Independent TD for Offaly, Carol Nolan, has urged the Health Minister, Simon Harris, to ensure the National Cancer Strategy will not be put in jeopardy by the massive over-spend racked up in building the National Children’s Hospital (NCH). Deputy Nolan made her comments after obtaining an answer to a parliamentary question from Minister Harris which […]
Are you excited? RTE has released a new schedule today for autumn and winter, which, if we’re honest, looks an awful lot like the usual RTE schedule: Irish stories are front and centre of RTÉ’s New Season with entertainment, drama, climate change, live sport and more at the heart of programming. The stars and makers […]
JAMA Pediatrics, a major peer-reviewed journal, has published a controversial study linking fluoridated water taken during pregnancy to lower IQ results in children.
According to the generally well-informed Pat Leahy over at the Irish Times, Dublin is refusing even to engage with the British authorities on the arrangements that might be necessary in the event of a no-deal Brexit: The new British government wants to talk to Dublin about managing a no-deal exit, but Irish Ministers and officials […]
A Volkswagen car ad has been banned for portraying a mother looking after her child whilst men were pictured in space, something the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found perpetuated “gender stereotypes” that were likely to cause “harm”.
“‘Entirely inappropriate’ – anger as Fine Gael Youth leader attends US right-wing conference” This was the headline that greeted the group of 11 students and young professionals shortly after landing in Dublin Airport recently on a crisp Monday morning at 6 am. They had set off from Washington Dulles over 6 hours before and had […]
I’ll be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to think up a good “swing” joke to greet this news with, and I came up short. “Swings and Roundabouts” was about the best I managed, and that’s just lame. I suppose you can’t have someone who’s now associated, rightly or wrongly, in the public […]
A construction company, Western Building Systems, that built 42 schools with structural defects for the state has been given a contract by the HSE worth €14m to build an extension to University Hospital Limerick. Western Building Systems is being pursued in fifteen separate legal actions by the Department of Education, after structural defects were discovered […]
Planned Parenthood’s refusal to separate its abortion business from healthcare means it will now be excluded from the Title X program, costing the abortion provider $60 million in taxpayer funding.
A real good news/bad news report from property website Daft this quarter. The good news: At 6.7%, the rate of increase in Irish rents is finally slowing and slowing quite significantly. The bad news: The people at Daft think it’s because people just can’t afford to pay any more than they are paying. According to […]
The Bundesbank says Germany is headed to recession. Not good news, especially with the possibility of a hard Brexit on the horizon: The German economy could slip into a technical recession in the third quarter after failing to recover over the summer, the Bundesbank said on Monday. In a monthly report, the Bundesbank said falling […]
Credit to The Sun on this one: “Reports in Germany have now revealed two people will have to jet out to America to return the ship to Europe. Some news sources claimed a further two will also fly out to meet up with Greta, however those reports have yet to be confirmed. The non-stop journey eco […]