Eamon Ryan urges the public to keep paying the TV license fee: “Knowing the truth, having accuracy and fairness and balance, particularly in current affairs, but also in having a service that entertains us…if we stop paying we lose all of that. And that would be really harmful and bad for our country.” #gript #RTÉgate
“They are being investigated”: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirms that allegations of children being abused by gangs of predatory men under State care within Tusla are currently being looked into. #gript
Minister Catherine Martin defends State broadcasters like RTÉ, claiming that they “strengthen democracy,” and that during Covid they provided “excellent factual information.” #gript #RTEgate
Organisers estimated over 10,000 people thronged Dublin city centre today in the Rally for Life, calling on the government to retain the 3 day wait before abortion and to take action to address the spiralling abortion rate.
Gary Kavanagh sat down with Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and Social Policy at UCD, to discuss the professor’s latest book, Public Morality and the Culture Wars; immigration; LGBT rights; abortion; and coercive public morality.
Can you count how many things People Before Profit wants to nationalise? #gript
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says his government has “no official position” on how many genders there are, even though genders “other than male or female” are protected categories under his government’s hate speech bill. #gript
Will rewetting farm land lead to food shortages?
Independent TD carol Nolan has called on Green Senator Pauline O’Reilly to resign after her comment on the hate-speech bill saying that freedom was being restricted for the common good
Laoise Aodha de Brún says women’s rights group The Countess are backing a bill to ban biological males in women’s prisons, saying vulnerable women are being threatened and subject to sexualised abuse. #gript
Thousands of women don’t return for an abortion after the 3-day wait. So, with 8,500 abortions in 2022, why would the government scrap it and risk driving the abortion rate up further, asks Fatima Gunning.
Aontú Bill to prevent male rapists in female prisons