“These are the only black and tans we’ll be supporting”, shouted Mary-Lou amid rapturous cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ from supporters, “and you can tell all the begrudgers to take a running jump off…”, at which point the microphone was cut and Smith awkwardly averted her gaze.
In terms of the arithmetic that governs the balance of power within Leinster House, the results of the four by-elections make little difference. The only way in which the Government can be forced into calling an early election is if Fianna Fáil support a motion of no confidence, and there was little evidence that even […]
Aontú has accused Sinn Féin of distributing a bogus sample ballot paper in advance of today’s by-election in Wexford.
It’s worth recalling that Arlene Foster was eight years old in 1979 when her father, John Kelly (Foster is her married name) was shot in the head in the driveway of the family home. Speaking about the experience in 2015, she recalled: “I was eight when my father, John Kelly, was shot – I hadn’t […]
At the 1934 congress of the All Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) up to 300 of the 1,200 delegates cast negative votes for Stalin in the election for the Central Committee. So paranoid and irate was Stalin that he had the offending delegates hunted down and murdered. Indeed, the majority of the delegates lost their lives […]
The SDLP have walked out of the Stormont Assembly and stymied an attempt by the DUP to introduce a bill preventing the British government from imposing abortion on the north of Ireland. Pro-life groups said that while Sinn Féín’s support for the extreme abortion law was already established , the actions of the SDLP were […]
Abortion is forced on the people of North of Ireland: “My twins were just born premature at 30 weeks, and I’ve spent the last few days looking at them in the incubator, small but perfect, and its just heartbreaking to know it will be legal to kill babies like them.” #grip
For many nationalists, Sinn Féin’s craven entreaty for a return to direct rule feels like an act of treason. People fought and died for Irish freedom. Now Sinn Féin are happy to sign that freedom away in order to see abortion legalised.
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald, has been slammed for hypocrisy after she said Brexit was being foisted on the north while her party works to enable Westminster in forcing abortion on the region. Yesterday, Deputy McDonald said: “There is no such thing as a good Brexit. Brexit is being foisted on the north of […]
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 […]
There has been a lot of anger from pro-choice activists this morning in relation to this new leaflet from Aontú. Downs Syndrome and abortion is an emotive subject, as citizens of the republic learned last year. Now Aontú is putting it front and centre of the ongoing debate in Northern Ireland. Debate, actually, is the […]
A row between local residents, Government, and a prominent local business family over the provision of direct provision has broken out in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, where over 1,100 people have signed a petition saying that they no longer feel safe walking through their own town because of large groups of migrants congregating in the centre […]