Words like “breastfeeding” and even “mothers” are out, as a major British hospital trust pushes a new ‘trans friendly’ policy. Midwives at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust have been told to stop using terms including “breastfeeding” and “breastmilk”- and even ordered to ditch the term mother and use the phrase “birthing parent”. […]
The Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard that Dublin’s National Children’s Hospital is unlikely to be completed before May of 2024. Speaking at the committee hearing, David Gunning, chair of the National Paediatric Health Development Board, said that the hospital’s “lack of advancement” is because of “under-resourcing on the project by the main contractor”, […]
Northern Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Michael McBride, has said that covid-19 restrictions could last until 2022, saying that it may not be possible to ease regulations until “70 to 80%” of the population is vaccinated. Speaking of the virus’ UK variant, he compared the new strain to “finely-tuned sports car”, which he said would […]
Another entry in the very large file of evidence that exists for Aodhán O’Riordáin being Ireland’s most shameless politician: We are against the Investor Court System in #CETA and how it will impact on everything from workers’ rights to environmental standards. That’s why @labour TDs and Senators agreed today we will vote against the Govt […]
“I do actually find it inexcusable that staff on nursing homes or those roles would not take the vaccine, to be frank.”
Prof. Luke O’Neill told RTÉ viewers that plastic bubbles could allow people to attend gigs again, after a Flaming Lips concert took place with the audience standing in zorbs.
It’s fair to say that there is a significant cohort of the population who have, shall we say, some suspicions about the various vaccines for Covid-19, and their true purpose. If you’re in that cohort, then there’s little enough that’s likely to convince you. But let me offer you an argument anyway: If there was […]
According to the Financial Services Union (FSU), recent meetings with Ulster Bank have been “difficult and deeply troubling”, with a growing threat of the bank being closed or carved up. John O’Connell, the FSU’s General Secretary, said that Ulster Bank CEO Jane Howard refused to answer any questions in private meetings about recent media reports, […]
The Gardai are very busy at the moment, of course, with Covid 19 duties meaning that their force is spread thin across the country stopping people in their cars to ask them where they are going, as well as fining people at the airports, and on the beaches, and just about anywhere else you can […]
Every single Irish rugby player refused to “take the knee” for Black Lives Matter during Sunday’s match against Wales at the Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Before the match began for the Six Nations’ first round, an “anti-racism” message was played over the pitch. Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained mainstream traction last year, many athletes […]
Campbell had written on Facebook that he could not imagine the BBC allowing an all-white line-up on Songs of Praise.
The Irish College of GPs (ICCP) has amended its newly published transgender heath guidelines to remove statements which said that puberty blockers were “reversible”, and that oestrogen and testosterone therapies were “partially reversible”. The report now says that “There is limited research evidence available regarding the long-term effects of hormone and puberty blockers in children […]