Pain of late-term abortion
€138 per sq foot “despicable”
A majority of opposition parties in the Dáil, with the exception of Aontú and the Rural Independent Group, have united to severely limit the rights of Catholic and denominational schools and to support the Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021 brought forward by the Social Democrats. The Private Members Bill would prohibit […]
“Failure to engage”
Government completely insensitive to the needs of farm families
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]
There were sharp exchanges in the Dáil last night as the government refused to accept calls from four independent TDs who called for places of worship to be open for Easter, to limited numbers of the faithful, under strict conditions. Carol Nolan, Richard O’Donoghue, Michael Collins and Mattie McGrath had strongly argued that churches could be re-opened […]
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 […]