The Government has announced ‘stringent new building regulations’ which will drive up the cost of new builds and renovations of existing builds. Under the new regulations all new builds will have to have an A2 energy rating and be ‘near-zero energy buildings’, and existing builds, undergoing major renovations, will have to be brought up to […]
Some are predicting that it may well be a ‘yellow vest’ moment, in reference to the massive public protests in France which forced Macron’s government to reverse carbon tax hikes.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has told Minister for Health Simon Harris that “safe access” abortion legislation is not needed
Question marks remain however over the safety of the HPV vaccine Gardasil, with the 49 victims of the vaccine awarded $5,877,710 dollars by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Irish Ministers have taken 30 trips on the Government Jet this year, new figures reveal. The Jet has been in use for 125 hours, at an approximate cost to the taxpayer of just under half a million euros. The Jet has been used exclusively within Europe, with Ministers apparently preferring commercial travel for longer journeys […]
Hundreds of medical professionals have signed letters opposing a proposed abortion law in Northern Ireland, saying abortion is the unjust taking of a human life. They also insisted that the right to conscientious objection be upheld, and that healthcare professionals should not be forced to participate in or assist with abortions. More than 700 doctors and other healthcare workers […]
Former head of the GPs Association, Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, predicted that it was going to be a “bad winter”, because Emergency Departments and ICUs in Irish hospitals were already at capacity.
Pelosi contends that Donald Trump postponed $400 million in military aid to the Ukraine in order to coax their president into investigating alleged financial impropriety by Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, a move that would benefited Trump electorally and damaged a rival candidate.
US President, Donald Trump, has used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York to blast social media companies for what he said was an attempt to “silence the voices of the people.”
Yesterday on these pages I asked, I think reasonably enough, whatever happened to “peak oil”?. Today, it’s time to revisit a much more important question. Whatever happened to the 2004 top secret pentagon report on Climate Change? You know the one; it made a few, small, conservative predictions about the impacts of Climate Change: A […]
The IFA has said farmers whose land has been designated as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) are not being properly compensated by Minister Josepha Madigan at the Department of Heritage.
TDs in the Rural Independents Group will see their motion supporting the Agri-Foods sector pass through the Dáil this evening, after the government decided at this mornings Cabinet meeting not to oppose it. The group said that “major disruption to Agri-Food sector could have been minimised or avoided,” and challenged the government on its role in […]