Mrs Bernie O’Hara, who is running as an Independent candidate in the Sligo-Leitrim-North Roscommon-South Donegal constituency, said that the move is another “slap in the face for the taxpayer” and that the government has stood by and allowed it to happen.
People everywhere were sickened and horrified last April when three teenage boys became the victims of an acid attack in Earlscourt Housing Estate in Waterford. A large group of older boys, most around 18/19 years old, threw acidic drain cleaner in the younger boys’ faces without provocation. The victims received severe burns and scars to […]
Aontú has welcomed the decision of RTÉ to include Peadar Tóibín in the leader’s debate on Thursday. The party said: “RTE have confirmed that Aontú will participate in the Leaders’ debate on Thursday. This is good news. In a free and open democracy no party should be excluded from presenting their policies to the people.”Last […]
Ben Gilroy is no stranger to publicity, with the anti-eviction campaigner a regular fixture in the courts and newspapers for his activities to date.
A number of men angrily confronted Tánaiste Simon Coveney as he left the meeting, expressing their frustration with the party’s support for abortion and its immigration policies.
A People Before Profit candidate for Election 2020 in Dublin North West previously boasted of tearing down posters advertising a meeting by a rape survivors network, and posted photos of his actions on social media. Conor Reddy, a People Before Profit candidate for Dublin North West in the election, went on “a rampage” in the […]
Left-wing extremists, including masked members of Antifa, threw a smoke bomb during an attempted attack on a free-speech rally outside the Dáil, Saturday afternoon. At least one Antifa activist appears to have been arrested after a Garda was assaulted with a metal tripod leg during a attempted charge by left-wing extremists at the demonstration against […]
The heartbroken father of three young Dublin children found dead in their home in Newcastle last Friday has said they were “wonderful children” in an emotional eulogy at their funeral. “We often misuse words,” Andrew McGinley told the congregation. “When Ireland would lose a match, I used to say I was heartbroken. I now know […]
Brexit day is a hugely important day for Fine Gael in the context of this general election campaign, because in many ways it’s a day of genuine triumph for the Government. Whether the fears of societal collapse and economic catastrophe on foot of Brexit were ever based in fact, or whether they were exaggerated, the […]
In some ways, you have to feel very sorry for Fianna Fáil’s MEP Billy Kelleher. When he voted, as a TD, to abolish the offence of blasphemy, he probably thought he was increasing his own freedom of speech. What he didn’t realise was that the offence of blasphemy in Ireland was only abolished for mocking […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín says that, as Minister for Transport in next Cabinet, he would immediately address the “daily nightmare” of commuting for families. “Family life is becoming impossible as parents are forced to leave their homes before dawn and are returning after their children are in bed. They’re saying to me that they feel […]
There are plenty of voters and citizens who might feel that they have few reasons to shed any tears over the downfall of Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone. The Senator, who imploded her own political career two days ago by making extraordinarily offensive and false remarks about her own party leader, has racked up a […]