Senator says extending powers neither “necessary or proportionate”.
The HSE has warned that information, including personal patient records, may appear on the internet in the near future now that the hackers’ deadline has passed with the ransom unpaid. The group, known as ‘Wizard Spider’ and believed to be from eastern Europe, gave the State until Monday, May 24th to pay $20 million dollars […]
RTÉ has been slammed for seeming to call for online censorship and asking for more State funding during an Oireachtas Committee meeting. RTÉ’s Head of Strategy, Rory Coveney (who is the brother of Fine Gael Deputy leader Simon Coveney) spoke to an Oireachtas committee meeting last week about what he called “online harm,” and welcomed […]
Thousands of people across Donegal have protested what they see as the failure of the government to fully support families whose houses are literally crumbling apart because of the use of Mica material in construction. Some said that the scheme put in place by the government might leave households whose houses were falling apart because […]
A flotilla of Irish fishermen are set to descend on Cork port in protest of new EU regulations which have been dubbed “unmanageable”. The protest, which is scheduled for 7 a.m. on Wednesday the 26th of May, will begin in the harbour and proceed up the river in what organisers call a “show and tell” […]
A Meath West TD has accused the government of negligence in their duty of care for patients’ health and their data, claiming that the Cyber Security Centre had a budget last year of just €5 million, compared to €16.9 million spent on PR by the Dept of the Taoiseach last year. Peadar Tóibín, who is also […]
No mention of reporting sexual assault.
No deaths due to Covid-19 reported yesterday.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that it is “distasteful” that law firms are “licking their lips” at the idea of suing the State after stolen patient records have begun to be found leaked onto the dark web. Speaking to Newstalk breakfast, Donnelly described the ransomware attack as “extensive” and “despicable”, adding that it […]
Sky Ireland will warn that levies on content could become “distortionary”.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said that Taoiseach Micheál Martin and his government have become an “existential threat to democracy,” in response to the announcement that the government’s emergency powers would be retained for a further six months. “I am very concerned by the leaks from the Cabinet yesterday regarding the extension of the emergency […]
Imagine, for one fleeting moment, that an eminent scientist who had regularly appeared in the media throughout the pandemic took to social media one day to declare that having considered the matter, he had developed suspicions – without any evidence, mind you – that the Covid vaccines might cause autism in children. Do we think […]