Offaly councillors have clashed over the issue of immigration and asylum at their December meeting, with housing emerging as a key difficulty for some representatives. The Offaly Express reports that the exchanges arose over the adoption of Offaly’s new migrant integration strategy for 2020 to 2024. Cllr John Leahy (IND) thanked staff for work on the […]
A new study has found that the number of abortions on babies with life-limiting conditions has doubled since abortion legislation was introduced in Ireland in January of this year. The Irish Independent reports that a conference of the Irish Congress of Obstetricians, Gynaecology and Perinatal Medicine heard that the new law saw an increase in the number […]
More than three million people have signed petitions on various platforms calling on Netflix to cancel a film which Christians say is deliberately offensive and an “unacceptable provocation”. The work, by Brazilian YouTube group, Portas Do Fondos was bought by Netflix but has been condemned by Christians worldwide who decided to buy its production and distribution […]
JK Rowling has been slammed by transgender activists after she defended a UK charity worker who was fired for insisting that biological sex exists and is immutable.
If you’re short a present or two for Christmas then Thomas Barry has just what you need. The 34-year old from Tallaght is the owner of Thomas’s Trendy Socks, and his stall at the Dún Laoghaire Christmas Market is attracting a lot of attention this year. Thomas has Down Syndrome and other serious illnesses including a […]
Lisa Smith was granted bail today in the High Court as she awaits trial for suspected membership of a terrorist organization.
The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland have issued a strong statement calling on the faithful to oppose the new abortion law. The Bishops say that “they wish to make clear that the new abortion law established under the provisions of the Northern Ireland Act 2019, is an unjust law. As a consequence, no one is […]
An initiative in County Mayo to transport people in need of cataract surgery to Belfast for treatment has been a huge success, the organiser says. The patients were treated at one of the best private hospitals in the North, and will be reimbursed under the cross border directive, a HSE supported scheme. “After waiting for […]
Bray boxer Katie Taylor has picked up yet another major accolade, this time being awarded by the Boxing Writers of America Association as their 2019 ‘Female Fighter of the Year’.
Parents of primary school children say that they have not been re-assured by the Education Minister’s comments around the issue of radical changes to sex-education in schools, because parents and teachers are still in the dark about what will actually be on the curriculum. Last week, Minister Joe McHugh’s said that the ethos of schools “will […]
A demonstration opposing a free speech Rally at the Dáil today saw religious charity Trócaire standing with masked Antifa members. Hundreds of protesters for and against free speech lined the street on both sides of Kildare Street. “I have a direct debit with Trócaire that I’m cancelling on Monday,” one pro free speech demonstrator told […]
A petition supporting Selina Soule, a schoolgirl athlete from Connecticut who has lodged an official complaint because she and others are now being forced to compete against biological males, has now attracted almost 175,000 signatures. The complaint, and the supporting petition, point to growing sense of unease about the impact of new policies on women’s […]