Well, look, whatever, eh, melts her butter, I suppose: British model Lottie Moss has revealed that she is pansexual. During an Instagram Q&A on Monday, Moss — who is the younger sister of supermodel Kate Moss — responded to a follower asking if she would prefer to date a woman. “I’m pansexual so I don’t […]
Lobby groups for Canadians with disabilities are working hard to defeat a bill broadening the scope of euthanasia legislation. Under the current legislation, although some people with chronic illness want “medical aid in dying” (MAiD), they may not be eligible because their death is not “reasonably foreseeable”, in the words of the legislation. A new […]
Written by John William O’ Sullivan If you are familiar with political discussion in 2020 then you’ve probably heard the phrase the ‘Great Reset’. The Great Reset is a strange notion. If you put the term into Google, you will see New York Times articles denouncing it as a conspiracy theory next to Time articles […]
Dublin Zoo is urgently appealing for public financial support after the Government’s lockdown resulted in a 90% loss in revenue, it says. The Zoo – which is a registered charity – has running costs of about half a million euro per month. But most of this money is generated by gate receipts. On Wednesday October […]
A paper examining the practice of late-term abortion and feticide in Irish maternity hospitals paints a deeply disturbing picture of the brutal reality of Ireland’s abortion regime. Three medical professionals from various departments of University College Cork sought to look at the experience of 10 Fetal Medicine Specialists who provided abortion in Ireland in cases where […]
As we reported yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has introduced a bill to the Dáil which seeks to prevent the distribution of pornography to children by media companies, including internet service providers. It’s a worthy goal. Here he is, explaining it in more detail: Internet companies are providing hard core pornography to children as young […]
Dr Mike Fitzpatrick sympathises with the effects of the Covid pandemic lockdown on the elderly, but warns against older people disregarding the restrictions, not least because robustly proclaiming that the interests of young people should not be sacrificed to those who have lived much longer ‘gives succour to those who are inclined to the view […]
Who would have thought the Irish Independent, one of the oldest papers in the country, would be reduced to discussing whether babies can be “trans” in the “LGBTQIAAPK2S+ movement”?
What’s the point of this, exactly? GOVERNMENT WILL TODAY move to introduce a regulation that will give gardaí the power to fine people who gather outside to drink alcohol. The new fines will be separate to existing laws which already state it is an offence to consume alcohol bought in a closed container (like a […]
In the midst of a housing crisis that dominated the General Election earlier this year, and in a country with – at last count – ten thousand homeless people, Dublin City Council was last night presented with a plan to build 850 new homes in Coolock. 250 of these would have been social housing. The […]
Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
A Universal Basic Income, for those of you who don’t know, is a policy idea which would see the Government giving everybody in the country a guaranteed baseline amount of money every month, regardless of their financial circumstances. No matter who you are, you get a fixed amount of income every month from the Government. […]