Chinese social media site WeChat has permanently banned almost all LGBT college accounts on its platform overnight, with no explanation to date given. WeChat, which is a social and messaging app as well as payment processor, has around a billion regular users, and is mainly used in Asia. This week, the vast majority of LGBT+ […]
EU could halt pandemic recovery payments.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has upheld eight complaints against RTÉ over a sketch which portrayed God as a rapist during its New Year’s Eve countdown programme. Complainants said that the public broadcaster would not mock the Muslim or Jewish faiths in the way it did the Catholic faith. The sketch, described previously as being “deeply […]
Michael McNamara TD has slammed the government for failing to significantly expand the country’s ICU capacity in over a year since the pandemic began. The Independent Clare TD made the remarks yesterday in the Dáil during leader’s questions. Michael McNamara on the government's insistence on putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, while failing […]
There is good news here, and bad news. The good news is now that we are a rogue state, the chances of the Americans deciding to launch a pre-emptive strike and liberate us from the tyranny of NPHET or whoever have increased dramatically. The bad news is that it is unlikely that many serious people […]
A top UK doctor and public health consultant told an RTÉ panel that “we have no evidence of the effectiveness of masks in a community setting,” and said that masks have been rolled out without proper evaluation. Dr. Allyson Pollock, who was formerly the Director of the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, […]
It is not hard to feel sympathy for the organisers of the Dublin Marathon. Speaking to Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk’s Hard Shoulder last evening (an item in which yours truly also featured), lead organiser Jim Aughney said that the cancellation was not because the organisers lacked faith in the vaccine programme, or personally believed in […]
Raheem Sterling won a controversial penalty in extra-time against Denmark, with many commentators insisting it was a dive. The Manchester City winger fell in the penalty area after Joakim Maehle stuck out his leg, prompting the referee to award a penalty without any help from VAR. Asked by ITV if the referee had been “generous”, […]
“This law makes me feel I am better off dead, I know I’m not, but that’s how it makes me feel,” Heidi Crowter told a large group of people with Down’s syndrome and their families outside British High Court yesterday. Ms Crowter (26) who has Down Syndrome, was speaking on the first day of the […]
Fianna Fáil senator Robbie Gallagher has accused the government of “cutting off our environmental noses to spite our face” when it comes to climate policy and the banning of peat harvesting. The remarks were made as the senator spoke in the Dáil to Green Party senator Pippa Hackett about Ireland’s native mushroom horticulture industry. “The […]
Mattie McGrath TD has said that vaccine passports will create a “medical apartheid” and turn families against each other in a blistering Dáil speech this week. Speaking during the Order of Business on Tuesday, the Independent Tipperary TD had strong words for the government on the lack of debate regarding the certs. Mattie McGrath demands […]
“Emotional time” for rioter, lawyer claimed.