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.

St Patricks Day: GPO Dublin, Gardai enforce Lockdown

A new review of the evidence behind administering puberty blockers to children has said that the evidence available regarding “the clinical effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness” of administering puberty blockers to children, and adolescents aged 18…

The stark message of Easter is that we don't have to be locked down in misery, fear, tears or empty promises anymore, because Christ has opened the way to heaven with Him, and all we must do is prepare.

Our elders deserve better company than robots

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Good Friday Procession in the Phoenix park

Lorcán Mac Mathúna explores the intense spirituality of the writings of Patrick Pearse: poet, visionary, educator and leader of the Easter Rising, 1916

New Signing.

Asking mildly-mean questions about children's shoes might put you on a naughty list in that regard.   

Easter is perhaps the most important time of the year to remember those who fought for our freedom, and by commemorating the past, we look forward to the future. We celebrate the various battles in the fight for Irish Freedom and recall with pride the ultimate…

The president of the GAA has said vaccine passports might be needed to allow crowds attend matches in the near future.