At current trends the Government is likely to miss, by a substantial margin, its target of administering 1.25 million doses of vaccines by the 31st of March. We had administered, as of the 2nd of March, 460,640 doses. Hitting this target would require us to administer 789,360 doses over a 29-day period, a rate of […]
Confiscation is not the official term, of course, but what’s a better word for this carry on? PARENTS WHO HAD to submit their own passports as part of the application for their child to get a passport may have to wait as long as six months to receive their own back. Furthermore, anyone who had […]
Umbrella NGO Le Cheile has retweeted a Twitter post calling to “gather forces now” and sweep anti-lockdown protesters “off the streets when the time comes.” Le Chéile, an umbrella organisation for a range of taxpayer funded NGOs and leftwing political movements, which describes itself as “a cross-sectoral alliance working together to challenge the far right […]
Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned that tax increases are “very likely” after the covid-19 pandemic, in a total contradiction of what Táinaiste Leo Varadkar said just 2 weeks before. Speaking on Thursday the 4th of March at an ESRI event, Donohoe stated that the government would be moving to reduce the budget […]
The HSE has confirmed that it will continue to facilitate medical interventions for children who are seeking to change their sex, despite the landmark Tavistock ruling in the United Kingdom which found that it was “highly unlikely” that children under 16 would be able to provide fully informed consent to the procedures involved. Tavistock is […]
The sex offender’s victim was a four-year-old boy whose mother had started a relationship before the abuser transitioned.
Only 5,780 doses of vaccine were administered on Monday of this week. Low numbers over the past few weekends, and Mondays, has led to the Government missing its weekly vaccination numbers for the last two weeks running. The Government has blamed those failures to hit targets on supply issues but that does not appear to […]
Photo credit: Keresaspa on Wikimedia Commons, (CC BY-SA 3.0) Unionist paramilitary organisations have told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that they are officially withdrawing their support for the Good Friday peace accord out of anger for the Northern Ireland Protocol. Signs were spotted in County Tyrone, reading “Our forefathers fought for our freedom and rights […]
In an interview with Virgin Media, Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has said that he would be “very surprised” if the UK was able to achieve its stated targets for re-opening the British economy, and refused to give a similar timeline for Ireland. “I would be very surprised if [the UK was] able to meet those dates, […]
In a move that would seem to be deeply embarrassing for everyone involved Baybars Orsek, the Chief Executive of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), the group which accredits the Journal.ie as a Facebook fact-checker, has told Gript that one of the Journal’s recent fact-checks does not meet the criteria to be considered a fact-check and […]
It’s good journalistic practice, as a general rule, to ask a person for comment before you write about them. But before sitting down to write this piece, last night, the only question that this writer could think to ask acting President of the University of Limerick, Kerstin May, was this: Have you lost your mind? […]
The Rural Independent Group has welcomed Seachtain na Gaeilge and called for a renewed focus on the future of the Irish language, saying a language defines a people, a culture and that “both are inseparable”. “Seachtain na Gaelige provides an opportunity to showcase our language and shine a light on the need for the State […]