Legislation reaches Oireachtas health committee
School ethos “didn’t come up” unprompted as a problem.
If there was an order of Nuns campaigning for this, on the basis that it was a good path out of poverty for fallen Irish women, we all know what these politicians would be saying.
“I HIT A NERVE”: Carol Nolan TD speaks on her immigration clash with Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien in the Dáil, dubbing the Minister’s response “a disgrace.”
On ‘terfs’ and other things
Population increase.
Radical powers
It is very unusual for the Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil to make any interventions whatever in political matters, given that the chair is generally sworn to neutrality. Which makes this one, then, all the more notable: Ceann Comhairle Sean Ó Fearghaíl said he was refusing to allow debates on an “inordinate number of complaints […]
An Irish Examiner story, for the record, not one of ours. We have higher standards, you see. Anyway, here’s what they wrote. It went super-viral online, as you might expect: “A number of TDs have raised the question of new allowances to allow them to purchase office equipment while they work from home during the […]
Noel Grealish TD was in the wars again yesterday over immigration. This time, he was accused of racism for asking the Taoiseach at leaders questions about the amount of money leaving Ireland in “remittances” to Nigeria. A remittance is money sent home by an emigrant. For many years, for example, Irish families benefitted from money […]
An independent survey, which aimed to determine the extent to which bullying and sexual harassment was prevalent within the Oireachtas, has shown that bullying and harassment, both verbal and sexual, of staff within the Oireachtas is common, with 1 in 5 of those surveyed saying they had been bullied or harassed, verbally or sexually, within […]
You won’t see much criticism of this proposal from Sinn Fein in the rest of the Irish media, but it’s the height of hypocrisy, not to mention a very bad idea: “A NEW BILL to prevent broadcasters from banning journalists from appearing on their airwaves because of their employer will be brought forward in Dáil […]