66% didn’t vote.
The end of ‘outdoor summer’?
A campaign has been launched to revive the Irish Mass rocks. Religious charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Ireland has invited priests in each of the 26 dioceses of Ireland to celebrate the Eucharist at a Mass Rock located in their Diocese. They said “the intention of each of these 26 Mass Rock […]
Disability rights activist and Silent Witness star, Liz Carr, has spoken out of her opposition to legalising assisted suicide in the UK, after The Sunday Times expressed their support for making assisted suicide legal. In the UK, assisted suicide is currently illegal, where a doctor who assists a patient in their suicide could face up […]
Idir 1937 agus 1946, bhí an scríbhneoir Máirtín Ó Cadhain ag obair faoi scéim de chuid An Gúm ag bailiú focal agus leaganacha cainte as Gaeltacht na Gaillimhe. Le linn na tréimhse sin, chuir Ó Cadhain breis agus aon mhilliún focal d’ábhar chuig An Gúm, agus sin in ord agus in eagar faoi bhreis agus […]
Chaos on the streets again.
Covid-19 accounted for less than 1 per cent of fatalities last month in England.
Canadian doctors have warned that the experience of their country shows that euthanasia laws expand rapidly, as do the number of people being killed by euthanasia. Dr Luke Savage and Dr Keily Williams from Alberta wrote to the Irish Times in response to an admonition not to allow any references to “slopes, slippery and otherwise” in […]
The Italian government has banned the use of the Covid-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca for people under 60, in a reversal of policy prompted by the death of a 18-year old woman. The about-turn on the use of the jab is said to have thrown the vaccination campaign into chaos, according to the Times. Camilla […]
A man who was praying at an abortion clinic in Coleraine while offering what he described as “financial, physical and emotional support” to women “suffered a violent attack at the hands of people described as “pro choice activists”. The pro-life activist was approached by a man who doused him – and the poster of a […]
There were sharp exchanges in the Dáil last night in the debate on the Climate Bill, as rural TDs railed against the Minister for the Environment, Eamon Ryan, for what they described as a “complete attack on rural Ireland”. Kerry TD, Michael Healy-Rae, said that the Minister was “ecstatic with himself when he announced the shutting down of […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the cost of implementing the Government’s Climate Action Bill will cost €20 billion annually for next 10 years. That’s ten times the cost of the National Children’s Hospital at €1.74 billion or almost twice the amount of revenue generated annually by Irelands Corporation Tax at approximately […]