Elderly people in the Republic of Ireland are going blind for lack of a simple 20 minute procedure. That’s what Gript was told by Independent TDs Michael Collins and Danny Healy-Rae, standing outside the Dáil at 5:45 a.m. on a freezing cold March morning. Collins, who represents Cork South-West, told the Gript team about the […]
Elderly Irish people are losing their sight for lack of a 20 minute eye procedure. As a result, rural TDs are organising buses to Belfast to get them the surgery they need. The message is this: Go to Belfast, or go blind. #gript
“Unjust and harmful”
“Con job”
Rural TD Michael Collins tells Gript that Green policies are driving the European energy crisis. #gript
“We are pleading with the Agriculture Minister to fully grasp the direness of this situation and to respond with haste”
Blames “crazy green policies”
A TD has said that Ireland could not solve the issue of climate change or substantially reduce global carbon emissions, “even if we went back to the Stone Age.” The remarks were made earlier this week by Independent Cork South-West TD Michael Collins. FOOD IS NOT A LUXURY “Agriculture should not be carrying a levy […]
A TD has called on the government to find a site in Dublin city for a statue of General Michael Collins with his famous bicycle, in honour of the fallen rebel’s 100th death anniversary next year. The remarks were made yesterday by Independent Cork South-West TD Michael Collins in the Dáil. “On Saturday, 23rd October […]
“The Brazilians must be falling over in stitches because of what is happening in this country”
Since assuming office, the government have crucified the Irish fishing industry through massive fish quota losses and a raft of new stringent regulations and penalties, Michael Collins TD has said. Speaking with the Rural Independent Group, the Cork South West TD slammed what he described the government’s “gigantic failures” – to protect Ireland’s fishing interests, […]
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 […]