Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said that churches feel “singled out” as a target for stricter application of the social distancing rules. Deputy Nolan says she has written to the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, and the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, urging that a far greater level of discretion be given to individual […]
Local activists who help maintain and upkeep the statue of republican Séan Russell in Fairview Park have said they feel Leo Varadkar’s call to have the statue taken down may have prompted others to deface the monument. On Monday, the statue was defaced by being painted with the rainbow flag colours, usually associated with the LGBT […]
Clever: Sinn Féin has proposed giving every adult and child a government funded gift voucher to spend in pubs, restaurants and hotels to kick-start the tourism industry. Under the €1bn scheme every adult would be given a €200 voucher and every child would get €100 to spend in local businesses that sign up to the […]
This is getting remarkably little scrutiny, after Irish Times scoop-getter general Fiach Kelly reported it last night: The Greens have widened the eligibility for members who can vote by telephone on the PfG. Was previously only allowed for those outside the country. Now members who have not received ballot paper can vote by phone. https://t.co/UKsBU23wJG […]
A Scottish court has fined an Aberdeen man for calling his former girlfriend’s new partner a “leprechaun” and writing a threatening email. The court found it was a racially motivated insult. The Evening Express reports that: Terry Myers, 41, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court over the email, which made reference to the woman’s new […]
Aontú leadar, Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the reopening of cancer screening programmes as a matter of urgency and expressed his shock at the fact that the HSE are advertising cervical check services which they know have been cancelled by the government. Deputy Tóibín said: “Back in March a decision was made to cancel […]
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has sharply criticised the government’s move to restrict attendances at masses to 50 people, asking “Do we have to return to our mass rocks to be able to celebrate the Eucharist?” Ireland has been slower than many other countries to allow centres of faith to reopen. “The restriction of 50 people […]
The Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil, Éamon Ó Cuiv, has said the party’s vote is “collapsing” and that it will become “irrelevant” if it enters into government under the programme currently being put to the vote by the party members. Responding to an opinion poll published in the Irish Mail on Sunday which showed Fianna […]
Prominent Irish Comedian David Reilly has been publicly accused of rape, emotional abuse, and the secret recording of his sexual partners, and has publicly responded to the claims of emotional abuse and the secret recording of sexual partners by saying that the claims had a “huge amount” of truth to them. Mr Reilly is well known in the world […]
OH NO IT’S NOT happening, says Green Dun Laoghaire TD Ossian Smyth: Green Party's Ossian Smyth TD says M20 will not happen within the next five years, says it is not in favour of increasing capacity between Cork and Limerick #iestaff — Daniel McConnell (@McConnellDaniel) June 18, 2020 OH YES IT IS, says Fine Gael […]
Two ways of looking at this: On the one hand, it’s the personification of the electoral price the Greens will pay for entering coalition. If Saoirse McHugh, of all people, can’t support them, then how likely is your average suburban dripster to do so? On the other hand, given her record of contradicting the party […]
There’s not much reason for the average person outside of Cavan and Monaghan to know the name of Shane P. O’Reilly, or to raise much of an eyebrow about his abrupt resignation of the Fianna Fáil whip yesterday, but that doesn’t mean it’s not exceedingly noteworthy. Cllr. O’Reilly is a well known and popular figure […]