Local people in Tullamore are being “leapfrogged” for housing and services, and are ‘angry and frustrated’ at the lack of consultation with the community before the announcement that a new direct provision centre would be opened, according to local politicians. Carol Nolan, the Independent TD for Offaly has called on the Department of Justice to suspend proposals to […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.
Newly elected Sinn Fein TD Reada Cronin has had her twitter account, and all 125,000 historic tweets on it, deleted this afternoon, following a report by this website that she had sent a series of controversial and anti-semitic tweets in the years prior to her election. Gript’s Gary Kavanagh reported this morning that Deputy Cronin […]
An Irish mother of two has shared her story of spending sixteen hours on a hard chair in Beaumont hospital while suffering the after effects of treatment for a serious infection that left her unable to breathe. Sarah Ryan was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from Quinsy, an aggressive form of tonsillitis that can […]
Reada Cronin, a newly elected Sinn Fein TD for Kildare North, regularly made controversial statements in the years before she was elected, including statements where she said she would be ‘unsurprised’ if ‘loads of judges’ were paedophiles; that she had thought a picture of monkeys in a building was a photo of the Israeli embassy […]
Politics is supposed to be a simple enough activity. The basic idea is that various parties put forward ideas for how the country should be governed, the voters choose between the various offerings, and the people who get the largest number of seats in the parliament then have the power to form a Government that […]
Mattie McGrath is a politician a lot of people deeply admire (full disclosure, since people writing about politics really should tell you these things: He got my number one vote last Saturday) but come on now, this is a bit of a rush of blood to the head, isn’t it? “Independent Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath […]
A strange sight this morning, as Sinn Fein’s newly elected TDs arrived in Dublin for a Parliamentary Party meeting to talk about their strategy ahead of the first meeting of the new Dáil: Sinn Féin gathering for a meeting of its expanded parliamentary party. Not sure who this new fella in the middle is. Anyone? […]
When photographer Sam Rowley first published his ‘Station Squabble’ photo, it was so good many people thought it had to be photo-shopped. But it was real, and has now won an award from the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The perfectly-timed shot of two tiny mice seemingly caught in a life-or-death […]
One of the benefits of Sinn Fein’s electoral triumph is that the Irish public will soon see ideas beloved of the left for a generation put, at along last, into practice. For two decades now, for example, the Irish people have been told that if Sinn Fein was in Government, US troops would have to […]
In Ireland, the pundit class moves like a herd. Nobody wants to get too far away from the conventional wisdom, even when the conventional wisdom settles around a nonsense idea, as it is today. Fianna Fáil sources are now telling people that the party does not want to do business with Sinn Fein, and is […]
Cullinane insisted to reporters today that he had never distanced himself from the IRA and would not be retracting the comments.