Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
Peadar Toibín TD has expressed his “vehement opposition” to the government’s emergency power extension bill, and slammed the opposition for what he called “collaboration” with the government on lockdown. “My political party, Aontú, is vehemently opposed to this Bill and I will be voting against it, as I did in its previous incarnation,” the Deputy […]
Irish fishermen say that a Spanish boat attempted to ram their vessel yesterday in Bantry Bay in what was seen as an attempt to intimidate Irish fishing vessels as tensions escalate around fishing rights off the Irish coast. Fishermen called for The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Naval Service to take action to protect […]
Statistics released this morning by the Central Statistics Office show that the number of registered deaths in the state in 2020 was 31,765. That represents an increase of 631 or just over 2% year on year. The number of deaths with Covid as an “underlying cause” was 1,672, the CSO said. The number of registered deaths […]
The enormous cumulative drop in the Irish birth rate was revealed in figures from the Central Statistics Office today, which will add to concerns about a shrinking and ageing population leading to a fall off in economic growth and an inability to meet future pension and healthcare needs. The number of babies born in Ireland fell […]
Sinn Féin’s Health Spokesperson, David Cullinane TD, has boasted in the Dáil that the opposition have given FFG “remarkable” support as regards covid-19 and the State-imposed lockdown, even despite the “huge difficulties” for workers and families caused by those policies. David Cullinane, Sinn Féin, boasting about how remarkable the opposition parties in the Dáil have […]
“So relationships are really, really bad for the Irish government as a consequence.”
Tipperary TD, Mattie McGrath has said that Dr Tony Holohan told him “we are dealing with a pandemic, we will do the lockdown and do the science later,” when he challenged the Chief Medical Officer on the science behind the continued closure of churches in the lockdown. Deputy McGrath said that there had been “no […]
Statistics requested from each Government Department by the Peadar Tóibín TD has reveal that there have been in excess of 2,000 data breaches from government departments since 2019, with over 400 of the breaches taking place in 2021. The Aontú leader said that “given the events of the past week, in terms of the HSE […]
The media pummelling of Fine Gael bye-election candidate for Dublin Bay South, James Geoghegan, shows no immediate signs of easing off. One might suspect, given the ferocity of the criticism headed his way, that some elements of the media who had a soft spot for snubbed ex-TD Kate O’Connell are taking a little bit of […]
The Sinn Fein Housing Spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, and the Sinn Fein TD for Cork North-Central, Thomas Gould, are seeking to compel the state’s Land Development Agency (LDA) to provide for the transfer of public land for the sole purpose of housing asylum seekers. The Sinn Féin TDs made the remarks during a meeting of […]
“In short, I consider that it was an outrageously bad libel.”