The Final Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality, which was chaired by Catherine Day, states that the Assembly deliberately went beyond the mandate provided to it by the Oireachtas. The Assembly decided that restricting their work to “women and men, boys and girls” as the Oireachtas resolution which created the Assembly ordered them […]
Credit where it is due: this is an interesting, and what Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister fame would have called “courageous” proposal, first reported by Hugh O’Connell of the Independent: “speaking at Government Buildings on Tuesday, Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said she had asked her officials to examine “pay-related benefit” where a person’s […]
Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has said he “stands over” his decision to have Ireland borrow €36 billion since 2020, saying “it was the right thing to do,” and signalling his intention to raise carbon tax. The remarks were made during an RTÉ One segment this week regarding the soaring budget deficit due to the covid lockdown. […]
“We have to do something to stop the decline.”
A Cork TD has accused the government of “allowing an act of piracy” after what he described as the “harrassment and intimidation of a Castletownbere fishing trawler by a Spanish fishing vessel last weekend”. Rural Independent TD for Cork South West, Michael Collins said the government had failed to take action after the Irish fishing […]
“I almost died from it, so it’s time the HSE started taking the negative reactions a bit more seriously.”
Liam Herrick, CEO of the ICCL. Credit: ICCL For years the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has claimed to be an entirely independent organisation which does not accept government support or money. A Gript investigation, however, found that between 2011 and 2019, the ICCL received somewhere in the region of €2 million in public […]
Details of the Government National Economic Recovery Plan that have been leaked to the Irish Independent have revealed that more €500 million of the EUs COVID related Recovery and Resilience Facility to Ireland will be spent on reducing carbon emissions. This means that more than 50% of the €1bn loan provided by the EU will […]
It feels like a very long time ago now, but it is worth remembering, and reminding ourselves, that the original point of lockdowns was to reduce social contacts between people, and limit opportunities for Coronavirus to spread amongst the population. The success of lockdowns was supposed to be measured in scientific terms – the flatness […]
A stupendous success, says Stephen Donnelly: Mandatory hotel quarantining has worked effectively Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says. He tells the Seanad that 4,616 people have entered hotel quarantine here, 178 tested positive for Covid-19 and 59 cases associated with variants of concern were detected. — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) May 31, 2021 178 cases of Covid, […]
Over 6,500 hours of Covid-19 content is to be broadcast under the terms of the grants.
Pro-life groups have challenged the government to do more to provide women with real alternatives when faced with an unexpected pregnancy as research showed nine out of ten Irish family doctors are not providing abortion. “It’s a significant finding, as clearly doctors – the people most likely to best understand the reality of abortion – […]