The girls on Kevin Harty’s computer were mostly aged between eight years old, and sixteen years old. Some were nine. Some ten. Some eleven. One of the girls on his computer was a baby, aged between one and two. Thankfully, the court was spared the details of exactly what was being done to the children […]
The cabinet has approved Climate Minister Eamon Ryan’s suggestion to add a provision to the Climate Action Bill which would ban all oil and gas exploration in Ireland, despite the country facing a potential energy crisis post-Brexit. This was a previous commitment from the initial Programme for Government agreement last year, and one of the […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for an Emergency Response Unit to be set up in support of Nursing Homes in crisis. Today it was revealed that 369 deaths associated with Covid-19 had taken place in nursing homes in January, with 193 outbreaks currently in the care homes. “We’ve seen a warning from the […]
You’ve probably heard by now, at least in passing on the news, about the Military Coup in Myanmar that appears to have resulted in poor old Aung San Suu Kyi being locked up again. If you haven’t heard, here’s the BBC: Myanmar’s military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically […]
On October 7th, last year, the Irish Times delivered its damning verdict on the British Government’s handling of Covid-19. “Fantasy as Policy”, it pronounced. “What is clear”, the paper said, “is that the British prime minister has not lost his capacity for nonsense – his speech was full of Churchillian bluster and exceptionalism about the […]
A man caught with 1,299 video files of children being sexually abused, has escaped a custodial sentence in a Dublin court today. Kevin Harty, who is a former national swimmer and lifeguard, who was caught in possession of thousands of files of child pornography received a fully suspended sentence today in the Dublin Circuit Court. […]
The former taoiseach said a border poll could take place on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
The Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) has removed a recently published guide to transgender healthcare from its website following questioning of the report by Gript. The report “Guide for Providing Care for Transgender Patients in Primary Care – Quick Reference Guide” had been written in conjunction with the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI). Following […]
Michael O’Leary has launched a blistering attack on NPHET and RTÉ over their depiction of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Management Board of the Tavistock Clinic’s Gender Identity Development Services (GIDS), which specialized in the treatment of children, has been disbanded following “growing scrutiny and controversy.” 124 Irish children have been sent to the clinic for assessment or treatment over the past 3 years, with 7,883 British children, some as young as 4, being […]
Whenever you see something this tin-eared, there are really only two possibilities worth considering. The first is that the Labour Party, and its advisers, live in such a bubble that they genuinely don’t know how weird and odd it seems to normal people to assert that periods and menstruation are a gender-neutral experience. The second? […]
The headline most other media outlets seemed to take away from the Taoiseach’s comments yesterday was that lockdown would go on past March 5th. But that’s not really news, is it? Most of us had guessed that already. No, the far more significant news was in the small print: Micheál Martin said he did not […]