Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday that “this outbreak could go in any direction.”
A furore has erupted about the emergence of a Sinn Féin briefing note which showed the party included figures who had been members of the Army Council in the party’s negotiating team in the talks on Irish government formation. Unelected party members listed in the note as negotiators include Martin Lynch and former Sinn Féin […]
His legacy came under suspicion just before his death when allegations were leveled by no less than six women that they had been coerced and manipulated into sexual activity with the founder between 1970 and 2005.
Once again, the Belgian parliament is debating abortion – not whether to decriminalise it, for that happened in 1990, but whether to criminalise protests against it. A new bill would relax existing restrictions by allowing abortions up to 18 weeks (from 12 weeks), removing all penalties for women who do not comply with the law, […]
Footage of a sulky race being held in the early hours of last weekend on the N7 near Citywest in Dublin has brought the issue back into the public spotlight. For those unfamiliar with the practice, here is a link to the N7 video which will give you some idea of what is involved. It […]
“They don’t see themselves as criminals. They’re just doing what they’ve done all their lives and their parents and grandparents did before them.”
A Dutch woman suffering with mental health problems has shared her story of how a psychiatrist suggested she ask for euthanasia because he could see she was “tired out” and had “gone through too much”.
A new poll has shown that only 5% of voters in Northern Ireland support introducing abortion to 24 weeks – which is what is being proposed by the Conservative government and Sinn Féin after last year’s vote to impose abortion on the region. The poll, organised by the University of Liverpool and Britain’s Economic and […]
Local people in Tullamore are being “leapfrogged” for housing and services, and are ‘angry and frustrated’ at the lack of consultation with the community before the announcement that a new direct provision centre would be opened, according to local politicians. Carol Nolan, the Independent TD for Offaly has called on the Department of Justice to suspend proposals to […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.
China has expelled three Beijing-based Wall Street Journal staff from the country after the paper printed an op-ed headline which authorities there deemed “racist”.
A Labour party deputy leadership candidate has said babies are not born with a sex and that talking about biological reality is “dog whistle transphobia.”