The Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance (IFSA) has released a scathing open letter blasting the Minister for the Marine, Fianna Fáil TD Charlie McConalogue, and accusing him of “abandoning [his] constituents and the people of Ireland’s coastal regions.” The IFSA, which was founded in February of 2021, describes itself as “an organisation established to give […]
On the 200th day of workplace lockdown, Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín has criticised the growing economic inequality taking place in Ireland, which he says is being excerbated by Covid and creating a two-tiered Irish society. “Covid-19 has highlighted and aggravated income and societal inequality both in our Ireland and globally. According to the CSO and […]
Labour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says he is open to the idea of a merger with the Social Democrats, as well as some elements of the Greens, the SDLP and Fianna Fáil, adding that his party had been “traumatised” after their electoral defeat in 2016. In an interview earlier this month with David Murphy on RTÉ’s […]
Rowling had been the subject of discussion during the broadcast after a tweet from Jeward criticising the Harry Potter author was read out.
The cost of renting in Dublin rose by 2.2 per cent in the last year, an effect of limited supply and business staff being sent to the capital by multinational companies according to the report.
Approximately 1.5 million dental patients are being exposed to a lifetime of embarrassment, decreased nutrition and loss of well-being according to the chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, Fintan Hourihan. Mr Hourihan made the remarks as part of his evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health Review of the Operation of the […]
It’s getting hard to count the number of disasters the Minister for Health has been involved in this week, and its only Wednesday morning. At the present rate, it is entirely possible, if not likely, he’ll have single handedly bankrupted the state by Friday. First, this week, we learned what he was up to in […]
When I put this down on the list of things to write about, yesterday afternoon, the plan was simple enough: Point out how ludicrously insane this statement is, and question how in the world it ended up being allowed to go unchallenged on the national broadcaster. But then, last night, we heard that the Government […]
Parents of deaf children have said they are “relieved and hopeful” after the Minister of State for Disability, Anne Rabbitte, paused the rollout of a scheme which would have meant that special schools lost their in-house speech and language therapists. Educators and parents had strongly opposed the removal of the on-site therapists from deaf schools, […]
The young adult died with a blood clot in their brain and a diminished platelet count, outcomes that authorities have recently associated as a “very rare” possible side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
NPHET has warned that the risk of a new wave of covid-19 over the summer is “considerable”. However, UK experts say a summer wave is no longer expected, and that their initial modelling was overly pessimistic. NPHET is set to warn the government that if Ireland eases restrictions too fast, there could be another covid-19 […]
The Green Party has called for increasing Ireland’s social welfare rate to €250 a week in a bid to end poverty – even as the national debt is set to soar to close to €250bn in coming years. Green Party Minister of State and TD Joe O’Brien says that he would “challenge anyone” to try […]