A nation in thrall to LANDLORDS again? Tim Jackson on why government policy is driving RENT sky high and also making it harder for people to buy their own homes.
PAUL Lawless says Mayo is not getting vital EU funding – because the government FAILED to apply for Ten-T funding which is badly needed and which Mayo is entitled to for development and transport. The @AontúIE candidate says Mayo is being let down by the political parties and change must come in the local elections.
Leo Varadkar acknowledges that the government is “running into real difficulties around restricting peaceful protest and restricting free speech” in regard to banning protests or outreaches at abortion centres.
Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute said that it was absolutely extraordinary that the Dáil was discussing how best to ban peaceful protests simply because abortion centres wished to maximise the number of babies being killed.
“The right to free speech and to peaceful protest are the cornerstones of democracy and it’s appalling to see so-called liberals like Louise O’Reilly of Sinn Féin seek to limit the right to people to reach out to women in crisis and offer them a better alternative than abortion,” she said. “The Taoiseach has now acknowledged that these are peaceful protests, so why are his government trying to censor its own citizens at the behest of the abortion industry?”
SECULAR BLASPHEMY? Cllr Keith Redmond says the proposal from Irish government that Facebook could request PPS numbers to register users is worrying.
Prof. Ray Kinsella says that had the Irish government handled Brexit differently we would not be looking at the costs that are being projected and imposed on us. The Irish chose to work with the EU to impale the UK on the backstop when they had other alternatives – such as telling the EU that under the Good Friday agreement Ireland could have mediated a settlement directly with the UK to minimise any trade and business frictions, the leading economist told Gript.
Fisherman Gerard Kelly from Donegal is CONTINUING his hunger strike outside the Dáil as he says the government are carrying out a “dirty deed” by giving away fishing rights to foreign entities who will destroy the shellfish fishing in the northern coasts.