One dreamed as a girl of being a teacher, playing the role so accurately she created field trip permission slips for her friends’ parents to sign. Another was a born performer, always thrust to the microphone by her friends. Still another had regular dinners with royalty, serving an elaborate feast created by mud. A brand-new […]
Figures obtained by Independent TD, Carol Nolan, suggest that almost a thousand women changed their mind and did not proceed with abortion because the three day waiting period gave an opportunity for reflection.
The Iran-Iraq war, which would last for eight years and claim the lives of about a million people, began with an Iraqi invasion of Iran, on this day, September 22nd, 1980. The pretext for the invasion was the revolution in Iran, which had toppled the Shah and replaced him with a Shiite Islamic dictatorship. Saddam […]
HOW many Catholics were attending Mass before the pandemic began? How many have returned in the meantime? How many will come back when this is all over? These were some of the vital questions asked in a new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute. Here are the main findings: 27pc of Catholics were […]
Julian Assange was offered a “win-win” deal to avoid indictment and extradition to the US, according to the journalist’s barrister fighting his case in a London court.
A local residents group in Donegal claim they have not been given a “fair say” after planning permission for a new development was allegedly passed without sufficient consultation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, died over the weekend, triggering an American political crisis. But the first woman to sit on the court, Sandra Day O’Connor, is very much still alive, and celebrates the thirty-ninth anniversary of her confirmation, today, September 21st. O’Connor took to the bench in […]
Former Attorney General and justice minister, Senator Michael McDowell has slammed NPHET’s advice to send Dublin into a fresh lockdown as flying in the face of science. “It hasn’t been scientifically justified, it’s wrong, it flies in the face of the strategy that this government announced two weeks ago that they were going to open […]
A new law passed in the North-Western Nigerian state of Kaduna will mean that men convicted of rape will face castration and a life sentence in prison, while anyone molesting child under the age of 14 will face the death penalty. Women who molest children over 14 will reportedly have their fallopian tubes removed. The […]
The party has confirmed that certain elected representatives “received letters from the police this morning asking them to present for voluntary interview.”
Legendary blues singer, Van Morrison, is to issue three new songs that protest against the Covid-19 lockdown, where he describes what he sees as ‘government overreach’ as the behaviour of ‘fascist bullies’. The famed artist, known for songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Gloria, has accused the authorities of “taking our freedom” in a sharp […]
Last week, #CancelNetflix was trending on social media for days as outrage kept building after the streaming service uploaded the movie ‘Cuties’ which was slammed for “normalising paedophilia”. The hashtag seems to have produced a massive surge in subscription cancellations for Netflix according to research company YipitData, who told Variety that cancellations in the U.S […]