A 13-year old boy with a diagnosis of autism and a history of violent and aggressive behaviour has been stuck in Temple Street Children’s Hospital for almost seven months, because the HSE is refusing to fund a residential care place available for him. Daniel Hurley’s distraught parents say that keeping their child in Temple Street […]
Pro-life activists have protested the SDLP on the Ormeau Road, Belfast today, because of what they described as the party’s “betrayal” of voters on the abortion issue.
An independent survey, which aimed to determine the extent to which bullying and sexual harassment was prevalent within the Oireachtas, has shown that bullying and harassment, both verbal and sexual, of staff within the Oireachtas is common, with 1 in 5 of those surveyed saying they had been bullied or harassed, verbally or sexually, within […]
The Government has appointed Martina Fitzgerald, the former RTE political editor, to the National Screening Advisory Committee, according to the Irish Times. Ms. Fitzgerald left RTE after a bitter and public dispute over her role with the broadcaster, which wished to replace her, and advertised the role internally. She becomes the latest in a long […]
The SDLP have walked out of the Stormont Assembly and stymied an attempt by the DUP to introduce a bill preventing the British government from imposing abortion on the north of Ireland. Pro-life groups said that while Sinn Féín’s support for the extreme abortion law was already established , the actions of the SDLP were […]
It is quite the spectacle, for those interested, to observe the current row between Ireland’s two largest political parties. Fianna Fáil, as anyone who has not spent the last week on a hillside in the remotest part of Mongolia will know, have been uncovered taking part in what appears to be a widespread practice of […]
Creaven was arrested on Wednesday morning in Dublin under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act and spent some 18 hours in custody before being released.
An Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said that Maria Bailey TD should “be allowed to move on” after “paying a “very heavy price for making a mistake”, following renewed criticism of the Fine Gael TD as it emerged that she was forced to hand back expenses to the Dáil. The Dun Laoghaire TD grabbed the headlines […]
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been slammed for hypocrisy after she said Brexit was being foisted on the north while her party works to enable Westminster in forcing abortion on the region. Yesterday, Deputy McDonald said: “There is no such thing as a good Brexit. Brexit is being foisted on the north of […]
300 people packed a meeting in Borrisokane in north Tipperary last night to hear that accommodation for 84 migrants and asylum seekers was being made available in the town under a “done deal”. Residents and local representatives at the meeting were critical of the “secrecy” surrounding the move by the Department of Justice, who had […]
ISIS member Lisa Smith is being held with her child in a north Syrian safe house controlled by the Syrian National Army.
A public meeting in Ballinamore, Co Leitrim has heard that up to 130 refugees and migrants will be given accommodation in new apartments in the town, with 100 arriving within two weeks. Just 914 people live in the small Leitrim town, but the Department of Justice will make 20 three and four-bed apartments made available to refugees […]