Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned that tax increases are “very likely” after the covid-19 pandemic, in a total contradiction of what Táinaiste Leo Varadkar said just 2 weeks before. Speaking on Thursday the 4th of March at an ESRI event, Donohoe stated that the government would be moving to reduce the budget […]
The HSE has confirmed that it will continue to facilitate medical interventions for children who are seeking to change their sex, despite the landmark Tavistock ruling in the United Kingdom which found that it was “highly unlikely” that children under 16 would be able to provide fully informed consent to the procedures involved. Tavistock is […]
A Irish woman living in Gran Canaria was gang-raped by four North African migrants after she stopped to express concern for their plight, it has been reported. Local papers said that the woman was 36-years old and had lived on the island for several years with her family. She was walking through the Agua La Perra […]
The sex offender’s victim was a four-year-old boy whose mother had started a relationship before the abuser transitioned.
A 17-year-old girl was beheaded by her father in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Only 5,780 doses of vaccine were administered on Monday of this week. Low numbers over the past few weekends, and Mondays, has led to the Government missing its weekly vaccination numbers for the last two weeks running. The Government has blamed those failures to hit targets on supply issues but that does not appear to […]
Photo credit: Keresaspa on Wikimedia Commons, (CC BY-SA 3.0) Unionist paramilitary organisations have told British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that they are officially withdrawing their support for the Good Friday peace accord out of anger for the Northern Ireland Protocol. Signs were spotted in County Tyrone, reading “Our forefathers fought for our freedom and rights […]
In an interview with Virgin Media, Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has said that he would be “very surprised” if the UK was able to achieve its stated targets for re-opening the British economy, and refused to give a similar timeline for Ireland. “I would be very surprised if [the UK was] able to meet those dates, […]
In a move that would seem to be deeply embarrassing for everyone involved Baybars Orsek, the Chief Executive of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), the group which accredits the Journal.ie as a Facebook fact-checker, has told Gript that one of the Journal’s recent fact-checks does not meet the criteria to be considered a fact-check and […]
A remarkable decision, and one that will be closely watched around the world. For good or ill, we’re about to have an enormous laboratory test on whether facemasks really are making any difference in keeping the pandemic contained: Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to […]
It’s good journalistic practice, as a general rule, to ask a person for comment before you write about them. But before sitting down to write this piece, last night, the only question that this writer could think to ask acting President of the University of Limerick, Kerstin May, was this: Have you lost your mind? […]
The Rural Independent Group has welcomed Seachtain na Gaeilge and called for a renewed focus on the future of the Irish language, saying a language defines a people, a culture and that “both are inseparable”. “Seachtain na Gaelige provides an opportunity to showcase our language and shine a light on the need for the State […]