I cannot believe it took them sixteen years. Shameful. Jokes aside, they really should just rename this thing the Nobel Prize for being a secular messiah and have done with it. Barack Obama won it, you might recall, after he announced that his election “was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to […]
The disability assessor, a professed Christian, said his employer, the Department of Work and Pensions, had breached his rights
A fascinating proposal from Fianna Fáil’s justice spokesman – I look forward to seeing the uptake in his own constituency of Dublin Bay South. Jim O’Callaghan made the proposal that families should take in asylum seekers in conversation with Fine Gael Minister David Stanton in the Dáil this morning. He suggested that families who housed […]
In an unexpected development, the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature has retracted a study published last year which claimed that oceans were warming faster than expected due to climate change, and that the rate at which warming was happening was accelerating. Campaigners had seized on the October 2018 study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution […]
Up to 40 cinemas across Ireland will now show the pro-life movie, Unplanned, in response to public demand. Initially, just four cinemas in the Republic in the IMC and Eclipse chains were scheduled to screen the film, but now the Omniplex chain and other independent cinemas have also booked the movie – which was a box-office hit […]
Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that there was a breach of the abortion law in the case where a healthy unborn baby was aborted in the mistaken belief that it suffered a terminal illness, Peadar Tóibín has told the Dáil. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a healthy baby boy was aborted after […]
Kim Kardashian has said her husband, super star hip-hop artist and music entrepreneur Kanye West, has been ‘saved by Christ’. Kardashian told the U.S. TV show “The View” that her husband was “born again” and that making his new album was instrumental in West becoming a Christian. “Kanye started this to really heal himself and […]
Alternative headline: “Green Party wants innocent wolves to be shot by nervous farmers”: Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan has called for the reintroduction of wolves in Ireland to help rewild parts of the country. Last wolf was killed near Mount Leinster in 1786. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/aYMRtvVrC2 — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) October 1, 2019 Look, I’m an […]
I can hear you lot, down the back, already. “Well of course, McGuirk, you don’t like the citizen’s assembly because it finally overturned centuries of torture and oppression and gave Irish women the right to fully control their own bodies. Stop being so sour. The Citizen’s Assembly is great”. Of course, the idea that the […]
The local people in Oughterard have welcomed the withdrawal of a tender to provide a direct provision centre at a hotel in the town. A representative for the Connemara Gateway Hotel has confirmed they are pulling out of the deal which had caused controversy for the past three weeks in the town. Locals said they […]
Sprinter Allyson Felix is now the most decorated athlete in world championship history with an astonishing 12 gold medals, beating the previous record of Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt. The U.S. sprinter, 33, is widely acclaimed as the most decorated female track and field athlete at the Olympics with nine medals among four Games. For Felix, […]
The attack on the 5-year-old by four nine-year-old boys took place at a school in Newcastle, South Africa.