State should use state-of-the-art wireless technology to bring urgently-needed broadband to rural areas says Renua candidate for Enniscorthy Ger O’Donoghue.
He says service will be locally-owned and is a faster, cheaper method of bringing broadband where it is urgently needed in rural Ireland.
BURNING money. Simon Harris is spending €7 BILLION more on Health – but the number of people on trollies is GROWING. €10 Billion on Health in 2010 – €17 Billion now, but the crisis is getting worse. Is it time to #SackSimon?
Deirdre Duffy of Fine Gael has been criticised on social media for saying said “a lot” of the 79% of Irish voters who voted Yes in the 2004 referendum on citizenship were motivated by “latent racism” and “fear”. What do you think? Is it wrong to label concerns regarding citizenship as “racist”?
John McGuirk says our taxes should not be used to pay for the ‘Isis Bride’, Lisa Smith to come home.
“This is something different”: Launch of Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú hears of people “desperately frustrated” with politics as it stands, said delegates at the presentation of more than 60 candidates for the local election in May.
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.