Joe Loughnane, a People Before Profit election candidate in Galway and the founder of the Galway Anti-Racism Network [GARN], has been expelled from People Before Profit following a meeting of their Steering Committee. The Steering Committee said that there was no place in PBP for Joe following ‘his violent attack on a former partner’. Mr […]
Ireland’s Six Nations tie against Italy in Dublin has been called off by the IRFU after the National Public Health Emergency team determined that it should not proceed on March 7th.
Ireland has the highest rate of families with three or more children in the EU, a report has found. Despite this, our fertility rate is now below replacement level. The study found that in 2017, 7 per cent of Irish households had three or more children. This was more than twice the average across the 28 member […]
Between 5pm and midnight this evening, while you were enjoying your pancakes, two flights arrived at Dublin Airport from Milan, Italy. A third arrived from the southern Italian city of Bari. A commercial flight usually carries between 150-200 passengers. In other words, about 450 people arrived into Ireland from a country where thousands of people […]
Aontú Councillor Denise Mullen who represents Moy in County Tyrone has revealed that she has been victim of an intense campaign of threats since last May’s local elections. She believes the threats began when her tormentor saw her private phone number on her election material. She says that she has received around 900 phone calls […]
Tyson Fury was not the only one getting ready for action this weekend.
Newly elected TD Holly Leah Cairns is the latest politician to fall foul of her Twitter activity.
There are, at the time of writing, 150 confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Italy. Three people have died to date. The numbers are likely to rise, as well. It is estimated that the Coronavirus has an incubation period of at least two weeks – that is to say, you could be walking around feeling in […]
A furore has erupted about the emergence of a Sinn Féin briefing note which showed the party included figures who had been members of the Army Council in the party’s negotiating team in the talks on Irish government formation. Unelected party members listed in the note as negotiators include Martin Lynch and former Sinn Féin […]
Footage of a sulky race being held in the early hours of last weekend on the N7 near Citywest in Dublin has brought the issue back into the public spotlight. For those unfamiliar with the practice, here is a link to the N7 video which will give you some idea of what is involved. It […]
“They don’t see themselves as criminals. They’re just doing what they’ve done all their lives and their parents and grandparents did before them.”
A new poll has shown that only 5% of voters in Northern Ireland support introducing abortion to 24 weeks – which is what is being proposed by the Conservative government and Sinn Féin after last year’s vote to impose abortion on the region. The poll, organised by the University of Liverpool and Britain’s Economic and […]