The new law will pave way for abortion on demand in Northern Ireland on October 22nd if the Assembly at Stormont does not reconvene.
Full credit to Conor Lally in the Irish Times for an extraordinary scoop this morning: Dublin City Council was paying “security” or protection money to the leader of a Dublin drugs gang, and also to a man who was connected to three murders, the High Court has heard. In fairness to the Times, you should read the whole […]
When the Government increased the cost of a packet of cigarettes in the budget by 50c yesterday, smoker’s lobby group Forest denounced it as a “massive own goal” by the Government. Spokesman John Mallon said: “Ireland is already the most expensive country in Europe to buy tobacco. Thanks to Paschal Donohoe, more smokers will buy […]
Leader of Aontú, Peadar Tóibín, has said that yesterday’s Budget introduced by Minister Paschal Donohue has done little to address the chasm developing between rural Ireland and Dublin. “We are now at crisis point as a nation,” the Meath West TD said. “Ireland is divided between an over-heating and fractured capital and sprawling commuter belt […]
The family of Emma Mhic Mhathúna have remembered her as “beautiful and brave” on the first anniversary of her death, and have said that they hoped “something positive will come from her journey and her passing”. Mrs Mhic Mhathúna, a mother of five, was one of 221 women given incorrect smear test results by the […]
I was trying to think this morning what this was like, and it occurred to me that the thing it’s most like is when the players on a Premier Division Football team let it know that they have lost confidence in the Manager. “He’s lost the dressing room”, the pundits would declare, and a sacking […]
The box-office hit Unplanned opened in Ireland this week, despite attempts by left-wing activists to get theatres to cancel scheduled showings of the pro-life film. Far-left agitators in Galway called for a protest and threatened “that film won’t be shown in that cinema tonight”. Galway abortion advocates urged supporters to call and email Omniplex to stop […]
A row between local residents, Government, and a prominent local business family over the provision of direct provision has broken out in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, where over 1,100 people have signed a petition saying that they no longer feel safe walking through their own town because of large groups of migrants congregating in the centre […]
A fascinating proposal from Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman – I look forward to seeing the uptake in his own constituency of Dublin Bay South. Jim O’Callaghan made the proposal that families should take in asylum seekers in conversation with Fine Gael Minister David Stanton in the Dáil this morning. He suggested that families who housed […]
Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that there was a breach of the abortion law in the case where a healthy unborn baby was aborted in the mistaken belief that it suffered a terminal illness, Peadar Tóibín has told the Dáil. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a healthy baby boy was aborted after […]
Alternative headline: “Green Party wants innocent wolves to be shot by nervous farmers”: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has called for the reintroduction of wolves in Ireland to help rewild parts of the country. Last wolf was killed near Mount Leinster in 1786. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/aYMRtvVrC2 — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) October 1, 2019 Look, I’m an […]
I can hear you lot, down the back, already. “Well of course, McGuirk, you don’t like the citizen’s assembly because it finally overturned centuries of torture and oppression and gave Irish women the right to fully control their own bodies. Stop being so sour. The Citizen’s Assembly is great”. Of course, the idea that the […]