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Dr Martin Feeley was sacked by the HSE despite a lifetime of service to healthcare, an achievement previously recognised in his appointment as clinical director of the HSE’s Dublin Midlands Health Group. His offence was to state that, in his medical opinion, for most people Covid-19 was no worse than the flu, and that the […]
Last night we heard that NPHET is recommending that a full Level 5 lockdown be implemented, which caused the head of the HSE, Paul Reid, to say that while there were concerns ‘about trends on Covid19’, there were also “impacts of severe and regular restrictions in society on the public health, wellbeing, mental health and […]
New figures from the Netherlands have shown that suicide numbers went up by 34% in that country after assisted suicide was legalised – at a time when the numbers of deaths by suicide fell in neighbouring countries in the same period. Professor Theo Boer, who at first supported the euthanasia law and was a member […]
Last year, a Traveller family parked their trailer in a layby up the road from where I live. They had a fair bit of space, and a small generator was used to give light and heat. We’d often pass by walking the dog, or going to the shops, and sometimes we’d nod and say hello to […]
For those just landed from Mars, us women have a cervix – which is the lowest part of the uterus in the reproductive system of human females. Again, in case you’re just meeting Earthlings for the first time, human females are women and having a cervix is part of what makes you a woman. This biological reality is being […]
People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, doesn’t seem to know the contents of his own Bill – the proposed legislation he will introduce to the Dáil this afternoon which seeks to make Assisted Suicide legal. In a debate on Newstalk 106 yesterday, the Dublin West TD stumbled repeatedly when challenged by commentator David Quinn about […]
Last month, hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition asking Netflix to cancel a movie, Cuties, after a poster advertising the film showed young girls in sexually suggestive poses, leading critics to say it “promoted paedophilia”. Last night, Netflix uploaded ‘Cuties’. It’s not as bad as people thought it would be: it’s worse. This […]
In 2019, Ireland’s birth rate fell even further, sliding to the lowest level ever on record according to the Central Statistics Office. That means we’re having far fewer children now than we did when this was a much poorer country, with less resources and supports available to families. If children, according to the UN, are an expression of […]
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A new tide of pro-life energy, dubbed the Blue Wave, is sweeping across South and Central America, and achieving welcome victories for mothers and babies. Last month, the Mexican Supreme Court voted down a injunction which would have required the state of Veracruz to legalize abortion. The injucntion, granted by a lower court, was a bid to […]
Last Saturday, thousands of people took part in a rally calling for many of the Covid-19 restrictions to be lifted, and arguing that mask-wearing and vaccinations should not be mandatory. Whatever your feelings on the aims of the rally, it’s safe to say that the demonstration was much bigger than the media had expected it to […]
In the last few days we learned that the Department of Social Protection has been busy tracking down people who have had the temerity to take a holiday while in receipt of Covid-19 welfare support – and punishing them by cutting off that payment. 104 people have had their Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) stopped “as […]
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