Dr. Mary Higgins, a consultant at the National Maternity Hospital, has been criticised after photos emerged of her standing at a protest of “Abortion Angels” outside the building where she condemned a group of pro-life protestors for congregating yesterday.
Dr. Ebun Joseph is a Career Development Consultant at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, but also a prominent campaigner against racism, describing herself as “a race relations consultant, Career specialist & Life Coach who addresses Social Justice issues and advocates for equality.” If you’re one of those people who regularly listens to Irish […]
Senior gynaecologist Dr. Aoife Mullally has been appointed as the HSE’s clinical lead for abortion services in Ireland, having previously acted as Lead Consultant in the labour ward of the Coombe Hospital.
Minister for Health Simon Harris has only met with the board of the controversial Children’s Hospital twice in three years, it has been revealed.
Offaly councillors have clashed over the issue of immigration and asylum at their December meeting, with housing emerging as a key difficulty for some representatives. The Offaly Express reports that the exchanges arose over the adoption of Offaly’s new migrant integration strategy for 2020 to 2024. Cllr John Leahy (IND) thanked staff for work on the […]
A new study has found that the number of abortions on babies with life-limiting conditions has doubled since abortion legislation was introduced in Ireland in January of this year. The Irish Independent reports that a conference of the Irish Congress of Obstetricians, Gynaecology and Perinatal Medicine heard that the new law saw an increase in the number […]
If you’re short a present or two for Christmas then Thomas Barry has just what you need. The 34-year old from Tallaght is the owner of Thomas’s Trendy Socks, and his stall at the Dún Laoghaire Christmas Market is attracting a lot of attention this year. Thomas has Down Syndrome and other serious illnesses including a […]
Lisa Smith was granted bail today in the High Court as she awaits trial for suspected membership of a terrorist organization.
The Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland have issued a strong statement calling on the faithful to oppose the new abortion law. The Bishops say that “they wish to make clear that the new abortion law established under the provisions of the Northern Ireland Act 2019, is an unjust law. As a consequence, no one is […]
An initiative in County Mayo to transport people in need of cataract surgery to Belfast for treatment has been a huge success, the organiser says. The patients were treated at one of the best private hospitals in the North, and will be reimbursed under the cross border directive, a HSE supported scheme. “After waiting for […]
When even the UN, the world’s largest NGO (non governmental organisation) is noticing that Ireland has a vast number of NGOs, we might have a problem: “NGO” is sort of a misleading term, to be fair. Non-Governmental kind of implies, to the casual reader, that these are truly independent, civil-society driven organisations made up of […]
Séamus Healy, TD, on Climate Change: Climate change is a real and distressing phenomenon which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society. We only have to think of a country like the Philippines and, more recently, the Pacific island of Vanuatu, to see the utter devastation that climate change is wreaking on the most […]