Here’s a funny question for you; what exactly is the HSE? That seems like a silly thing to ask, I know. “The Health Service Executive,” you say. “Ireland’s public healthcare system. Duh.” Of course, if you consult the HSE’s “About Us” tab on their website, they say that “The HSE provides all of Ireland’s public […]
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No mandatory vaccine passports protest in Phoenix Park, Dublin, 15 July 2021 Photo credit: Krzysztof M
Anti-lockdown protest at Dáil Éireann 10th July 2021 Photo credit: Krzysztof M
“These are our waters and we want them back” : Irish fishermen slam EU quotas and regulations during protest. Photo credit: Gript
Mica Protest in Dublin and March to Dáil Éireann Photo credit: Gript
A Cork TD has accused the government of “allowing an act of piracy” after what he described as the “harrassment and intimidation of a Castletownbere fishing trawler by a Spanish fishing vessel last weekend”. Rural Independent TD for Cork South West, Michael Collins said the government had failed to take action after the Irish fishing […]
The Sinn Fein Housing Spokesperson, Eoin Ó Broin, and the Sinn Fein TD for Cork North-Central, Thomas Gould, are seeking to compel the state’s Land Development Agency (LDA) to provide for the transfer of public land for the sole purpose of housing asylum seekers. The Sinn Féin TDs made the remarks during a meeting of […]
Demonstrators gathered in Cork Saturday to protest Irish government measures against Covid-19, and what organisers said was an “international coalition of governments, corporations and NGOs that has worked to legitimize extended lockdowns”. While the specific focus of this protest was vaccine passports, the variety of placards on display gave evidence of multifarious agendas among the […]
Protest in Patricks Street, Cork, 1st May Photo credit: John Tangney
A homeless man in Cork has been fined €200 for “hopping into a Garda car” on a cold night in Cork last month.
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 […]