Ó Ríordáin: “get them out”
Labour’s Aodhan Ó Ríordáin has been strongly criticised for using the phrase “get them out” while urging the Labour Party’s 2021 Conference to end religious patronage in schools. The Dublin Bay North TD told Labour delegates that religious patronage in schools needed to be ended, adding: “If that requires a referendum, we should do it and […]
“What are the Labour Party for?”, asked a colleague who shall remain nameless, yesterday, as we were deciding who would write about this weekend’s party conference. “After all, what’s unique about them is not popular, and what is popular about them is not unique”. It’s hard to argue with that. The Labour Party is in […]
“desperate to try and restore its ‘socialist’ credentials”
And so, it makes it much easier for Boris and Co to sell a simple message about Starmer: This guy is a weirdo who does not know what a woman is.
Revised rules about handling allegations of wrongdoing against clergy and others in the employment of the Catholic Church were published by the Vatican in June (New Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, 01.06.2021) and were generally received as a positive step towards holding offenders to more stringent account under a wide number of […]
Labour’s Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says he is open to the idea of a merger with the Social Democrats, as well as some elements of the Greens, the SDLP and Fianna Fáil, adding that his party had been “traumatised” after their electoral defeat in 2016. In an interview earlier this month with David Murphy on RTÉ’s […]
Tipperary Deputy Mattie McGrath has strongly criticised the government decision to appoint a former Labour Minister, Kathleen Lynch, to lead a task force and publish yet another report on mental health. Speaking from his Tipperary constituency, Deputy Mattie McGrath said: “Ireland currently has one of the highest levels of mental illness in the EU. It […]
The Cabinet today is to approve a proposal that will mark a radical undermining of the vote of the people in the citizenship referendum in 2004. That referendum, carried with almost 80% approval, closed off a loophole whereby a large number of people had come to Ireland, in order to be automatically be granted Irish […]
To mark International Women’s Day, The Labour Party published a new manifesto called Labour. Working for Women. In it, the party, under Alan Kelly’s leadership, has provided its clearest signal yet that it will seek a radical and extreme liberalisation of the current abortion law. The manifesto also commits to making peaceful protest against […]
Whenever you see something this tin-eared, there are really only two possibilities worth considering. The first is that the Labour Party, and its advisers, live in such a bubble that they genuinely don’t know how weird and odd it seems to normal people to assert that periods and menstruation are a gender-neutral experience. The second? […]
Tony Blair has said global vaccine passports should be at the top of the G7 agenda.