Paying taxes is a deeply unpleasant business. The Government, by force of law, comes and takes up to half your income, in order to give it to other people. Often times, that money is overtly, and flagrantly, wasted. Other times, it is given to people and organisations and causes which do not deserve it. Most […]
Senator Ronan Mullen has asserted that Ireland’s foreign policy has more to do with trade than morality or human rights, and has questioned Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney’s relationship with China and Iran. The senator made the remarks while speaking in the Seanad on Tuesday. “I raise today the strange attitudes of the Department of […]
Leo Varadkar said Fine Gael is the party to “unify our island”.
Mica Protest in Dublin and March to Dáil Éireann Photo credit: Gript
“Peaceful protest” in the offing.
The data is in, and it is overwhelmingly positive: NEWS — Our new analysis shows for the first time that two doses of the #COVID19 #vaccines are highly effective against hospitalisation from the #Delta (B.1.61.2) #variant. Read more: https://t.co/6z67CW85Zw pic.twitter.com/oyRFghHpXw — UK Health Security Agency (@UKHSA) June 14, 2021 Pfizer and Moderna – the MRNA […]
A map created by inviting home owners in Donegal to tag their houses has shown the shocking extent of homes affected by Mica. Highland Radio’s Greg Hughes said it was thought the map might only represent 10% of the houses crumbling with defective blocks. Ryan Stewart has created a map of homes in #Donegal affected my #mica. Home owners were […]
One of the subjects that is consistently absent from real debate in Ireland is the question of civil liberties, and the limits that should be placed on the power of the state. Yesterday, the Irish Government announced that it intends to make it an offence to refuse to provide the Gardai with the password to […]
Aontú Candidate for the Dublin Bay South Bye Election, Mairead Tóibín has slammed the ongoing revelations about Government and Opposition parties conducting fake polls as evidence of a deep malaise in Irish politics. She said there was a that is rife in modern Irish politics, where citizens are seen as passive outsiders to be used […]
“Our community is in a very tense situation at this moment in time.”
On Friday afternoon, the news broke that Stobart Air, the regional operator responsible for many flights between Ireland and the UK, was going out of business, becoming the highest profile business casualty of the pandemic to date. Naturally, opposition politicians took to the airwaves to blame the Government for not providing enough “supports” for the […]
Gardaí can also arrest someone until identity details are verified.