This might help out those in Government who don’t want to move to stage five. It will also, paradoxically, strengthen NPHET by showing that Holohan still has considerable influence, even without a stage five lockdown: Breaking – the GAA is set to announce the immediate suspension of club games at all levels across the island […]
On Friday, the Law Society of Ireland wrote to its members to announce a new policy of formally discouraging lawyers to begin letters using gendered language. According to Law Society President Michele O’Boyle, who describes the move as “an important change to make our communications more inclusive”: “The use of ‘Dear Sirs’ as a salutation […]
The Irish commentariat is united this morning, in its view that Dr. Tony Holohan has finally gone too far. Level five? He must be joking, is the general tone in the newspapers, on the radio, and on social media. That’s understandable, and it might even be correct. Be in no doubt: Level five would represent […]
It’s harder and harder not to be far-right these days, isn’t it? At this point, it might be easier for our friends in the rest of the media to provide a list of positions that are not “far right” than it is to itemise every single one that allegedly is. The latest announcement comes today […]
In many ways, it’s surprising that it took this long for him to contract it. That’s not a comment about him personally, but about the job – he’s the President of the United States, in an election season. Even in normal times, he’s probably meeting twenty to thirty people a day sitting right across a […]
Not just any assisted suicide campaigner – this is Gail O’Rorke, who, you might remember, was acquitted in 2015 of helping her friend, Bernadette Forde, take her own life. She was on the hard shoulder on Newstalk yesterday, and was very clear about what she thought of the assisted suicide bill. Too restrictive, she says, […]
These figures are just for those who missed out because their results were wrongly downgraded. They’re by no means the only students who were completely screwed by the Government’s incompetence, as we’ll explain in a moment: Yesterday it emerged that about 7,200 Leaving Cert grades were affected by errors in the calculated grades system. It […]
The Limerick Leader, yesterday: AN Irish feminism organisation has condemned the Irish Prison Service’s decision to detain a biological male who identifies as a female, in the women’s wing of Limerick Prison. Barbie Kardashian,18, of no fixed abode, is currently before the courts accused of making threats to kill two people. Kardashian was refused bail […]
Sinn Fein’s Rose Conway Walsh had a bone to pick with the Taoiseach yesterday, pointing out that the programme for Government does not mention a united Ireland: Firstly, for context, the question asked by SF's Rose @conwaywalsh about why the new Shared Island unit in the Department of the Taoiseach isn't planning for unity itself: […]
Confession: Two weeks ago or so I decided that no, I wasn’t going to sit up into the early hours of the morning to watch two cranky seventy year olds shouting at each other in America. And I was absolutely intent on keeping that promise, until Virgin Media rang yesterday and asked would I review […]
Micheál Martin? Kicking a controversial issue over to a special committee to report back in a year or so? Nah, can’t be right. Breaking: Government to table an amendment to Dying with Dignity Bill to allow a special committee examine issue…could delay passage of bill up to a year.. @Ginosocialist informed by ministers @HMcEntee and […]
Local Councillor Eddie Hoare here, with photographic evidence that will have them tearing their hair out over in NPHET: Spanish Arch, Galway tonight. Numbers will inevitability continue to rise. I’d expect Level 3 restriction before the end of the week…. pic.twitter.com/cBLUoJOfj9 — Mayor of Galway – Cllr. Eddie Hoare (@EddieHoareFG) September 28, 2020 The social […]