New audio has emerged which seems to reveal a high-ranking member of the Union of Students Ireland (USI) expressing support for bugging a Young Fine Gael student meeting. The USI, which claims to be a representative body for 374,000 students across Ireland, has since announced an investigation into Michelle Byrne, the Union’s Deputy President, as […]
The Office of the Ombudsman for Children spent over seven hundred thousand euros on “Office Administration”, and a further quarter million euros on “Seminars and Publications” in 2017 and 2018, despite having only 20 employees, writes David Mullins: The Office of the Ombudsman for Children (OCO) does valuable, necessary work. Indeed, the Ombudsman, Niall Muldoon, […]
One of the country’s leading medical experts has said that Ireland needs to “adopt the extreme measures now” or risk facing the “horrific” situation the Coronavirus has created in Italy. On the Virgin Media Tonight Show last night Professor John Crown, a well-known cancer specialist, answered “Yes” when asked if the country needed to “Close everything” and “Stop travel”. […]
There are days, watching the Irish Government’s response to Coronavirus, where you start to feel relatively confident in it for a while. Then something like this happens: Department of Health has said that general visiting restrictions that some hospitals & nursing homes have introduced, should be lifted. The National Public Health Emergency Team has not […]
Photo of USI Executive 2019-20. From: USI Facebook account Multiple members of the leadership of the Union of Students in Ireland [USI], which has an income of over €1 million a year and represents 374,000 third-level students, have been shown to have been in contact with, and in multiple cases offered to help, a group […]
It’s important to start this piece with the official advice: Buying overpriced facemasks probably isn’t going to save you from the Coronavirus, according to the experts: “It seems kind of intuitively obvious that if you put something—whether it’s a scarf or a mask—in front of your nose and mouth, that will filter out some of […]
A top medical expert has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is “the biggest global healthcare crisis that we will encounter in our lifetime” and strongly urged the government to do more to address the crisis. Dr Carmen Regan, a maternal medicine Specialist, told Claire Byrne Live on RTE that Ireland “will be Italy if we do what […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, had said the escalating COVID-19 crisis is a “national emergency” and called on the Dáil to reconvene to ensure measures are taking to deal with the fallout. “In my view we need to be 100% honest with people. We have a history of withholding information from people. Adults are entitled to […]
To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
New results from a major international survey show that a big majority of women aged 18-50 with children under 18 years of age would prefer to work part-time if given the chance. The Iona Institute says the findings show that government policy must be fair to the child-care choices of all parents. The survey finds […]
An interesting report this morning from TheJournal.ie: THE NUMBER OF people deported from Ireland last year who were here illegally or who had failed in their asylum application rose significantly to 293. That was almost as many deportations as had taken place in the previous two years, when 140 (2017) and 163 (2018) people were […]
One of Fianna Fáil’s most senior politicians has called for all major parades for the St Patrick’s Day Festival to be cancelled given the current COVID-19 crisis. Éamon Ó Cuiv tweeted that “It seems strange that the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, and other major parades elsewhere in Ireland, would go ahead given the current […]