“HEADS NEED TO ROLL” – Independent Cork TD Michael Collins rips government failures in the fishing industry ahead of a major Cork harbour fishing protest this week. #gript
A group of TDs are co-sponsoring a new bill which seeks to ensure that pain relief will be given to unborn babies who are aborted after 20 weeks gestation. Describing it as a humane and reasonable proposal, the TDs said that the measure was worthy of majority support in the Dáil. In recent months […]
“It’s not about climate change – it’s about control”: Rural Independent TDs lay into Climate Bill and call for major amendments. #gript
Rural Independent TD Michael Colllins has slammed the government for abandoning the fishing sector and coastal communities in a Brexit trade-off which destroys the Irish fishing sector while costing thousands of jobs in rural coastal communities. Speaking from his Cork South West Constituency today (Tuesday 5 January 2021) Deputy Collins stated: “The ramifications of the […]
Michael Collins & Mattie McGrath, TDs, “People shouldn’t be made to feel a burden”. TDs on opposing the Assisted Suicide bill #gript
Rural TDs have urged politicians to give cross-party support to their motion which seeks to revoke the latest Covid-19 restrictions passed by the government which they say are “bizzare, illogical, and unworkable.” The Independent TDs were sharply critical of the actions of other deputies who they said voted for the Government’s restrictions in the Dáil […]
The RTE presenter couldn’t resist it, on Sunday afternoon. It might have been nearly six months after the incident, and it might have been in the shadow of several much bigger stories, but this was the opportunity she had been waiting for. “I hear you did well in the Oughterard boxes” was the opening line […]
Four days before the February 8th vote an Ibsos/MRBI poll for TG4 claimed Danny Healy-Rae was in danger of losing his seat in Kerry. He took the seat comfortably. Danny’s brother, Michael Healy-Rae said commentators and pollsters were to be congratulated on being consistently wrong. As Danny told Virgin Media, his stance of putting the people before the […]
Immigration is one of those topics that most reasonable, middle of the road Irish people run away from talking about, for the simple reason that there seems to be no way of talking about it without annoying somebody from one of the two camps that seem to dominate the discussion. Camp one, of course, is […]
The Cork South West Deputy came under fire from Labour leader Brendan Howlin after he discussed direct provision and immigration on C103 Radio.