Figures released by the Minister for Health show that the number of e-referrals made by GPs to Rapid Access Clinics (RACs) between January and August this year stands at 126% of the activity for the corresponding period in 2019. The numbers were released to Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD, who asked a parliamentary question on […]
When I was small, one of the most exciting events of the year was going to the Fleadh Cheoil with my dad, Séamus. Thousands of people thronged the streets in Buncrana or Listowel or Kilkenny during those golden, halcyon days of traditional music, and most of them seemed to know him. It would take an […]
Last week, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, interrupted another TD repeatedly in the Dáil as she spoke about why she believed vaccine passports were scapegoating “those people who decided for whatever reason that they didn’t want or couldn’t take the vaccine”. Donnelly accused Independent TD, Verona Murphy, of spreading “anti-vax information in the chamber” after she […]
Tonight, one of the most sublime of Ireland’s sean-nós singers, Sarah Ghríallais, will sing at the Cobblestone, the pub and performance venue in Smithfield in Dublin that has been in the news of late. While the Cobblestone will be familiar to many as a pub where brilliant and authentic traditional music can be heard, not […]
At the weekend, Sinn Féín leader Mary-Lou McDonald told the party’s Ard Fheis that partition was nothing to be celebrated. That view is shared, according to the polls, by the majority of Irish voters, so McDonald was on safe ground. The incomprehensible folly of the government parties in firstly seeking to commemorate the RIC, and then being seen […]
Does he even care?
A profound and brilliant musician
Senator Sharon Keoghan rightly called them out for what she described as their hypocrisy.
Shot in 1929
Reality not what is portrayed
Research never said religion “irrational”
The plebs who voted by a 80% majority are racist and awful, and the political elite are therefore working to overturn their wishes.