“The Dáil will return next week”, announced the Taoiseach this morning, which is slightly different from his position yesterday, which was that the Dáil might not, in fact, return next week, because Fine Gael is so ready for a General Election. It’s good that the national parliament is returning for at least one more week, […]
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said that there is now a full scale health emergency in Irish hospitals and that the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, is an “absolute disaster” for the health service. The Tipperary TD said that Leo Varadkar needed to step in and relive minister Harris from the role. Last week, the Irish Nurses […]
Yesterday, New Years Day, saw a small group of pro-life protestors conducting some form of silent vigil/protest outside the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, an action that provoked anger from consultant obstetrician Dr. Mary Higgins: Right here (national maternity hospital), right now 1/1/20; wonder why we need exclusion zones @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD – beneath the windows […]
Senior gynaecologist Dr. Aoife Mullally has been appointed as the HSE’s clinical lead for abortion services in Ireland, having previously acted as Lead Consultant in the labour ward of the Coombe Hospital.
Minister for Health Simon Harris has only met with the board of the controversial Children’s Hospital twice in three years, it has been revealed.
Christmas is over, and it’s that time of year when we reflect on the year that has just passed, and what happened in it. In that spirit, here are the five politicians who we think had the best 2019, and the five who had the worst. Note: We’re primarily concerned with Ireland here, but of […]
This business of demanding that social media censor every opinion that we don’t like just isn’t going to end well. Here’s another press hit this morning for the Minister for blaming everybody but himself for Health: “HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris is to meet with a number of social media companies today to discuss the spread […]
Last night, Fine Gael members in her Dun Laoghaire constituency voted, in effect, to boot Maria Bailey from the Fine Gael ticket for the next General Election, whenever that might come: The meeting last night heard from Deputy Bailey and her detractors, with some calling for her removal from the party ticket. A majority voted […]
A 13-year old boy with a diagnosis of autism and a history of violent and aggressive behaviour has been stuck in Temple Street Children’s Hospital for almost seven months, because the HSE is refusing to fund a residential care place available for him. Daniel Hurley’s distraught parents say that keeping their child in Temple Street […]
The family of Emma Mhic Mhathúna have remembered her as “beautiful and brave” on the first anniversary of her death, and have said that they hoped “something positive will come from her journey and her passing”. Mrs Mhic Mhathúna, a mother of five, was one of 221 women given incorrect smear test results by the […]
I was trying to think this morning what this was like, and it occurred to me that the thing it’s most like is when the players on a Premier Division Football team let it know that they have lost confidence in the Manager. “He’s lost the dressing room”, the pundits would declare, and a sacking […]
Minister for Health Simon Harris acknowledged that there was a breach of the abortion law in the case where a healthy unborn baby was aborted in the mistaken belief that it suffered a terminal illness, Peadar Tóibín has told the Dáil. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a healthy baby boy was aborted after […]