Mica crisis
Ban on peat harvesting in Ireland
Carol Nolan says energy policy is nonsense
An Tánaiste’s office Leo Varadkar has released text conversations he had with Simon Coveney and Katherine Zappone around her appointment and the #MerrionGate controversy. Text messages between Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney & Katherine Zappone on #MerrionGate pic.twitter.com/l4ta0cNLhW — Kieran Cuddihy (@kierancuddihy) September 1, 2021 The tweets make it clear that: 1. Katherine Zappone talked to Tánaiste […]
He’s previously said that political correctness is “stifling” creativity and that there’s no such thing as a “woke joke”.
Annual cost of child attending secondary school is €1,500, on average.
No response from Minister Donnelly
The hashtag #NoThankYou has been trending worldwide all day. Here’s why. The Olympic Games have attracted a new kind of controversy this year as women faced what many of them saw as unfair competition from transgender athletes who were born male. One of those athletes is New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who at 43 years old, would normally […]
Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly has indicated that pro-life protests outside abortion centres will not be outlawed under new legislation, a move that has been welcomed by pro-life activists. Abortion campaigners had sought to ban peaceful and often prayerful outreaches outside GP offices or hospitals, despite Gardai saying that no issues had arisen. Pro-life groups said […]
A prominent medical journal has published an article arguing that parents should not have “veto power” in decisions around their children wanting to embark on medical treatment to change gender. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics last month, bioethics professor Maura Priest (who is a philosopher and not a medical doctor) said that in […]
The broadcasting regulator has found that two programmes broadcast by Newstalk FM breached the Broadcasting Code in relation to impartiality because the presenters expressed their own views and advocated a partisan position on abortion. The Newstalk Breakfast show breached the broadcasting code, when presenter Ciara Kelly expressed strong support for abortion provision, the regulator found. “I would […]
The EU worked to ensure that China was not openly criticised at the recent G7 summit for using slave labour in Xinjiang. “EU leaders blocked efforts to name and shame Beijing for using slave labour,” the Times reports. It says that Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, along with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Ursula von […]