Director of the RCM Karen Murray said she was “broadly welcoming” of the regulations, saying the numbers of abortions after 24 weeks is “miniscule.”
Families who lose a loved one during the Coronavirus crisis should be offered the opportunity of a church funeral under strict conditions, a senior church figure has said. Bishop of Derry, Dónal McKeown, also told the Irish News that churches should be allowed to open for places of private prayer during the coronavirus crisis, saying […]
Our sympathies to the people at TheJournal.ie, who are amongst the first in the national media industry to feel the bite of the coming recession/depression. They probably won’t be the last: Digital publisher Journal Media is to close its business site Fora.ie, scale back its sports website the42.ie and cut staff pay by between 5-20 […]
Growing up as a small boy in County Monaghan, the divide in our school was never between Manchester United and Liverpool, or Manchester United and Chelsea (who were a rank mid-table team in those days), or even Manchester United and Arsenal. No, it was between Manchester United, and Leeds United. Leeds were a big team […]
Look, that’s a tough headline. But it’s also objectively true. Do you remember this story we wrote here on Gript a few weeks ago? You probably don’t, so here’s a refresher: That was on March 10th. On that day, RTE’s Fergal Bowers reported the following: Department of Health has said that general visiting restrictions […]
The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, appeared to contradict the official advice given by the HSE on abortion pill provision during a debate on the Emergency Measures legislation in the Dáíl yesterday. Sinn Feín and left-wing TDs including Bríd Smith and Paul Murphy had sought amendments to the emergency legislation which would permit a doctor or nurse to […]
A very significant majority of the public submissions made to a consultation on abortion in Northern Ireland organised by the British government opposed any changes to the abortion law. 79% – almost four out of every five submissions – “registered their general opposition to any abortion provision in Northern Ireland beyond that which is currently […]
Late last night Gardaí in Limerick arrested a man after a high-speed chase through Limerick. Gardaí attempted to stop a car in the Ballynanty area of Limerick but the vehicle drove away at high speed through a number of housing estates before eventually being stopped with the assistance of the Armed Support Unit (ASU), a […]
This will drive the conspiracy theorists mad: “Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown […]
Attempts by Sinn Féin and left-wing TDs such as Bríd Smith to include amendments to the Emergency Measures legalisation which would allow abortion pills to be taken without a face-to-face consultation have been slammed as the “worst kind of opportunism” by the Life Institute. “While the rest of the country battles to save lives in the […]
The leader of Aontú Peadar Tóibín TD has expressed dismay that the British government in London have introduced abortion on demand in the north of Ireland. An Teachta Tóibín stated: “At a time when so many people are struggling to save lives in the north of Ireland we see the Tories in London introduce a […]
With reports emerging in recent days of gangs of little hoodlums roaming the streets coughing in people’s faces as part of the so-called “Corona Challenge”, the Gardai are getting new equipment, according to the Daily Star’s crime correspondent, Michael O’Toole: @@gardainfo purchases 16,000 spit hoods to be distributed to officers around the State during #Covid19Ireland […]