A London court has ruled the Australian journalist cannot be extradited to the US because of his mental health and a risk of suicide should an extradition proceed.
“Every devout Catholic should at this stage be boycotting RTE and refusing to renew your TV license,” Fr. Mulligan insisted.
Interesting fact of the day, for those of you who don’t think so much about the words you use: “Amen”, which christian people customarily say at the end of a prayer, doesn’t actually have anything to do with men. It’s derived from Ancient Hebrew, the language of the jewish people at the time of the […]
Residents of Blanchardstown and other parts of north county Dublin say they have endured 24 hours of violence and intimidation following the death of George Nkencho, an African man who was shot by Gardai after he attacked staff at a Eurospar armed with a knife. According to eyewitnesses, Mr Nkencho punched a manager in the store, […]
A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, has found “no evidence of asymptomatic transmission” according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. “A mass screening programme of more than 10 million residents of Wuhan, China, performed after SARS-CoV-2 was brought under control, has identified 300 asymptomatic cases of covid-19, none of […]
A Chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for four years because she reported what she saw in the crowded hospitals of Wuhan when the coronavirus first impacted the city. Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty in the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” because she criticised the Chinese’s government’s […]
Mass-goers in Limerick prayed outside a city-centre church this morning after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect yesterday.
Catholics in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal prayed outside their cathedral after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect this morning.
The European Commission has agreed to give Estonian national robotics company Milrem almost €36 million in grant money to create a new standard for unmanned military ground vehicles, the company has announced. The deal, which was signed earlier this month, is set to develop a new generation of battlefield robots. Known as Integrated Modular Unmanned […]
A bit of twitter bait here from the Brazilian Foreign Minister: The pandemic must not lead to totalitarian social control or the abrogation of fundamental freedoms. Freedom is foundational to the UN and essential to human dignity. Brazil🇧🇷 stands for freedom. No to the “Great Reset” My speech at UN session on Covid:https://t.co/mrxDVKXCSa pic.twitter.com/nxrEagxeEq — […]
Charlie McConalogue tested positive for Covid-19 this morning after a recent trip to Brussels.
The Iraqi parliament has unanimously voted to make Christmas Day an official state holiday.