With additional reporting from Gary Kavanagh. Photo: The four final draft logos for the Green Left. An array of dissident Green activists have been working for six months to launch a new political party, with the aim of undermining the Greens, according to documents leaked to Gript. Putative members of the new Group include ex-Green […]
Scotland’s ban on public worship as part of the covid-19 regulations has been overturned in the Scottish Court of Session after a challenge by Glasgow Catholic priest, Canon Tom White, along with a coalition of 27 other faith leaders. The judge said that the regulations went further than was legally permissible, but that this did […]
A Brazilian woman who worked as a rickshaw driver in Dublin, and who was ordered by the court to leave the country or spend a year in prison for dealing ecstasy tablets, is still living in Ireland three years later and is collecting the Covid Pandemic Unemployment Payment, a court has heard. Bianca Francisco […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said that the government has now moved into GUBU territory following a demand from the High Court that the State must clarify, within two weeks, whether or not there is a legal basis for Covid-19 restrictions on people physically attending Mass. Deputy Nolan was speaking following the […]
If you listened to the radio, yesterday, or read a newspaper, yesterday, then there’s a good chance you’ll have come across the horrifying news that Ireland has had a “record number” of racist incidents over the last year. There is a good chance, too, that you’ll have heard that this is entirely the fault of […]
Fine Gael Seanad Leader Regine Doherty has bemoaned an alleged surge in online abuse of politicians, saying that “even political sympathisers and supporters seem to think now that it is fair game to give their tuppence worth to our elected representatives.” https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1374327729814962178 “A number of colleagues have discussed online abuse. I can only say that […]
There has been a huge amount written about the numerous anti-lockdown protests we’ve recently seen. Mainstream media and politicians have alternated between calling the protesters racists, conspiracy theorists, fascists, and simply describing them as useful idiots being manipulated by an ominously vague “far-right.” Political protests, by their very nature, attract a variety of political groups […]
Dozens of teens engaged in a vicious fight on Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin city centre yesterday evening, with one teenager left stabbed and requiring hospitalisation. A video posted by RM.tv shows teenagers, male and female, engaged in a disturbing fight on the bridge, which forced traffic to a halt for a short time. “Get him, […]
The state has been given two weeks to clarify whether, in fact, there is a law against masses being said in public. The instruction was made today by Judge Charles Meenan, as part of the constitutional case being taken by businessman Declan Ganley. Mr. Ganley’s lawyers used a procedural hearing today to raise the question […]
Fianna Fáil TD Jim O’Callaghan has called for better regulations to prevent children accessing pornography online. “I think there is a lack of appreciation of how prevalent pornography now is in the lives of children,” the Dublin Bay South TD said. “They can easily access graphic and violent pornography online. This can give children a […]
Three weeks after the Governor of the US State of Texas announced an end to all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions, including the mandatory use of facemasks, and two weeks after those measures took effect, cases of Covid are still falling in the Lone Star state. In the first week of March, when the announcement was […]
This is….. not a decision that makes a whole lot of sense, actually: GREEN PARTY COUNCILLOR Hazel Chu has announced that she will run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Seanad by-election. Chu, the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Green Party’s chairperson, did not receive backing from her party to run but submitted […]