A number of men angrily confronted Tánaiste Simon Coveney as he left the meeting, expressing their frustration with the party’s support for abortion and its immigration policies.
A People Before Profit candidate for Election 2020 in Dublin North West previously boasted of tearing down posters advertising a meeting by a rape survivors network, and posted photos of his actions on social media. Conor Reddy, a People Before Profit candidate for Dublin North West in the election, went on “a rampage” in the […]
Left-wing extremists, including masked members of Antifa, threw a smoke bomb during an attempted attack on a free-speech rally outside the Dáil, Saturday afternoon. At least one Antifa activist appears to have been arrested after a Garda was assaulted with a metal tripod leg during a attempted charge by left-wing extremists at the demonstration against […]
The heartbroken father of three young Dublin children found dead in their home in Newcastle last Friday has said they were “wonderful children” in an emotional eulogy at their funeral. “We often misuse words,” Andrew McGinley told the congregation. “When Ireland would lose a match, I used to say I was heartbroken. I now know […]
Brexit day is a hugely important day for Fine Gael in the context of this general election campaign, because in many ways it’s a day of genuine triumph for the Government. Whether the fears of societal collapse and economic catastrophe on foot of Brexit were ever based in fact, or whether they were exaggerated, the […]
In some ways, you have to feel very sorry for Fianna Fáil’s MEP Billy Kelleher. When he voted, as a TD, to abolish the offence of blasphemy, he probably thought he was increasing his own freedom of speech. What he didn’t realise was that the offence of blasphemy in Ireland was only abolished for mocking […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín says that, as Minister for Transport in next Cabinet, he would immediately address the “daily nightmare” of commuting for families. “Family life is becoming impossible as parents are forced to leave their homes before dawn and are returning after their children are in bed. They’re saying to me that they feel […]
There are plenty of voters and citizens who might feel that they have few reasons to shed any tears over the downfall of Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone. The Senator, who imploded her own political career two days ago by making extraordinarily offensive and false remarks about her own party leader, has racked up a […]
If you were to distil Ireland’s emergent culture wars down to their purest, most unadulterated essence, you probably couldn’t come up with a better few lines than this response to a questionnaire on cycling by the Chairman of Renua Ireland: TheJournal's first Election Q&A is up. We asked each party their policies on cycling in […]
A new report published today has revealed that 92% of renters in Dublin Docklands are coming from abroad to work in the city – and they are pricing locals out of the rental market. The Docklands Residential Report 2020 is published by Owen Reilly Estate Agency which sells and rents homes in the area. They found that […]
If you were the kind of person who bets, and if you had the chance to lay odds on which political party would produce the single dumbest policy of the General Election, you’d never go far wrong betting on Solidarity/People Before Profit. And if you’d made that bet, then today you would have won. A […]
Sinn Féín TDs have “zero” influence over the party’s policy decisions, according to a former representative, and TDs are told what to do by unelected party staff. In fact, Peadar Tóibín says, Sinn Féin’s TDs are not even allowed to chose their own parliamentary assistants and must represent the party rather than the people who elected them. The Aontú […]