHEMY? Cllr Keith Redmond says the proposal from Irish government that Facebook could request PPS numbers to register users is worrying.
Parents are fighting back against attempts to force a Catholic ethos out of schools – and are asking Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to stand up for Catholic families.
Aontú, the new political party set up by Peadar Tóibín, says it is fielding 70 candidates in the local election in May.
Prof. Ray Kinsella says that had the Irish government handled Brexit differently we would not be looking at the costs that are being projected and imposed on us. The Irish chose to work with the EU to impale the UK on the backstop when they had other alternatives – such as telling the EU that under the Good Friday agreement Ireland could have mediated a settlement directly with the UK to minimise any trade and business frictions, the leading economist told Gript.
Prof. of Psychiatry, Patricia Casey, says a recent study shows that married couples are significantly more secure about their relationship than cohabiting couples and this has a real impact on raising children.
Waiting lists for assessment for children with special needs is scandalous and is preventing children from reaching their full potential says Carol Nolan, Independent TD for Offaly, who has called on the government to take urgent action.
“It’s a very sad day for the sickest children in Ireland when spineless politicians who’ve been jumping up and down about the cost of the Children’s Hospital refuse to vote to even consider a better option. A very sad day”. Mattie McGrath TD slams politicians from all parties for refusing to support a vote calling for a review of the Children’s Hospital plans and a consideration of another site.
Fisherman Gerard Kelly from Donegal is CONTINUING his hunger strike outside the Dáil as he says the government are carrying out a “dirty deed” by giving away fishing rights to foreign entities who will destroy the shellfish fishing in the northern coasts.
With fishing in deep crisis, and Irish boats only getting 5% of the fish taken from our waters, Lee Walsh says Brexit is an opportunity to renegotiate the EU Common Fisheries Policy and protect Irish fisheries.
Pro-life doctors are not going away, and more than 600 of them are now pressing the ICGP for a real EGM. Dr Ronan Cleary also says doctors have no confidence in Simon Harris who he described as one of the worst Ministers the country has ever seen.