Mairéad Tóibín, Aontú’s representative in Dublin Bay South by-election, has confirmed her party commenced High Court proceedings this afternoon over the decision by RTÉ to exclude the Dáil party from the all of their by-election broadcast debates. Tóibín said RTÉ, as the national broadcaster, had “a particular responsibility” to ensure that election coverage is “fair, […]
EirGrid has warned of “rolling blackouts” in the winter as Ireland shuts down power stations nationwide and depends more and more on unreliable green energy sources. The government is being forced to provide emergency generators to Dublin in autumn because of fears regarding the city’s grid stability later in the year when power consumption increases […]
Survey.
This evening the Dáil will debate the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018. It is being brought forward by the Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle after having been initiated in the Seanad in 2018 by former Senator Collette Kelleher. The Bill, which has already passed final stage in the Seanad (October […]
Shots fired.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald refused to rule out locking down the entire island of Ireland over the Delta variant during an interview this week. Speaking to RTÉ during the Six One News, McDonald was asked about how the country should respond to the Delta variant. “Before Christmas, when we saw the rise of […]
Credit to TDs for extracting this fairly revealing statement from Ireland’s benevolent dictator. But let us face facts: When Holohan says “September or beyond”, he means “or beyond”: NPHET would have recommended keeping pubs and restaurants closed for indoor dining until the “end of September or beyond” had they not proposed a vaccine pass, the […]
Mandatory Hotel Quarantine was introduced in Ireland at the start of 2021 as part of a Government strategy to help get the country back to normal. Six months on, the policy has completely failed, because Ireland remains the most restricted country in Europe. The policy was introduced, let us not forget, on the basis of […]
What a spectacle.
A priest who said that he will not be following what he called an “off the cuff” statement by an Tánaiste Leo Varadkar on cancelling Communions and Confirmations due to Covid-19 has received widespread support on social media. Fr Michael Toomey tweeted Mr Varadkar to say he was “planning to celebrate the two Confirmations in my […]
Discrimination?
Hats off to the Government PR machine for releasing the second annual lot of abortion figures on the same day that they reversed course and announced that indoor pints would not, after all, be on the menu. One story dominated the news, the other didn’t get much of a mention. Had it gotten a mention, […]