Independent TD Mattie McGrath has strongly condemned the inability of the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, to bring about a resolution to the ongoing beef crisis.
As George Hook said the other day, here he is again, trying to run the country by twitter: Harris today said that social media platforms should ban certain accounts and consider giving “badges” to accounts that are reputable and provide authentic information about vaccinations. “These are matters that I want to discuss with them, but […]
With three Muslim primary schools already present, Dublin will become the first county to have a secondary school with an Islamic ethos if the application by the Islamic Foundation is accepted by the Department of Education.
The authors claimed that almost two-thirds of investment into Ireland from abroad is “phantom” capital.
Boris Johnson has laid down the gauntlet to EU negotiators after promising there would be no border checkpoints on the Northern Ireland side of the Irish border.
A pro-life rally in Belfast on Saturday drew such a huge crowd that the police had to ask organisers to re-route the march to accommodate the estimated 20,000 people who attended. The rally, billed as March for Their Lives, was organised by Precious Life and Youth for Life NI to protest the decision by the British parliament […]
I know we’re all donning the green jersey, ready to fight a second war, if necessary, against the hated Brits, and lining up to denounce the fluffy-haired charlatan they have chosen as their Prime Minister, but, come on, was anyone really offended by the phrase “dead in a ditch”? Apparently we were, according to the […]
Tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Belfast today to protest the imposition of UK abortion laws on Northern Ireland by the dysfunctional Westminster Parliament. The protest was met by a small counter-protest of pro-choice activists who support the move to introduce abortion, for any reason, up to 24 weeks of pregnancy […]
The poet here is Kevin Higgins, a life-long socialist activist, who has a decently profitable sideline in the kind of to-the-barricades socialist poetry that the average Irish journalist finds deeply moving. The poem itself is, at face value, a eulogy for what might have been, had Mugabe not turned into one of the most destructive […]
Sometimes when RTÉ News covers a protest it deems worthy, the camera work gives the game away. Amnesty’s cringe-worthy disco to protest against Mike Pence was a case in point this week. Despite plenty of advance notice of this marvellous opportunity to protest the awfulness of the Trump administration, almost no-one bothered to show up. […]
Eamon Martin, the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has challenged Catholic politicians to defend the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. Archbishop Martin made the call while giving a keynote address at the Kennedy Summer School in New Ross, Co Wexford. “Catholic politicians, in particular, have […]
The new Compass series of discussion events is launching in Buswell’s Hotel on September 17th. Compass is a programme of events aimed at young adults between the ages of 18-35. Panel-based discussion events on a wide range of topical issues in Irish society – including the role of the State, the importance of feminism and […]