A British nurse has been charged with eight counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in relation to baby deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Police say children’s nurse Lucy Letby was originally arrested and questioned over the killing of the babies in 2018, but was released. After further investigation she was re-arrested and charged yesterday. […]
The television licence, as regular readers will know, goes almost in its entirety to RTE, with a small amount set aside for TG4 and Irish language programming. It’s also an absolute abomination. And it seems that a lot of Irish people have come to the same conclusion: THE “BROKEN” TV licence system is costing about […]
Let’s face it: In one, very limited respect, this isn’t the worst idea in the world. January is everyone’s least favourite month, right? Maybe if we move Christmas, we can retain all the festive cheer of December, but keep the mince pies and mulled wine and Mariah Carey singing inappropriate lines about Santa Claus until […]
Police shot rubber bullets at Polish nationalists marching through Warsaw in celebration of the country’s Independence Day yesterday.
The Austrian government is set to outlaw the deliberate spreading of “political Islam” in the country following last week’s terror attack in Vienna.
Secretary of State for Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, has announced that there will be a full recount in his state by-hand, in an attempt to audit the election. He says that vote counters will aim to complete the count by November 20th, which is the certification deadline. Raffensperger expressed support for the local election officials, saying […]
The Japanese suicide rate has risen to the highest rate in at least half a decade, police data revealed this week. While suicide has long been a serious and widespread issue in Japan, numbers have skyrocketed in recent months as the covid-19 pandemic wears on. As of October of 2020, over 13,000 lives have been […]
In the week since American voters went to the polls, most things about the result have become clear, and a few things remain outstanding. Joe Biden has been declared, by the media, Democrats, and more than a few Republicans, to be the President-Elect. He has spent the last few days beginning to assemble an administration, […]
It is very unusual for the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil to make any interventions whatever in political matters, given that the chair is generally sworn to neutrality. Which makes this one, then, all the more notable: Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghaíl said he was refusing to allow debates on an “inordinate number of complaints […]
Proposals to extend coronavirus restrictions in the north of Ireland for two more weeks have been blocked by the DUP. Health Minister, Robin Swann, had recommended keeping the measures in place until 27 November, but after a day of fraught meetings the DUP used its veto to block the proposal. This constitutes a rare use of the […]
The figures in relation to elder abuse, released yesterday by the HSE, are simply astonishing. Here’s Newstalk with a summary: The health service’s National Safeguarding Office received almost 12,000 ‘concerns’ of abuse of vulnerable people last year. Some 3,337 related to adults over 65-years-of-age – a 9% increase on the year before. One third (33%) […]
As the Covid lockdowns continue in all parts of the island, there continues to be criticism of the heavy-handed approach adopted by both jurisdictions. The northern lockdown is due to end on Friday, but there is a strong possibility that it will be extended. First Minister Arlene Foster said earlier that she hoped that there […]