The important thing to note here is that there has been no “cure” discovered for Downs Syndrome. It’s not that medicine has gotten better at preventing Downs Syndrome, it’s that doctors have gotten better at identifying those children before they are born, and eliminating them: “The number of babies born with Down’s syndrome has fallen […]
Julia Webb won the Route 66 women’s half marathon in Tulsa, Oklahoma last week , setting a new world record while she pushed her 10-month-old daughter, Gabriella, in a stroller.
Up to 800,000 people of all ages and walks of life took part in the march, seen as a show of support for the ongoing protests as the Chinese-supported government crack down hard on pro-democracy demonstrators.
As the homeless crisis continues to spiral, a play centre in Meath is opening up on Christmas day to offer dinner to families who are in emergency accommodation.
Every Christmas season sees a re-igniting of the Christmas Wars, where some commentators and activists attempt to remove cribs from public spaces or replace Happy Christmas with Happy Holidays. One McDonald’s restaurant in Tennessee isn’t afraid to say where it stands on the issue. A photo of the windows of the restaurant covered with a large nativity scene […]
Indian police say they were visiting the scene of a rape and murder with four suspects who unexpectedly tried to grab guns from the officers, causing all four to be shot dead underneath the bridge where the original crime had been committed in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Credit to Louise Rosengrave, writing in The Journal, for this horrifying story: “A 67-YEAR-OLD cancer patient discharged herself from hospital due to overcrowding and died four days later, an inquest heard. Elizabeth Leavy from Montpellier Road, Dublin 7 was left waiting on a hospital trolley for six hours. “She was left in the hallway beside the bins. […]
There comes a time when you start to wonder if anyone in the Irish Government is capable of estimating the real cost of anything. If these guys told you they could re-roof your house for three thousand euros, you’d probably be wiser just to re-mortgage the house and prepare for a final bill of around […]
Fine Gael TD Dara Murphy has resigned his seat in the Dáil in order to take up a new, much better paid job, with the incoming European Commission. It’s hard to blame anyone for exchanging a seat in the Dáil for a seat in Brussels – the latter is a much better job. You won’t […]
About once or twice a year, the Irish Government and a bunch of friendly NGOs head over to Geneva in Switzerland to report to the United Nations on Ireland’s “progress” in a range of human rights areas. This week, it was the turn of the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination (CERD). The last time Irish […]
Sr Consilio Fitzgerald, the founder of Cuan Mhuire, will be presented with the 5th Oireachtas Human Dignity Award at a ceremony in Leinster House on Thursday, 5th December. Sr Consilio is being honoured for her decades-long work with men and women suffering from addiction. Her foundation, Cuan Mhuire, provides addiction treatment services and residential rehabilitation […]
An estimated 3,500 buffalo will be killed as part of the Gadhimai Hindu festival, an animal-sacrificing event that commenced today and occurs every five years in the village of Bariyarpur, Nepal.