Chinese social media site WeChat has permanently banned almost all LGBT college accounts on its platform overnight, with no explanation to date given. WeChat, which is a social and messaging app as well as payment processor, has around a billion regular users, and is mainly used in Asia. This week, the vast majority of LGBT+ […]
EU could halt pandemic recovery payments.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has upheld eight complaints against RTÉ over a sketch which portrayed God as a rapist during its New Year’s Eve countdown programme. Complainants said that the public broadcaster would not mock the Muslim or Jewish faiths in the way it did the Catholic faith. The sketch, described previously as being “deeply […]
“This law makes me feel I am better off dead, I know I’m not, but that’s how it makes me feel,” Heidi Crowter told a large group of people with Down’s syndrome and their families outside British High Court yesterday. Ms Crowter (26) who has Down Syndrome, was speaking on the first day of the […]
“Emotional time” for rioter, lawyer claimed.
Residential schools.
The Romanian man who brutally murdered an elderly Limerick woman in her own home “flitted in and out” of the country to commit offences, a prosecuting senior counsel said. Alexandru Iordache targeted 78-year-old Rosie Hanrahan in a supermarket in December 2017, following her to her home before breaking in and subjecting her to a horrifying ordeal. […]
“Hollowed out” sector.
Inadequate services.
A new modelling study which examined blood clot risk from the AstraZeneca vaccine has found that the dangers to young people in relation to blood clots are greater than the benefits the vaccine might confer. If the entire population took the AstraZeneca jab, it concluded, while ten deaths in young people (aged 18-39) might be prevented by the vaccine, […]
55 local Rallies for Life have taken place across the country urging the public and TDs to #RethinkAbortion in view of the shocking outcomes of the abortion regime so far. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, the local rallies took place in lieu of the national pro-life march on the first weekend of July , but organisers […]
Outspoken CEO of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, has accused NPHET of putting out a “variant-scariant narrative” which he says “will be shown to have been completely bogus”. Leary made the comments in an open letter to Minister Eamon Ryan and in an interview with Newstalk’s Hard Shoulder. He took aim at what he perceived as the government’s mis-management of […]