Aontú Councillor Denise Mullen who represents Moy in County Tyrone has revealed that she has been victim of an intense campaign of threats since last May’s local elections. She believes the threats began when her tormentor saw her private phone number on her election material. She says that she has received around 900 phone calls […]
Tyson Fury was not the only one getting ready for action this weekend.
Newly elected TD Holly Leah Cairns is the latest politician to fall foul of her Twitter activity.
There are, at the time of writing, 150 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Italy. Three people have died to date. The numbers are likely to rise, as well. It is estimated that the Coronavirus has an incubation period of at least two weeks – that is to say, you could be walking around feeling in […]
A furore has erupted about the emergence of a Sinn Féin briefing note which showed the party included figures who had been members of the Army Council in the party’s negotiating team in the talks on Irish government formation. Unelected party members listed in the note as negotiators include Martin Lynch and former Sinn Féin […]
Footage of a sulky race being held in the early hours of last weekend on the N7 near Citywest in Dublin has brought the issue back into the public spotlight. For those unfamiliar with the practice, here is a link to the N7 video which will give you some idea of what is involved. It […]
“They don’t see themselves as criminals. They’re just doing what they’ve done all their lives and their parents and grandparents did before them.”
A new poll has shown that only 5% of voters in Northern Ireland support introducing abortion to 24 weeks – which is what is being proposed by the Conservative government and Sinn Féin after last year’s vote to impose abortion on the region. The poll, organised by the University of Liverpool and Britain’s Economic and […]
Local people in Tullamore are being “leapfrogged” for housing and services, and are ‘angry and frustrated’ at the lack of consultation with the community before the announcement that a new direct provision centre would be opened, according to local politicians. Carol Nolan, the Independent TD for Offaly has called on the Department of Justice to suspend proposals to […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.
Newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin has had her twitter account, and all 125,000 historic tweets on it, deleted this afternoon, following a report by this website that she had sent a series of controversial and anti-semitic tweets in the years prior to her election. Gript’s Gary Kavanagh reported this morning that Deputy Cronin […]
An Irish mother of two has shared her story of spending sixteen hours on a hard chair in Beaumont hospital while suffering the after effects of treatment for a serious infection that left her unable to breathe. Sarah Ryan was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from Quinsy, an aggressive form of tonsillitis that can […]