A shocking report by BBC Newsnight has revealed that staff at England’s only service offering gender reassignment services for young people and children, the Tavistock Trust, believe that real harm is being caused to children because they are being facilitated in rushing to make irreversible decisions about changing sex. The testimony of staff in the Newsnight report is […]
New figures released from the British Department of Health show that abortion rate in England and Wales is at its highest since the 1967 Act was introduced. There were 207,384 abortions for women resident in England and Wales, and 98% of abortions were carried out under ground C, considered social abortions. Most of the abortions […]
In most other western countries, the release of this HSE memo by former Simon Harris appointee Dr. Marcus De Brun would be leading the news everywhere. Not in Ireland, though, where the top story everywhere is about schools re-opening in September, which is almost four months away. And poor Dr. De Brun’s tweet of the […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín has said that 10,000 extra abortions have taken place because of the repeal of the 8th amendment – and that the government had refused any proposals to make the legislation “even more marginally humane” in recent formation talks. The Southern Taskgroup on Abortion and Reproductive Topics an organisation claiming to represent […]
The HSE has been blasted for giving covid test results to bosses before the patients themselves. Ben Scallan comments. #gript
Two years ago, like 723,000 other people, I voted No to removing the 8th amendment from our constitution. I believed that preborn babies have a right to life, that women deserve better than abortion, and that the result of the referendum was the most shameful day in Ireland’s history. I still do. And the last two years […]
Pathologists who analyse cancer samples have been told not to run tests on any biopsies sent by private consultants if those consultants have not signed a new contract for the covid-19 response with the HSE. The claim was made by Stephen Donnelly TD who said an email sent by the State Claims Agency instructed that biopsies […]
Statistical evidence has played a central role in our society’s response to Covid-19. We gather and publish data on so many aspects of this epidemic – the number of deaths, the number of cases, the number of tests, the number of intensive care units available, the recovery rates among hospital admissions, the number of clusters […]
‘Normal people’ should see the problem with licking faeces, but maybe I am expecting too much of our health chiefs.
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed startling failures of leadership across much of the Western world but could the increasingly harmful strategies abopted by various Western nations be redirected to achieve a sustainable response? It is perhaps time to accept that the proverbial horse has bolted, with the near certainty that tens of thousands having […]
WATCH: Fintan O’Toole says he “pities” America over its response to Coronavirus. But here’s a brief recap of what’s happened in his own country #gript
One of the most remarkable achievements of the Irish government in the Covid-19 crisis has been its ability to avoid almost any hard questions for any of its actions, even when they’ve made clearly terrible decisions that would end up costing lives. Most media outlets have simply fallen into line and become mouthpieces for the […]