Leo Varadkar was pictured having a picnic with friends in Phoenix Park with his shirt off last weekend. Did his actions send a signal to people that the lockdown was effectively over? VOTE in our Poll below and leave us your comments on our social pages and on our website
This week an article attacked Irish doctors who offer medical assistance to women who have taken abortion pills and then changed their minds before the effects were final. The article contains a number of claims that need to be challenged. A chemical abortion consists of two separate pills: the first, called mifepristone, blocks the effects of progesterone, […]
Last weekend’s interview with Mary Lou McDonald by Hugh O’Connell attracted a lot of attention because McDonald had told him that she might well have joined the IRA. Of course she did not, choosing instead to join Fianna Fáil while in college, and only joining Sinn Féin in 2002. She was elected to the European […]
Should schools re-open fully in September even if there has been no vaccine or cure for Coronavirus found? VOTE in our Poll below and leave us your comments on our social pages and on our website
Moore and Gibbs know which emotional buttons to press as they slyly husband support for their attack on the renewable energy industry. The new Michael Moore film ‘Planet of the Humans’ inadvertently reveals a silver lining to the dark coronavirus cloud, at least in the eyes of the filmmakers. Executive producer Michael Moore and […]
The Céide fields in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, date back 5,500 years, making them the world’s oldest field systems, with a complex of walls, houses and tombs, protected beneath a bog and is the largest Stone Age site on the planet. It is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland. Discovered in the 1930s by schoolteacher […]
Last Monday, the government briefed the public on how they were expected to behave during Phase One of the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions. They urged people to be “disciplined” and specifically not to have picnics. “Please do your exercise and go home,” the assistant secretary at the Department of the Taoiseach, Liz Canavan, said. “If you’re […]
Ireland is facing into a massive deficit because of the Coronavirus and the new Government will start off nearly €30billion in the red. It will have to find ways to save money. VOTE in our Poll below and leave us your comments on our social pages and on our website
I have worked with buyers on the issue of modern slavery in supply chains for much of the last decade. Modern slavery is a very real issue. Globally, it is estimated that some 40m people are enslaved or subject to forced labour conditions. Many, many more work in deeply exploitative conditions. I have looked into […]
All around the world, and not just in developed countries, fertility rates are plummeting. For many people, including dedicated demographers, large families and healthy fertility rates belongs to a bygone era. Many have also become skeptical of the fact that the Christian faith can still have the seemingly magical power of keeping fertility rates up. […]
The Iona Institute has said that Ireland will be one of the last countries in Europe to restore public worship. While Ireland plans to keep the ban on public religious ceremonies until July 20th, other European countries are allowing public worship again much sooner. In fact, this country seem to be one of the last to restore […]
YouTubers are being silenced if they don’t agree with the United Nations on public health. As The Verdict reports: YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki. Wojcicki announced the policy on CNN on Sunday. WHO is an agency of the UN, charged with […]