“Councils around the country are advertising jobs that do not begin until July – several days after the supposed freedom day.”
Here are the latest figures for euthanasia in the Netherlands, drawn from the 2020 annual report. With 6938 deaths by euthanasia, this accounted for 4.12% of all deaths. (If the estimated 15,000 extra deaths from Covid-19 were put aside, the rate would be 4.52%) There were two cases of euthanasia for Covid-19 in 2020. With […]
British secret agents have begun “green spying” operations on the world’s polluting countries to make sure they uphold their climate-change targets, according to the head of MI6. MI6, or “Military Intelligence, Section 6”, is the UK’s main spying agency and is famously depicted in the James Bond movies, will be spying on industrial countries around […]
The directors of the company, Barry and David Walsh, thanked all customers they had served for their loyalty.
Businessman Declan Ganley has called on the Irish Bishops to “open their churches” in defiance of lockdown after his constitutional case against the state in relation to the right to worship was delayed yet again. His case – which states that the ban on public worship is illegal under the Irish constitution – was originally […]
Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers told Virgin Media that requiring vaccinations would mean “excluding children” from stadiums and therefore won’t be pursued as a policy.
Twitter has confirmed that they have complied with orders from the Indian government to remove dozens of posts critical of the State’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic on the basis that they are “fake news” and “misleading.” As admitted by a Twitter spokesperson, the move comes at a time when India faces a massive surge […]
A former Sinn Féin counciller has been charged with the murder of gangland criminal David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin five years ago. Jonathan Dowdall, 43, was charged before the Special Criminal Court this morning, the fourth person to be charged in the last seven days in connection with what was described as a […]
“So we do have an issue here of carbon emissions associated with our pets,” he claimed.
If you think you’re having a hard time of it in Lockdown, then spare a thought for the poor souls in Hollywood. Bear in mind, before you read this, that just seven years ago, the Oscars pulled in forty million live viewers, making it one of the biggest television events in the world. This Sunday, […]
Give Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe some credit: The last time he was in the news, it was because he was the politician with sufficient foresight to realise that Fine Gael’s proposal to honour the Dublin Metropolitan Police would be unpopular, and his intervention resulted in that pleasant pre-pandemic month we all spent debating the […]
“So, I have to conclude that it happened because I am a woman. Would this have happened if I had worn a suit, and a tie?”