In most other western countries, the release of this HSE memo by former Simon Harris appointee Dr. Marcus De Brun would be leading the news everywhere. Not in Ireland, though, where the top story everywhere is about schools re-opening in September, which is almost four months away. And poor Dr. De Brun’s tweet of the […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, has said that after 10 years of Fine Gael government the historical Moore Street battle site where the final battles of the 1916 Rising took place is shrouded in grime and dereliction. “The most important battle field site of the republic is now a place where people urinate and defecate and traders are assaulted,” […]
The largest representative student organisation in Ireland, the Union of Students Ireland, has re-elected Lorna Fitzpatrick as president. Fitzpatrick, 26, was elected yesterday with 193 votes after running unopposed for the position. Her re-election comes mere months after the Burkean’s “Antifa Project” exposé, where student journalists posed as members of a radical Left group, Irish […]
It’s one thing, you know, for politicians to lie to you and me. We’re used to it. We don’t expect any better. We’re so used to it that we can actually translate them automatically. For example, “well Miriam, I’m glad you asked me that” means “I am now going to answer a totally different question”. […]
Here’s the Chinese Embassy in Ireland, reporting on today’s events in China, where the Government is proceding with its efforts to crush democracy in Hong Kong: “China’s parliament has overwhelmingly approved directly imposing national security legislation on Hong Kong to tackle secession, subversion, terrorism and foreign interference in the city. The National People’s Congress voted […]
A new campaign is seeking to make Irish women aware that a medical abortion can be reversed and the life of their baby saved. The Second Chance awareness campaign from the Life Institute explains how the effects of the abortion pill can be safely reversed for mother and baby. “Abortion pill reversal offers women a choice […]
You may remember, last week, that the Chinese Embassy in Ireland took out a full page advert in the Irish Independent on the issue of the Coronavirus, to tell us all how splendid China is, and how magnificent their response to the Coronavirus has been. A member of the public made contact with the Standards […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín has said that 10,000 extra abortions have taken place because of the repeal of the 8th amendment – and that the government had refused any proposals to make the legislation “even more marginally humane” in recent formation talks. The Southern Taskgroup on Abortion and Reproductive Topics an organisation claiming to represent […]
The Taiwanese community in Ireland yesterday continued their campaign of donations to long-term care facilities in Ireland with the donation of a shipment of PPE to Cheshire Limerick. The donation consisted of 350 medical masks, 5,000 pairs of medical gloves, 200 pairs of googles, 200 pieces of protective clothing, and 10 infrared thermometers. Since March the […]
He would share the same burial ground as Christopher Columbus, whilst wearing the habit of the Franciscan monks he had built a close relationship with in Ireland, helping them to establish numerous monasteries throughout the country.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help four children in Kildare left tragically orphaned after their father died of Covid-19 55 year old Miguel Plangca from the Philippines had lived in Naas for two decades, working in Green Isle Foods and sending home money to his family. However, when his wife died of […]
There are several ways by which a person might illegally immigrate to Ireland. They might, for example, come here on a temporary work visa that entitles them to be in the country for a period of time, and then stay here long after that visa has expired. They might simply sneak in on the back […]