The Mexican Supreme Court has overturned a lower court’s ruling in a case which sought to ensure that abortion was legalised throughout the country.
Ashton dog pound, which has received millions of euro in public funds, was searched by police on Monday of this week, with return visits on Tuesday and Wednesday. Gript understands that the move came after Gardai were informed of the recent death of a dog in the pound and potential issues with the control of a […]
More than eighty complaints, would you believe, led to the ad being banned. If you haven’t had the chance to see it, here’s the scandalous tampon ad that the advertising authority of Ireland don’t want you to see: Is it a bit crude? Sure. But it’s hardly an advert for some kind of sexual debauchery, […]
Deeply unfair, you’d have to say: A series of gaffes prior to and during the general election cost Fine Gael at the polls, a meeting of the parliamentary party has been told. Ministers and Ministers of State held discussions reviewing the party’s general election performance on Tuesday ahead of a further meeting of the entire […]
Twenty TDs and Senators have signed a letter to an Taoiseach, an Tánaiste and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney expressing serious concern about the mistreatment of the Uighur Muslim people by the Chinese authorities. The letter, addessed to Mícheál Martin and Leo Varadkar as well as the Foreign Affairs Minister says that the […]
An Aontú Bill that will ensue the replacement of unelected Ministers and Junior Ministers with elected TDs in the case of a delay in the formation of a government has past first stage of the Dáil. Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD said the bill sought to prevent a repetition of the situation after Election 2020 […]
Polling over the last few months in the US election has been fairly consistent: Donald Trump’s goose is well and truly cooked. It’s not just one pollster either – it’s been all of them. An approval rating stuck in the very low forties, and states like Texas and Georgia, which have always been rock solid […]
The Irish Freedom Party [IFP], a Eurosceptic political party, had one of their information stalls destroyed by a small group of far-left thugs in Belfast over the weekend. The group appears to have been comprised of Communist, Socialist and Antifa agitators, but it also included members of Saoradh, an organisation believed to be the political […]
The development group which was reported to be in talks with the Irish government regarding the possibility of building a city for Hong Kongers in Ireland, has now confirmed that the discussion is ongoing. While the Department of Foreign Affairs seemed to downplay the possibility, Mark Lutter, the Chief Strategy Officer for the Victoria Harbor […]
What’s the world coming to when you can’t trust a politician to cut their own salary without actually increasing it by accident? Clarified this evening: voluntary pay cuts taken by the previous Govts lapsed when new Govt was formed, so today's 10% is effectively a renewal of those cuts. e.g. Taoiseach's salary €207,590; Varadkar had […]
Poland’s justice minister says the country will take steps today to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, saying it is being used to force schools to teach children that gender is a social construct, which violates the rights of parents. Minister Zbigniew Ziobro told a news conference that the Convention “contains elements of an ideological nature, […]
As most people have, by now, heard, one of the first legislative priorities for the new Government was to pass legislation enabling all three “super junior” ministers to be paid a bit more: The Dáil has passed laws to increase remuneration for a third ‘super junior’ minister who will now be entitled to an allowance […]