Easter is perhaps the most important time of the year to remember those who fought for our freedom, and by commemorating the past, we look forward to the future. We celebrate the various battles in the fight for Irish Freedom and recall with pride the ultimate price paid by many of those involved. For Christians, […]
Fr. PJ Hughes was fined 500 euro and threatened with arrest for saying Mass to a handful of parishioners in Co. Cavan yet in Knock, over the Easter weekend, a greater number were present in the Basilica for the Good Friday solemnities yet there was no word from the Gardai. The presence of RTÉ transforms […]
Barcelona has just rolled out a pilot program where carebots will be deployed to assist in the homes of the elderly living alone. The seniors will be closely monitored in their overall wellbeing before, during, and after the carebots’ stay, and findings will be used to fine-tune the carebots’ programming and use. Around 90,000 elderly […]
Good Friday Procession in the Phoneix Park Photo credit: Krzysztof M
When William Sydney Clements, the 3rd Earl of Leitrim inherited a vast estate from his father in 1854 he became a controlling landlord and bullying tyrant. The estate was massive and included lands in Leitrim, Donegal, Kildare and Galway. Lord Leitrim was obsessed with improving land productivity. He evicted families or sometimes paid them to […]
The Decade of Centenaries Programme that was initiated in 2012 and which is set to end in 2023 has allowed us to revisit and to celebrate some of the great milestones of Irish history. These include the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, the Home Rule and Land Bills, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 Rising, the […]
A report from the Roman Province of Judea “I, Lucius Tacitus, write from the Province of Judea in the month of Aprilis, the XIX year of the reign of the August Caesar Tiberius. Events have come to pass in the Province this past month which must be brought to the attention of the August Caesar, Tiberius. The Province has long been an […]
“Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe,” Nune Pashayan, a health department official, told a news conference this week. The government plans to triple funding for reproductive programs. Mr Pashayan cited a number of statistics. The fertility rate is 1.6 (and needs to be 2.1 to maintain the population). According to the latest data, 14.9% of women […]
ON THIS DAY: 30TH MARCH 1849, Doolough Tragedy where a large crowd of starving people died on the journey to receive food they had been promised. 170 years ago on Friday night, March 30th, 1849, during the starvation, 600 people, including women and children, were living in the town of Louisborough. The starving people were […]
JAMA Internal Medicine hosted a fiery debate about Dutch euthanasia this week. Geriatrician Diane Meier, of the Icahn School of Medicine, New York, responded feistily to critics of an editorial which she had written in December, headlined “The Treatment of Patients With Unbearable Suffering—The Slippery Slope Is Real”. Two teams of Dutch physicians responded with reassurances that “all […]
The decision to remove Speech and Language therapists from The Holy Family Deaf school in Cabra was made without consultaion with parents or the school – and will be “devastating” for deaf children, parents say, as it removes a vital and effective service from already disadvantaged children. Dáire Ryan a parent of a child attending […]
In 1974 local farmers digging a well near the Chinese city of Xian came across one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. The discovery of a clay warrior figure soon revealed many more by state archaeologists. In fact there may be 8,000 terracotta figures in total, each individually modelled and purposely arranged in three […]