With suicide rates in Cavan and Monaghan at twice the national average according to the National Office for Suicide Prevention, a local Cllr has expressed fears that people are ‘dying unnecessarily’ due to gaps in the services, and has questioned if the situation ‘could be termed a mental health emergency’. Calling for the establishment of a Mental Health […]
A Nigerian priest has issued a desperate plea for help in the wake of a litany of brutal executions and kidnappings in northern Nigeria by Islamic militants.
With all the talk of centenaries recently, it might be hard to imagine that this decade will feature a centenary much more important than the war against the Black and Tans, or the civil war, though it will be much less commemorated. In 1926, the flu – yes, the flu – killed 100,000 people in […]
Former journalist John Waters has announced he will run as an Independent candidate in the upcoming general election, affiliating himself with the Anti-Corruption Ireland movement.
In a presidential first, Donald Trump will address the U.S. March for Life on Friday – the largest pro-life event in that country expected to be attended by hundreds of thousands of pro-life people.
Spain’s leftist government is on a collision course with the southern state of Murcia after it announced plans to take legal action if the region’s politicians fail to withdraw a parental veto on sex education courses within a month.
Criminologist Richard Hoskins (56) has said he would have been saved from gender transitioning if he had been given adequate therapy to deal with his traumatic past.
In a radical move that will leave businesses, farmers, and the public scrambling Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin has pledged that he will bring down greenhouse gas emissions by ‘at least 8% a year’ if elected. The Irish Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] had previously said that they projected that by 2030 Ireland would have reduced […]
Aontú has slammed RTÉ’s decision to exclude the party from the televised Leaders’ debates. Describing the decision as a “modern day lockout”, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, said the move as a serious mistake by the broadcaster and questioned the reasoning behind the decision. An Teachta Tóibín stated: “There are 8 political parties organised on a […]
On the one hand, you have to feel a little sorry for Greta Thunberg. She doesn’t seem to realise that she’s not at Davos because the kinds of people who go to Davos are very eager to tackle climate change. She’s there because the kinds of people who go to Davos are very eager to […]
The most extraordinary thing about this story is not that the Abortion Rights Campaign has produced a booklet telling journalists how they must talk about stories about abortion; it’s that they apparently feel that there’s a problem for their side in the media that requires correction. Is there? The decision to produce a whole booklet […]
US president Donald Trump made what appeared to be a veiled attack on Greta Thunberg at the Davos Forum’s gathering of billionaires in Switzerland earlier today.