Frederick Hunt, 74, pleaded guilty in the Dublin Circuit Court this week to producing and distributing hundreds of images of child pornography. Hunt, who is a retired Irish Times employee, was also found to have carried out illegal activities on his work computer in the Irish Times building in Dublin. He pleaded guilty to seven […]
The HSE has told nursing homes that some residents who are frail and elderly should not be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Gardaí have massively increased their enforcement of fines for breaches of the 5km travel limit over the weekend, promising greater presence on backroads which people have reportedly used until now to skirt around the main Garda checkpoints. The government has ordered that citizens remain at home unless they have to travel for work, school, or […]
Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
Angela Merkel has said the country could need 10 more weeks of hard lockdown measures in order to overcome the situation.
A group of medical and biological professionals has strongly criticised the growing trend to deny the reality of biological sex, saying that the claim that sex is neither fixed nor binary is “entirely without scientific merit”. In recent times, asserting that there are two sexes – male and female – and that gender is fixed and […]
Free-speech platform, Parler, posted online at the weekend, with CEO John Matze posting a message to “lovers and haters” “Hello world, is this thing on?” Mr Matze wrote, a week after the site, which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, was taken off line by Amazon Web Services and booted out of Google […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said there is widespread shock and anger at the sudden announcement by Bord Na Móna that it will permanently cease all peat harvesting and production. She said that the decision made “no sense .. given that solid fuels are now being imported into this country.” She said […]
Bloomberg.com has reported that 23 people have died in Norway a short time after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.
Parler, a social media platform which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, has urged the U.S. Western District Court to order Amazon to restore its service online. Parler also accused Amazon of being “motivated by political animus” and of acting “to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter”. Amazon Web […]