If you were to distil Ireland’s emergent culture wars down to their purest, most unadulterated essence, you probably couldn’t come up with a better few lines than this response to a questionnaire on cycling by the Chairman of Renua Ireland: TheJournal's first Election Q&A is up. We asked each party their policies on cycling in […]
A new report published today has revealed that 92% of renters in Dublin Docklands are coming from abroad to work in the city – and they are pricing locals out of the rental market. The Docklands Residential Report 2020 is published by Owen Reilly Estate Agency which sells and rents homes in the area. They found that […]
If you were the kind of person who bets, and if you had the chance to lay odds on which political party would produce the single dumbest policy of the General Election, you’d never go far wrong betting on Solidarity/People Before Profit. And if you’d made that bet, then today you would have won. A […]
Sinn Féín TDs have “zero” influence over the party’s policy decisions, according to a former representative, and TDs are told what to do by unelected party staff. In fact, Peadar Tóibín says, Sinn Féin’s TDs are not even allowed to chose their own parliamentary assistants and must represent the party rather than the people who elected them. The Aontú […]
Well, this will come as a relief to the hundreds of thousands of voters up and down the country who are presently losing sleep at the prospect of the election depriving the nation of its finest politician: “Children’s minister Katherine Zappone has said she would be willing to work in a government led by Micheál […]
Senator Catherine Noone, a candidate for Fine Gael has issued an apology for calling Taoiseach Leo Varadkar “autistic” during an election canvass. The Times last night reported that Ms Noone, a candidate Dublin Bay North, said of Mr Varadkar “He’s autistic like, he’s on the spectrum, there’s no doubt about it. He’s uncomfortable socially and he […]
Next week, just days before the general election, secondary school teachers across the country will go on strike to protest against continued pay inequality for their profession. In Ireland in 2020, we still have the objectively absurd situation where two people, teaching the same subject, in the same school, for the same number of hours, […]
Peadar Tóibín has said that Aontú is considering legal action against RTÉ because they have excluded the party from Monday’s leaders’ debate. Seven political parties will take part in the televised debate – but Aontú, with six elected representatives have been excluded. Now Aontú has told RTÉ that if the party is not included in […]
A group of protesters are gathering daily outside a social housing development site in Mulhuddart village for what they describe a “House The Irish First” protest. They believe the houses on site, though still under construction, have already been earmarked for foreign-nationals, despite the fact that many locals still remained on the housing list. Protesters […]
A man is being treated in an isolation ward in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital for symptoms consistent with coronavirus, which has so far caused 18 deaths in China. The BBC reports that he travelled to Northern Ireland from the city of Wuhan where the infection outbreak began. It is understood that the patient arrived from Wuhan […]
The election campaign appears to be heating up in more ways than one, with, according to Solidarity People Before Profit Socialist Party RISE TD (yes, those are all his titles) Paul Murphy, at least two election posters being set alight overnight in Dublin: Posters of Solidarity-People Before Profit candidates Michael O'Brien and Gillien Brien were […]
In a sudden reversal of policy for Fianna Fail Micheál Martin yesterday pledged to introduce an emergency rent freeze if elected. This comes one day after Fianna Fail published legal advice they had been given which said that such a freeze would be unconstitutional. Between Tuesday, when Fianna Fail launched their housing policy, and Wednesday, […]