Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, failed to show up in the Dáil yesterday to answer questions from TDs who said that he needed to take urgent action on what they described as “shocking” and “barbaric” revelations about the practice of late-term abortion in Ireland. Nine TDs supported or spoke on the topical issues debate on late-term abortion in Irish […]
A new group made up of various far-left organisations is formally launching today in order to campaign against Ireland’s “far right”. “LeCheile” is made up, as you might guess, of all the usual suspects: The National Women’s Council, The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Sinn Fein, The Union of Students in Ireland, Gaza action Ireland, The […]
A promise that Simon Harris made to student nurses may come back to haunt him, after he joined the government in voting against paying student nurses in placement during the Covid crisis. Earlier this year, the then Minister for Health has announced that student nurses would be paid for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the nurses retention bill to be scrapped this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said that the treatment of nurses who were being asked to pay a €100 rentention fee in a difficult year was in sharp contrast to the bonus Scottish nurses were receiving. “In […]
For most of the past two decades, Ireland’s economic strategy has been predicated on keeping corporation tax low, and attracting multinational companies to invest in Ireland. By and large, it’s worked a treat, with some downsides that we’ll come to in a moment. But attracting companies is one thing. Attracting skilled workers to lead and […]
Aontú Rep for Cork North-West, Becky Kealy, has critiqued the government’s continued abandonment of rural pubs, and the return of arbitrary regulations of the pub trade which has already been through so much this year. Ms Kealy said that “In Cork, rural Pubs were waiting in anticipation for the government announcement regarding restrictions for the […]
What’s the world coming to when a senior Sinn Fein TD can’t even gloat about the deaths of 18 young men without people getting all upset? Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley was all in favour of praising the Warrenpoint ambush just two days ago. But now? Mary Lou has had a word, and Brian is…. […]
Senator Ronan Mullen will be hosting a public webinar this Friday, the 4th of December, at 1pm. The webinar, titled “Can China Change? China’s treatment of the Uyghur people and what we can do about it”, aims to inform the public about China’s treatment of ethnic minorities, particularly Uighurs, in China’s Xinjiang region. In what […]
“The issue of indemnity”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told reporters last week, “is under discussion”. If you’re not familiar with what he meant by the issue of indemnity, here’s a quick refresher: In August, media outlets reported that vaccine makers were lobbying the EU for an indemnity in return for providing the vaccine: The European pharmaceutical […]
“Who the hell do they think they are giving us permission to have 50 people in? They should mind their own business and let us live our lives and let the people be responsible for their own health.”
The 2005 Booker Prize winner has launched a scathing attack on the “woke” movement, saying it has become a “religious cult”.
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]