On Monday, October, 13, Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge announced that the Dutch government will amend its euthanasia law to permit child euthanasia — an announcement that came only three days after the news that the issue of child euthanasia had divided the Netherlands coalition government. The NL Times reported that de Jonge said the new law […]
A poll published in the Daily Mail this weekend shows that a majority of Irish people support moving to level five restrictions now. Do you agree? VOTE in our Poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.
On Friday, Jack Lambert, who is professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mater and UCD School of Medicine, was sharply critical of the actions of the government who are now being guided to a Level 5 lockdown by the National Public Health Advisory Team (NPHET). Prof Lambert was the latest in a growing number […]
ON THIS DAY: 18TH OCTOBER 1899: Death of Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh (Fr. Eugene O’Growney) He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century. As a young boy he was very interested in the Irish language and after being ordained a priest, became an editor […]
Kanye West stepped up his 2020 US presidential election campaign this week by releasing his first advertisement, posting the video ad to Twitter. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1315766834046541825 Having established himself as one of America’s most renowned musical artists, and marrying into the famous Kardashian family, Kanye West originally signalled his intention to run for president in 2015, […]
The Plan of Campaign was adopted in Ireland between 1886 and 1891, organised by John Dillon and others in the Irish National League, for the benefit of tenant farmers, against mainly absentee and rack-rent landlords and the tyrannical regime of enforced massive rents and evictions. Dillon was among those who organised a campaign whereby tenants […]
Every parent knows the feeling. Your child is crying and wants to go home, you pick them up to comfort them and move faster, your arms tired with a long walk ahead – but you cannot stop now. Now add to this a slick mud surface and a range of hungry predators around you. That […]
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“Come on, he cried, come show your hand you, have boasted for so long How you could crush this rebel band with your armies great and strong ‘No surrender’ was his cry, and ever no retreat Brave Tracey cried before he died shot down in Talbot Street” ‘Seán Treacy’ by Dominic Behan This week […]
It was founded by the ‘Callan Curates’ Father Matt O’Keefe and Father Tom O’Shea from Cappahayden, near Callan.’ Fr Tom O’Shea’s importance is emphasised in Callan County Kilkenny: A Short Guide to its History, Monuments and People (Callan Heritage Society). In this volume, Joseph Kennedy writes: “The Callan Tenant Protection Society which was founded […]
The Battle of Hastings, which decided the fate of England, was fought on this day, October 14th, 1066, between the Anglo Saxon forces of the English King Harold Godwineson, and the Norman army of the Pretender, William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy. The battle ended with a decisive victory for William, and the death of […]
On 23 May,1923, the Irish Civil War officially ended, but many republican prisoners were kept in prison by the newly-established Free-State government, with some 12,000 men and women in prison in camps such as the Curragh and Gormanstown, and in Mountjoy and Cork Jail. Conditions were generally poor for the prisoners, and Senator W.B. Yeats […]