Looking back on the last few NPHET pressers and Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s message to the nation last night (March 30), the reckless embrace of societal paralysis prompts a lot of head scratching. When you aren’t ruled by fear of an endemic virus which has…

Jedward said marching with Black Lives Matter protestors in Los Angeles made them feel like they're "making a change."

“Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe,” Nune Pashayan, a health department official, told a news conference this week. The government plans to triple funding for reproductive programs. Mr Pashayan cited a number of statistics. The fertility rate is…

A Brussels court has ruled that “all coronavirus measures” imposed by the Belgian state must be lifted within 30 days, because the legal basis on which they have been made is insufficient.  The ruling came Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by The League for…

The allegations that the French philosopher Michel Foucault – who has been long admired and oft-quoted by the liberal left in Ireland – repeatedly raped pre-pubescent boys in Tunisia during his time as a lecturer there in the late 1960s have raised serious…

A report from the Roman Province of Judea “I, Lucius Tacitus, write from the Province of Judea in the month of Aprilis, the XIX year of the reign of the August Caesar Tiberius. Events have come to pass in the Province this past month which must be brought…

The European Commission and the U.S. government are looking at a form of vaccine passports

An online HSE system used for staff vaccination has allegedly been widely abused by non-healthcare workers, with many individuals jumping their place in the queue for the vaccine. According to the Irish Daily Mail, the HSE’s online page for arranging vaccinations…

Stephen Donnelly has been asked to amend false statements he made to the Dail.

What the sanctions might be will be interesting

White families are explicitly excluded from the race-based program which is funded by wealthy private donors

The Taoiseach was visibly annoyed by Peadar Tóibín TD's request that the government guarantee the immediate return of "full cancer services."

Sinn Féin have put in a submission to the Commission on the Defence Forces, warning of the alleged danger of “far-right disinformation hacking into the minds” of Irish soldiers, posing a “serious threat to democracy itself.” In possibly one of the most melodramatic…

This includes powerful women like Jane Deegan Coleman who was born in 1896.

The Government have succeeded in keeping our Churches – not their Churches but our Churches – closed during Holy Week: a week on which our whole Christian faith pivots.  It cannot be said too often that there was no medical reason to do so.  It has been a …

The Government has finally arrested a religious minister; mandatory quarantine moves from failing to farcical; vaccination figures don’t add up; and Sinn Fein having a Facebook moderator from Serbia is not the knockout scandal the Indo and FG seem to think…

A 74-year old grandmother who flew from New Zealand to live with her family in Ireland, says that she feels “a prisoner” after being forced to stay in a Dublin quarantine hotel – even though her country of origin has an exceptionally low rate of Covid infection…

A Campaigner and former councillor has said that an anti-lockdown event planned for Easter Saturday will go ahead despite his arrest at a protest yesterday in Cork city centre.  Diarmaid Ó Cadhla was one of three men arrested on St Patrick’s Bridge yesterday…

Part of the rationale for the Black Lives Matter kneel is to express either anger at the treatment of “people of colour”, if you are a person of colour, or alternatively remorse at the treatment, past present and future of people of colour if you are a white…

Dualta Roughneen writes

Paul Reid and Stephen Donnelly should both be sacked.