‘It will happen again.” Renua candidate slams politicians and abortion campaigners as abortion misdiagnosis case shocks country.
An European election candidate says that she wants to represent families who have real concerns because they feel their children suffered adverse effects from vaccines. Theresa Heaney says Simon Harris cannot compel families to give children vaccines while those concerns are not answered.
With a serious shortage of people working in trades Renua candidate for Clane Séamus Ó Riain in Clane is calling for the German system of training apprenticeships to be rolled out in this country.
Can’t get a mortgage? Liam Coughlan of Aontú says the council should be helping to provide homes for people to buy, because vulture funds won’t do that.
NEW controversy for Glitter Hole: Parents speak up as new tweet from the sexually explicit drag queens emerges talking of “agenda” when reading to children. The group was booked to read to 3-7 year olds in Deansgrange Library, a move parents considered “wildly inappropriate”.
PAUL Lawless says Mayo is not getting vital EU funding – because the government FAILED to apply for Ten-T funding which is badly needed and which Mayo is entitled to for development and transport. The @AontúIE candidate says Mayo is being let down by the political parties and change must come in the local elections.
State should use state-of-the-art wireless technology to bring urgently-needed broadband to rural areas says Renua candidate for Enniscorthy Ger O’Donoghue.
He says service will be locally-owned and is a faster, cheaper method of bringing broadband where it is urgently needed in rural Ireland.
Spiraling insurance costs are causing play centres to close – and big insurance companies need to be taken to account, says local election candidate Helena Byrne.
SECULAR BLASPHEMY? Cllr Keith Redmond says the proposal from Irish government that Facebook could request PPS numbers to register users is worrying.
Parents are fighting back against attempts to force a Catholic ethos out of schools – and are asking Archbishop Diarmuid Martin to stand up for Catholic families.
Aontú, the new political party set up by Peadar Tóibín, says it is fielding 70 candidates in the local election in May.