Strong words this morning from the incoming President of the EU Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen: Today on #EqualPayDay, women earn on average 16% less than men. Written in the European Treaties 60 years ago, equal pay for equal work is still not a reality. That's why I will table measures to introduce binding paytransparency […]
One of the leading campaign groups in the 2018 abortion referendum says that Facebook’s Irish partner, The Journal.ie, cannot be considered a credible fact-checker because it amended its own fact-check findings during the referendum with results that benefited the Yes campaign. The Life Institute says that during the referendum The Journal rewrote and altered its previously published […]
The HSE has confirmed that getting doctors to perform abortions is a significant issue causing delay in rolling out abortion provision in Ireland. CEO of the health service, Paul Reid, said that as of August this year, nine maternity units were not performing abortions while ten hospitals were. “There are issues with regard to the geographic […]
The accident is thought to have taken place this morning at the Children’s Hospital construction site beside St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.
A leading commentator has warned of a growing climate of hostility towards religion in Ireland, after a church had graffiti daubed on its doors, the latest in a spate of attacks around the country. The doors of University Church on Stephen’s Green in Dublin were daubed with graffiti Tuesday evening. It comes after an arson […]
It’s remarkable, isn’t it, as a very smart tweeter observed in response to this news, that just a few years ago the great and the good were applauding the power of twitter to facilitate political change on a scale previously unheard of. The Arab spring? Powered almost completely by social media. Barack Obama? The first […]
A “porn workshop” featuring ‘porn alphabet games’ is being advocated by a leading campaigner for a new Sexual Education programme for school children. A selection of potential terms to be explained in workshops was posted by Kate Dawson of NUIG, a porn studies advocate and sexual educator, on her Twitter feed. In a tweet […]
At this point most of us are aware of the controversy surrounding the roll-out of the Public Services Card as well as the data protection and legality concerns that have been raised by Commissioner Helen Dixon. The figure of €67 million as the total cost to date of the entire farce has also been in […]
A well-known Belfast priest has won praise after he said that politicians who supported laws which foisted abortion onto Northern Ireland should be refused Holy Communion. Political campaigners sought to stir controversy about the priest’s comments, but he has been commended for showing leadership and courage by Catholics in Northern Ireland who feel betrayed by politicians who co-operated […]
A gold medalist sprinter has described the inclusion of athletes born male in women’s sports, as unfair, adding that we’re “living in ridiculous times.” Top British sprinter James Ellington made his comment s on Twitter , after transgender cyclist, Rachel McKinnon, who was born male, won gold for a second time at the Masters Track […]
A wheelchair-bound four-year-old girl is said to be traumatised after being screamed at by a man on her way to school and told she “shouldn’t have been born.”
Apparently, when the rats drive their little cars, they experience a reduction in stress. We’ll see how long that lasts when one of them is stuck behind some fella in a white van doing 60kph on the motorway. Anyway: The study tasked adult rats with learning how to pilot a pint-sized vehicle made out of […]