The BBC has caused controversy by banning white people from applying for a trainee job working for some of its popular programmes – including Springwatch and The One Show. The one-year trainee production management assistant role with the BBC’s Science Unit in Glasgow is ‘only open to black, Asian and ethnically diverse candidates’. According to the […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has launched a scathing attack on the Governments controversial Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021. Deputy Nolan was speaking after she made a significant contribution opposing the legislation which was passed by the Dáil last week. The Bill will now move to the Seanad where […]
Since assuming office, the government have crucified the Irish fishing industry through massive fish quota losses and a raft of new stringent regulations and penalties, Michael Collins TD has said. Speaking with the Rural Independent Group, the Cork South West TD slammed what he described the government’s “gigantic failures” – to protect Ireland’s fishing interests, […]
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 […]