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This evening the Dáil will debate the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018. It is being brought forward by the Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle after having been initiated in the Seanad in 2018 by former Senator Collette Kelleher. The Bill, which has already passed final stage in the Seanad (October […]
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What a spectacle.
A priest who said that he will not be following what he called an “off the cuff” statement by an Tánaiste Leo Varadkar on cancelling Communions and Confirmations due to Covid-19 has received widespread support on social media. Fr Michael Toomey tweeted Mr Varadkar to say he was “planning to celebrate the two Confirmations in my […]
Discrimination?
The Department of Health has reported that 6,577 abortions took place in 2020, a figure almost equivalent to the 6,666 abortions which took place in 2019, the first year of the new abortion regime. Pro-life organisation, the Life Institute, said that the “deeply saddening” scale of abortions taking place showed that the procedure was “anything […]
Independent TD Carol Nolan has dubbed NPHET’s call to extend the lockdown as “fanatical,” and said that they have reached “zero common sense.” Speaking this week, the Laoise-Offaly TD slammed NPHET’s call to delay the re-opening of indoor dining for restaurants, cafés, pubs, and summer camps for children “for weeks.” “I think there will be […]
32 towns and villages across Ireland have begun what protestors are calling Monday Marchers – a weekly assembly taking place in opposition to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and calling for health equality in the State. Organisers said the protests “are organised and attended by ordinary citizens who have had little or no voice since March 2020 […]
An Irish-American billionaire says he has a €100 million plan to free the internet by building a blockchain-based alternative to Facebook Frank McCourt, a real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, says he is willing to pour $100 million to rebuild the foundations of social media, because he says Facebook and […]
42 consultants at the National Maternity Hospital have said that “misinformation” and “misunderstanding” around the planned move to the St Vincent’s campus could delay the creation of a “world-class” hospital. In a letter published in today’s Irish Times, the consultants, including the current master and three former masters, insist that all procedures will be available […]
Irish psychiatrists have expressed concern over the safety of patients with mental health problems, should Ireland legalise assisted suicide. Writing in the Irish Times, Chairwoman Prof Anne Doherty and Vice-Chairman Dr Eric Kelleher of the Faculty of Liaison Psychiarty, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland wrote a letter in response to a letter by Canadian doctors […]