Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has slammed NPEHT for the irresponsible manner in which they have leaked their recommendations that the entire country should be moved to level 5 to the media. The Independent TD has said that such news is detrimental to the business community and wider society and has called on NPHET to be […]
On Friday, the Law Society of Ireland wrote to its members to announce a new policy of formally discouraging lawyers to begin letters using gendered language. According to Law Society President Michele O’Boyle, who describes the move as “an important change to make our communications more inclusive”: “The use of ‘Dear Sirs’ as a salutation […]
Deputy Tóibín later wrote that: “In my 10 years in Leinster House I have never seen such an absence of democracy.”
The leading medical experts who provide care to people with terminal illnesses and those at the end of their lives have come out strongly against Assisted Suicide being legalised in Ireland. Senior palliative care specialists from the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants’ Association (IPMCA) have written to TDs to say that they are opposed to “any […]
The Dublin based Press Up group has written to government ministers claiming that there is “no empirical, objective and verifiable evidence” to justify the shut-down of their businesses.
It’s harder and harder not to be far-right these days, isn’t it? At this point, it might be easier for our friends in the rest of the media to provide a list of positions that are not “far right” than it is to itemise every single one that allegedly is. The latest announcement comes today […]
Deputy Michael McNamara has shed renewed light on the manner in which many countries, including Ireland, are counting Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
Not just any assisted suicide campaigner – this is Gail O’Rorke, who, you might remember, was acquitted in 2015 of helping her friend, Bernadette Forde, take her own life. She was on the hard shoulder on Newstalk yesterday, and was very clear about what she thought of the assisted suicide bill. Too restrictive, she says, […]
These figures are just for those who missed out because their results were wrongly downgraded. They’re by no means the only students who were completely screwed by the Government’s incompetence, as we’ll explain in a moment: Yesterday it emerged that about 7,200 Leaving Cert grades were affected by errors in the calculated grades system. It […]
The Limerick Leader, yesterday: AN Irish feminism organisation has condemned the Irish Prison Service’s decision to detain a biological male who identifies as a female, in the women’s wing of Limerick Prison. Barbie Kardashian,18, of no fixed abode, is currently before the courts accused of making threats to kill two people. Kardashian was refused bail […]
The Garda Commissioner has said gardaí do not have the power, and are not seeking the power, under Covid-19 regulations to break up parties or gatherings in homes parties if no breaches of the criminal law are taking place. Commissioner Drew Harris said he would not be in favour of granting members of the force […]
The Taoiseach has told the Dáil that the Department of Education has found two errors in the Leaving Certificate calculated grades system.