The survey, by the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants’ Association, found that almost nine of out ten of its members responded to the question on the legalisation of Assisted Suicide, with every one of those who did opposing the proposal.
Trinity Professor Luke O’Neill has said that although not all citizens will be forced to accept a Covid-19 vaccine, international travel might only be allowed for those who have been vaccinated.
The television licence, as regular readers will know, goes almost in its entirety to RTE, with a small amount set aside for TG4 and Irish language programming. It’s also an absolute abomination. And it seems that a lot of Irish people have come to the same conclusion: THE “BROKEN” TV licence system is costing about […]
Let’s face it: In one, very limited respect, this isn’t the worst idea in the world. January is everyone’s least favourite month, right? Maybe if we move Christmas, we can retain all the festive cheer of December, but keep the mince pies and mulled wine and Mariah Carey singing inappropriate lines about Santa Claus until […]
It is very unusual for the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil to make any interventions whatever in political matters, given that the chair is generally sworn to neutrality. Which makes this one, then, all the more notable: Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghaíl said he was refusing to allow debates on an “inordinate number of complaints […]
Proposals to extend coronavirus restrictions in the north of Ireland for two more weeks have been blocked by the DUP. Health Minister, Robin Swann, had recommended keeping the measures in place until 27 November, but after a day of fraught meetings the DUP used its veto to block the proposal. This constitutes a rare use of the […]
The figures in relation to elder abuse, released yesterday by the HSE, are simply astonishing. Here’s Newstalk with a summary: The health service’s National Safeguarding Office received almost 12,000 ‘concerns’ of abuse of vulnerable people last year. Some 3,337 related to adults over 65-years-of-age – a 9% increase on the year before. One third (33%) […]
As the Covid lockdowns continue in all parts of the island, there continues to be criticism of the heavy-handed approach adopted by both jurisdictions. The northern lockdown is due to end on Friday, but there is a strong possibility that it will be extended. First Minister Arlene Foster said earlier that she hoped that there […]
A Romanian man who was collecting €3000 a month in benefits scammed two elderly pensioners of more than €300,000, cleaning out their life-savings, the Cork Criminal Circuit Cork heard. Brudut Iosca (38) of Relic Road, Kilbeggan, Co Westmeath conned two separate pensioners after he told them various sob stories and repeatedly preyed on their good nature and […]
The publication, last evening, of letters between the Chief Justice, Frank Clarke, and Mr. Justice Seamus Woulfe, in which Clarke tells Woulfe that, in his opinion, Woulfe should resign, have caused a major political headache for the Government. On the one hand, the politics of this situation are fairly straightforward: Woulfe is a villain, who […]
Nothing congeals in Ireland quite so quickly as conventional wisdom, and in the days since Joe Biden was declared President Elect by the US media, the conventional wisdom in Ireland has hardened like concrete: He’s going to shaft the British on Brexit and plant his flag firmly in the old sod of Ballina – take […]
An Aontú representative for Cork North West says she welcomes the High Court challenge to open up churches, as the closure of religious services is a ‘restriction of human rights’. Becky Kealy was part of an initiative led by young people which sought to keep churches open for Mass during the restrictions. She presented a […]