It’s been a rough morning for Fianna Fáil’s by-election candidate in Dublin Fingal, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee. After this website revealed on Saturday evening that the Senator had sent a number of openly racist tweets, she found herself on the front page of the Irish Independent this morning, claiming amongst other things that she had been […]
The government’s commitment to providing meaningful guidance on alternatives to abortion has been exposed as an utter sham. In fact, the ‘support’ that is being offered through the HSE MyOptions Helpline is even worse than that. For the evidence we now have actually suggests that your local takeaway has more staff than the national Helpline […]
Independent TD Carol Nolan has said communities throughout Offaly and the midlands have been left devastated by the shock announcement from ESB management that both the West Offaly Power and Lough Ree Power Stations are to cease the generation of electricity at the end of December 2020. Deputy Nolan was speaking after ESB issued a […]
Fianna Fáil by-election candidate, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee complained in 2011 that she had to sit beside a “black, Brazilian dwarf” on a Dublin Bus journey. Several tweets have emerged from Senator Clifford-Lee, dating to 2011 and 2012, and have been circulated on twitter by political opponents. Several of these tweets refer to travellers in particular, […]
Another tale of happy, modern Ireland, brought to you by the Government’s Health Research Board (HRB): “The latest drug treatment figures from the Health Research Board (HRB) show a 50% increase in the number of cases presenting for cocaine treatment between 2017 and 2018. While opiates remain the most common drug reported among cases treated […]
The Taoiseach was out and about this morning, giving a speech to the annual conference of the immigrant council of Ireland. Immigration has been something of a hot button of late, with controversies over direct provision erupting across the country. The Government is committed to introducing hate speech legislation to try and clamp down on […]
The two teenage boys found guilty of the murder of 14-year old Ana Kriégel last year, have been sentenced. The 15 year-old referred as Boy A has been sentenced to life in detention, with a review of his sentence in 12 years. The other party to Ana’s murder, referred to as Boy B who is […]
The new educate together secondary school, which is due to open in Castletroy, Limerick in 2021, will include fully gender-neutral toilets, its principal has confirmed. However, these toilets will be accompanied by traditional male and female toilets, should students wish to use them. Limerick Educate Together Secondary School is due to accept 1,000 students. The […]
One of the leading campaign groups in the 2018 abortion referendum says that Facebook’s Irish partner, The Journal.ie, cannot be considered a credible fact-checker because it amended its own fact-check findings during the referendum with results that benefited the Yes campaign. The Life Institute says that during the referendum The Journal rewrote and altered its previously published […]
The HSE has confirmed that getting doctors to perform abortions is a significant issue causing delay in rolling out abortion provision in Ireland. CEO of the health service, Paul Reid, said that as of August this year, nine maternity units were not performing abortions while ten hospitals were. “There are issues with regard to the geographic […]
The accident is thought to have taken place this morning at the Children’s Hospital construction site beside St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.
A leading commentator has warned of a growing climate of hostility towards religion in Ireland, after a church had graffiti daubed on its doors, the latest in a spate of attacks around the country. The doors of University Church on Stephen’s Green in Dublin were daubed with graffiti Tuesday evening. It comes after an arson […]