A 13-year old boy with a diagnosis of autism and a history of violent and aggressive behaviour has been stuck in Temple Street Children’s Hospital for almost seven months, because the HSE is refusing to fund a residential care place available for him. Daniel Hurley’s distraught parents say that keeping their child in Temple Street […]
Under a deal struck between Russia and Turkey in Sochi yesterday, Russian border police and Syrian soldiers will now patrol a safe-zone extending along the entire northeastern border of Syria, creating a 30km-deep buffer zone into the country’s territory.
Pro-life activists have protested the SDLP on the Ormeau Road, Belfast today, because of what they described as the party’s “betrayal” of voters on the abortion issue.
The SDLP have walked out of the Stormont Assembly and stymied an attempt by the DUP to introduce a bill preventing the British government from imposing abortion on the north of Ireland. Pro-life groups said that while Sinn Féín’s support for the extreme abortion law was already established , the actions of the SDLP were […]
The transgender lobby is being accused of “erasing women” by insisting that symbols representing femininity be removed from sanitary towels. Women took to social media to express outrage after it became known that sanitary products maker, Always, had removed the ‘Venus’ symbol representing women from its wrapping. Transgender activists, born female but now identifying as male, said they […]
Creaven was arrested on Wednesday morning in Dublin under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act and spent some 18 hours in custody before being released.
An Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said that Maria Bailey TD should “be allowed to move on” after “paying a “very heavy price for making a mistake”, following renewed criticism of the Fine Gael TD as it emerged that she was forced to hand back expenses to the Dáil. The Dun Laoghaire TD grabbed the headlines […]
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been slammed for hypocrisy after she said Brexit was being foisted on the north while her party works to enable Westminster in forcing abortion on the region. Yesterday, Deputy McDonald said: “There is no such thing as a good Brexit. Brexit is being foisted on the north of […]
300 people packed a meeting in Borrisokane in north Tipperary last night to hear that accommodation for 84 migrants and asylum seekers was being made available in the town under a “done deal”. Residents and local representatives at the meeting were critical of the “secrecy” surrounding the move by the Department of Justice, who had […]
The suicide rate among 10 to 24 year olds in the US rose by 56% between 2007 and 2017 according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, overtaking the number of young people killed by homicide around 2010.
A public meeting in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim has heard that up to 130 refugees and migrants will be given accommodation in new apartments in the town, with 100 arriving within two weeks. Just 914 people live in the small Leitrim town, but the Department of Justice will make 20 three and four-bed apartments made available to refugees […]
Thousands of Dutch farmers have descended on The Hague in their tractors after new rules were implemented to clamp down on nitrogen emissions from the agriculture sector