Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has submitted the Protection of Children (Online Pornographic Material) Bill 2019 to the Dáil. The Bill aims to make the online provision of pornography to children illegal, and has been drafted in response to growing concerns from parents about easy access to pornography online. Deputy Tóibín said “The proliferation of […]
This business of demanding that social media censor every opinion that we don’t like just isn’t going to end well. Here’s another press hit this morning for the Minister for blaming everybody but himself for Health: “HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris is to meet with a number of social media companies today to discuss the spread […]
Farmers from across Ireland are planning a national tractor protest in Dublin later this week to campaign against what they say is the Government’s continued discrimination of our farming community and rural Ireland as a whole. The protest is not being organised by the IFA or any other farming organisation, and appears to be a […]
It’s worth recalling that Arlene Foster was eight years old in 1979 when her father, John Kelly (Foster is her married name) was shot in the head in the driveway of the family home. Speaking about the experience in 2015, she recalled: “I was eight when my father, John Kelly, was shot – I hadn’t […]
The Journal.ie reports this morning that there appears to be no end in sight to Ireland’s newly declared direct provision wars: THE GOVERNMENT IS looking at housing thousands of asylum seekers in new Direct Provision centres in the coming years. The numbers of people arriving to seek international protection in the state has risen 50% […]
Senator Rónán Mullen has urged the Irish Wheelchair Association to commit to a ‘stay of execution’ around its proposed closure of the Cuisle respite facility in Donamon, Co Roscommon, calling for additional time to facilitate community and political efforts to keep the centre open. Mullen participated in an emergency 3.5 hours meeting of the Joint […]
More evidence, one might argue, that progress and compassion aren’t necessarily linear. More people died of drug-related causes last year than at any time in the history of the State, new figures cited in the Dáil show. 736 people in Ireland died last year of drug-related causes, compared to just 431 in 2004, an increase […]
The sixteen were discovered in the container of a lorry aboard a Stenaline ferry that had departed Brittany, France and is due to arrive in Rosslare at 3pm today.
New figures released by the National Cancer Registry of Ireland show that Breast Cancer patients treated in a private hospital have a significantly greater chance of survival than women who are treated in public hospitals. The annual NCRI report is the most authoritative source for information on cancer survival rates in Ireland. It shows that […]
The decision by the Dublin Town business group to coin a new moniker – the ‘Grafton Quarter’ – for Grafton Street and its environs attracted some controversy recently. However, most reporting missed what is, to me, the bigger story: the decision to ditch the much-loved Nollaig Shona Duit signage as part of the Grafton Street Christmas lights. […]
The final Compass event of 2019 is taking place on November 26th, and will involve a discussion around the title: ‘Is feminism vital in Ireland today?’ The panel-based discussion will be taking place in Buswell’s in Dublin city centre at 7pm, and features The Irish Independent journalist Barbara McCarthy, the independent Senator and academic Marie […]
A newspaper editor has accused former President Mary McAleese of “trying to give him a belt of her crozier”, after the former President wrote to the owner of his newspaper to complain that an article about her was “fake news”. Irish Catholic editor Michael Kelly revealed in his newspaper this week that McAleese had taken […]