Nurses and midwives have said they are appalled at being told they must “respect” abortion in updated guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. The Board has published an updated edition of its Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (the Code) to “embrace” some recent legislative changes […]
Phoenix Park protest.
Public anger.
Tech giant, YouTube, has been fined more than $100,000 by a German court over the removal of a video showing a protest against COVID-19 restrictions. The German paper Welt am Sonntag said the Higher Regional Court of Dresden ordered YouTubetp pay the hefty fine last week, with the court ruling that the platform was given the […]
No more prosecutions for murders during the Troubles?
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has accused the government of adopting the most extreme policies in relation to Covid restrictions and called for common sense into the debate on hospitality reopening. The Aontú leader said that: “The Irish Government has taken the most extreme policies in relation to restrictions in all of Europe. Workplaces are […]
Twelve per cent of those in rental accommodation spend more than half of their take-home income on rent, a new survey has found. Some tenants in the greater Dublin area are forking out a hefty 64% of net income on rent. The research from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) also found that half of tenants […]
Vaccine passports.
European regulators are now analysing data on rare cases of a neurological disorder which may have arisen among a small number of recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after United States authorities added a warning label to the jab this week. The US Food and Drug Administration updated its warning labels for the J&J […]
1930s Germany.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar wrote to four of the world’s most powerful social media companies asking them to tackle the use of their platforms for the organisation of anti-lockdown protests, and what he termed misinformation. Investigator Ken Foxe said that the Fine Gael leader sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok after protests on the […]
A local council in the UK has been forced to apologise after a library booked a troupe including a monkey costume featuring a bare butt and a large fake penis for a children’s reading event. The Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge hired an actor in a rainbow-coloured monkey costume with a fake penis and nipples […]