Peadar Tóibín has slammed TDs for voting for Assisted Suicide and then, within minutes, voting against against disability services re-opening. Deputy Tóibín said: “This bill on assisted suicide was brought forward by Gino Kenny TD in the middle of a global pandemic in which we are being told to protect each other, the vulnerable and […]
Donegal, Clare, Kilkenny and Louth were reportedly among several counties that experienced multiple failures in their test cases.
Charles the Great, known to history as Charlemagne, was crowned King of the Franks on this day, October 9th, 768AD. As King, he would go on, over the next 32 years, to unite most of Europe, and found the Holy Roman Empire. Successive wars brought the Kingdom of Lombardy (modern Italy) under his control, and […]
The Rural Independent Group in the Dáil have slammed what they described as the Government’s “complete ineptitude at addressing the grotesque interest rates being charged by banks on Irish homeowners with mortgages”. They point to Central Bank figures which show Irish mortgage holders were charged interest over the past twelve months at 2.83%, compared to […]
Wednesday’s vote on Assisted Suicide in the Dáíl was greeted with dismay by many people living with a terminal illness and their families. The Bill allows doctors to help people with a terminal illness to die by suicide. Critics point out that a suicide request could be made after a diagnosis is received and that […]
A new report has shown that even as economies are contracting and concerns about employment rise, the richest people in the world have seen their wealth rocket by a massive 27% during the COVID-19 crisis. A report by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to a staggering $10.2 trillion […]
October 7th, 1571: The Ottoman Empire has been expanding westwards for over a century. In 1453, over a hundred years earlier, it had conquered Constantinople, and destroyed the Byzantine Empire. Now, the most powerful military force in the world, it threatens the very heart of Christian Europe. Across the continent, children are warned about the […]
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has slammed NPEHT for the irresponsible manner in which they have leaked their recommendations that the entire country should be moved to level 5 to the media. The Independent TD has said that such news is detrimental to the business community and wider society and has called on NPHET to be […]
Deputy Tóibín later wrote that: “In my 10 years in Leinster House I have never seen such an absence of democracy.”
The leading medical experts who provide care to people with terminal illnesses and those at the end of their lives have come out strongly against Assisted Suicide being legalised in Ireland. Senior palliative care specialists from the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants’ Association (IPMCA) have written to TDs to say that they are opposed to “any […]
Deputy Michael McNamara has shed renewed light on the manner in which many countries, including Ireland, are counting Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
Muhammed Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the so-called “thrilla in Manila”, on this day, October 1st, 1975. The fight, the third and final between Ali and Frazier, got its name from Ali’s rhyming boast that the fight would be “a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila.” The […]