“The promises of standing by the fishermen of our island nation was forgotten only a few days past, when news broke that Michel Barnier offered 18% of what can only be Irish fish to the UK.”
Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, failed to show up in the Dáil yesterday to answer questions from TDs who said that he needed to take urgent action on what they described as “shocking” and “barbaric” revelations about the practice of late-term abortion in Ireland. Nine TDs supported or spoke on the topical issues debate on late-term abortion in Irish […]
Some of the outgoing President’s supporters have already taken to calling the various Covid vaccines the “Trump Vaccine”, so happy are they to associate his name with success. In fact, here’s White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany calling it that, just yesterday: "It's the Trump vaccine" pic.twitter.com/MTFff7sQfk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 2, 2020 Regardless […]
Remember when this guy was the super-macho, helicopter flying, hard-man bad boy of the British Royal Family? What happened? “At the end of the day, nature is our life source,” the red-headed royal rebel said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Duke of Sussex also described the […]
A new group made up of various far-left organisations is formally launching today in order to campaign against Ireland’s “far right”. “LeCheile” is made up, as you might guess, of all the usual suspects: The National Women’s Council, The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Sinn Fein, The Union of Students in Ireland, Gaza action Ireland, The […]
A promise that Simon Harris made to student nurses may come back to haunt him, after he joined the government in voting against paying student nurses in placement during the Covid crisis. Earlier this year, the then Minister for Health has announced that student nurses would be paid for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis. […]
Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to 13 and a half months in prison by a Hong Kong court.
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called for the nurses retention bill to be scrapped this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. He said that the treatment of nurses who were being asked to pay a €100 rentention fee in a difficult year was in sharp contrast to the bonus Scottish nurses were receiving. “In […]
“It would become virtually impossible to do anything if you don’t have the vaccine.”
The United Kingdom will become the first country in the world to start a programme of mass coronavirus vaccination, with 800,000 doses to be available from next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced: The Pfizer/BioNTech jab is the fastest vaccine to go from concept to reality, taking only 10 months to follow the same […]
For most of the past two decades, Ireland’s economic strategy has been predicated on keeping corporation tax low, and attracting multinational companies to invest in Ireland. By and large, it’s worked a treat, with some downsides that we’ll come to in a moment. But attracting companies is one thing. Attracting skilled workers to lead and […]
Aontú Rep for Cork North-West, Becky Kealy, has critiqued the government’s continued abandonment of rural pubs, and the return of arbitrary regulations of the pub trade which has already been through so much this year. Ms Kealy said that “In Cork, rural Pubs were waiting in anticipation for the government announcement regarding restrictions for the […]