A People Before Profit TD has called on the government to use emergency powers to forcibly seize private property to house Ukrainian refugees. The comments were made yesterday in the Dáil by Richard Boyd Barrett TD during a discussion on the rapidly depleting housing options for Ireland’s Ukrainian arrivals. Richard Boyd Barrett calls on the […]
It has emerged that a total of 250 convictions have been secured for offences committed under the Harassment/Stalking sections of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 for the years 2015 to 2021. The convictions during this timeframe applied to 233 people. The relevant section, (10 (1)), of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person […]
Ms Kardashian, 20, off no fixed abode, has pleaded not guilty to a total of 11 charges.
Selective outrage.
Those of us old enough and foolish enough to recall the abortion referendum of 2018 in Ireland will be familiar with the concept of “Gilead” and the ubiquity, in that campaign, of Handmaids Tale costumes. Drawn from the pages of Margaret Attwood’s masterpiece feminist novel, Gilead is a fictional dystopian world where women of reproductive age […]
“The aim of such an instrument is to protect public health.”
This week, a draft opinion from US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was leaked, which would – if its core remains as part of the final ruling – overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision which found that abortion was a Constitutional right. Cue absolute consternation, wailing and gnashing of teeth, not just from American abortion campaigners, but […]
“We have to go with the science.”
“We have parallel societies in Sweden.”
Another week, another poorly constructed study people seem to want me to look at.
Concerns.
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