Independent Senator Rónán Mullen says he will introduce legislation to end the payment of excessive salaries to broadcasters in public service organisations by linking the pay of broadcasters, producers and researchers to public service pay scales.
The good news: Even if Greta Thunberg is right, we have somewhere to escape to. The bad news: With current technology, and the 110-light-year distance, it will take us just over four million years to get there. We’ll start with the good news first, from Nasa: For the first time, researchers have detected water vapor […]
Independent TD Carol Nolan has called on the meat industry to show “unequivocal good faith” as preliminary discussions at Department of Agriculture’s campus yesterday (Wednesday) indicated that talks would resume either Friday or Monday. Deputy Nolan who has supported farmers on the picket lines in Laois and Offaly has said that beef farmers are open […]
‘Fireman Sam’, the children’s cartoon star, has been axed as the official mascot of the Lincolnshire Fire Brigade.
The latest figures show that just 13% of 2500 GPs have agreed to provide the abortion pill, and no family doctors are offering abortions in Carlow or Sligo. According to Herald.ie there has only been an increase of one doctor since July. Under legislation introduced by Simon Harris, GPs can provide abortions until the ninth week […]
The Central Bank of Ireland has succeeded in it’s planning application to install a work by Eva Rothschild outside its North Wall Quay office in Dublin.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has strongly condemned the inability of the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, to bring about a resolution to the ongoing beef crisis.
As George Hook said the other day, here he is again, trying to run the country by twitter: Harris today said that social media platforms should ban certain accounts and consider giving “badges” to accounts that are reputable and provide authentic information about vaccinations. “These are matters that I want to discuss with them, but […]
At least 31 people have died and over 100 were injured on Tuesday in Iraq’s southern city of Kerbala at an event marking the death of the grandson of Muhammad. Pilgrims are said to have fallen on top of each other in a rush to enter the city’s shrine.
I say good news, but sadly, it’s not clear whether the little Penguin itself recognises what a momentous occasion this is: The Gentoo chick, which is yet to be named, will not be characterised as male or female by keepers at the South Bank aquarium. Raising a genderless chick will be a first for Sea […]
The videos also include explanations by other teachers of how male and female may be the sex one is born with, but gender is determined by what the person feels inside.
With three Muslim primary schools already present, Dublin will become the first county to have a secondary school with an Islamic ethos if the application by the Islamic Foundation is accepted by the Department of Education.