Yesterday, Dr. Anthony O’Connor, a consultant gastroenterologist (the speciality dealing with ailments of the stomach and digestive system and not, notably, dealing with respiratory diseases like Covid 19) announced that he would no longer continue to tweet about the Covid 19 crisis – or indeed tweet at all – after “somebody close to Stephen Donnelly” […]
“You don’t have to be a citizen, it’s for anybody who’s here,” Mr Donnelly said.
Independent TD, Carol Nolan, has asked the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, to investigate revelations that the same insulation used in tower block in Grenfell is to be used in the construction of the new National Children’s Hospital. The Deputy for Laois Offaly said she had submitted a number of questions to the office of […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly to make a statement in the Dáil to correct a statement he made in relation to a Covid-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Galway in October. The Minister accused the Aontú leader of telling a “flat out lie” when he raised the […]
The Minister for Health will first monitor the effectiveness of vaccines on the transmissibility of Covid-19.
Protests have been held across the country demanding that the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, investigate and take action on the revelations regarding late-term abortion in Ireland published in a paper in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Activists held placards saying that doctors had described these abortions as “stabbing the baby in the heart” and […]
Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly, failed to show up in the Dáil yesterday to answer questions from TDs who said that he needed to take urgent action on what they described as “shocking” and “barbaric” revelations about the practice of late-term abortion in Ireland. Nine TDs supported or spoke on the topical issues debate on late-term abortion in Irish […]
The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has refused to address the issue of babies born alive after abortion in Ireland, as revealed in a shocking new study from UCC which was published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Questions were submitted to Minister Donnelly on the issue by TDs including Peadar Tóibín of […]
An interesting emerging story, this. Here’s the Tánaiste, in his now legendary/infamous (pick your adjective) appearance on Claire Byrne on Monday night: “But what happened on Sunday night came out of the blue. Last Thursday, when we received our advice from NPHET, there was no suggestion at all that they were going to level five” […]
For many people in Ireland, these are tough times. Businesses are in danger of bankruptcy. School students face uncertainty, and teachers are struggling to teach through restrictions. Many people are entering their sixth or seventh month since being able to see, or hug, elderly loved ones. Christmas itself, we hear, may now be imperilled. So, […]
Deputy Tóibín later wrote that: “In my 10 years in Leinster House I have never seen such an absence of democracy.”
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 […]