The Bishop of Elphin has spoken out on the ongoing debate regarding the proposed move for the new National Maternity Hospital to a site at St Vincents. The Sisters of Charity offered to donate the site for free on a 99 year lease but the proposal has become mired in controversy as abortion campaigners believe […]
Chinese social media site WeChat has permanently banned almost all LGBT college accounts on its platform overnight, with no explanation to date given. WeChat, which is a social and messaging app as well as payment processor, has around a billion regular users, and is mainly used in Asia. This week, the vast majority of LGBT+ […]
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has upheld eight complaints against RTÉ over a sketch which portrayed God as a rapist during its New Year’s Eve countdown programme. Complainants said that the public broadcaster would not mock the Muslim or Jewish faiths in the way it did the Catholic faith. The sketch, described previously as being “deeply […]
Michael McNamara TD has slammed the government for failing to significantly expand the country’s ICU capacity in over a year since the pandemic began. The Independent Clare TD made the remarks yesterday in the Dáil during leader’s questions. Michael McNamara on the government's insistence on putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, while failing […]
A top UK doctor and public health consultant told an RTÉ panel that “we have no evidence of the effectiveness of masks in a community setting,” and said that masks have been rolled out without proper evaluation. Dr. Allyson Pollock, who was formerly the Director of the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, […]
It is not hard to feel sympathy for the organisers of the Dublin Marathon. Speaking to Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk’s Hard Shoulder last evening (an item in which yours truly also featured), lead organiser Jim Aughney said that the cancellation was not because the organisers lacked faith in the vaccine programme, or personally believed in […]
Fianna Fáil senator Robbie Gallagher has accused the government of “cutting off our environmental noses to spite our face” when it comes to climate policy and the banning of peat harvesting. The remarks were made as the senator spoke in the Dáil to Green Party senator Pippa Hackett about Ireland’s native mushroom horticulture industry. “The […]
Mattie McGrath TD has said that vaccine passports will create a “medical apartheid” and turn families against each other in a blistering Dáil speech this week. Speaking during the Order of Business on Tuesday, the Independent Tipperary TD had strong words for the government on the lack of debate regarding the certs. Mattie McGrath demands […]
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Una Mullally’s savage, over the top, and downright nasty attack on Fine Gael by-election candidate James Geoghegan in this week’s Irish Times should be a wakeup call for the party, but it will not be. For most of the last decade, Fine Gael has sought to win the respect, admiration, and votes, of people like […]
Green Party Climate Minister Eamon Ryan has indicated that indoor dining may not fully open until August, beyond the already-delayed 19th of July date previously given. Speaking this morning, Ryan said that while he expected digital travel certificates to be implemented on July 19th as previously outlined, other elements of re-opening would likely not be […]
The Romanian man who brutally murdered an elderly Limerick woman in her own home “flitted in and out” of the country to commit offences, a prosecuting senior counsel said. Alexandru Iordache targeted 78-year-old Rosie Hanrahan in a supermarket in December 2017, following her to her home before breaking in and subjecting her to a horrifying ordeal. […]