Independent Senator Ronan Mullen has blasted Minister for Equality Roderic O’Gorman and his department for what he perceives is an unwillingness to disclose important information concerning the referenda in advance of it. Senator Mullen asserts that key insights from a wide-range of strands in society have not been released and lawmakers are suffering as a…
Bishop Alan McGuckian of Raphoe wrote to Justice Minister Helen McEntee criticising policy that sees some immigrants unable to bring family members to Ireland as they earn less than €30,000. People outside the European Economic Area do not have the same entitlements regarding bringing family to Ireland, with one of the conditions being the salary…
Global sensation The Chosen is coming to Irish cinemas from February 1, with the first two episodes of season four set for the big screen. More than 600 million people have watched the multi-series life of Christ and director Dallas Jenkins felt it would do fans a disservice if it didn’t get big screen treatment.…
At least 250 doctors have signed a letter addressed to the leadership of the Irish Medical Council stating that they are “gravely concerned” with recent changes to the code of ethics that governs doctors in Ireland. The recently updated 9th edition of the Medical Council’s ‘Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners’ saw the removal…
Negative coverage of the handover of land for the national maternity hospital, including the burning of nuns in effigy, was “distressing and painful”, the leader of the Religious Sisters of Charity (RSC) has said. Sr Patricia Lenihan, leader of the RSC’s since 2019 – a period of turmoil in which the sisters controversially gifted St…
Homeless people are refusing to access emergency hostel accommodation because they “feel unsafe” due to rampant drug abuse, Fr Peter McVerry has warned. Following the death of a rough sleeper in Dublin City Centre last week – identified as a man in his 40s – the founder of homelessness charity The Peter McVerry Trust said…
Paramilitary violence is “torturing” communities in the North due to “complacency” about peace, a senior Belfast youth worker has warned. It is only a “fluke” that 2023 saw no deaths through paramilitary activities, Mr Stephen Hughes added, responding to figures from the PSNI. Up until 2022, paramilitary violence “was a declining issue”, he told The…
“Exile is not freedom”, an Irish missionary has warned following the release of prominent critic of the totalitarian regime in Nicaragua Bishop Rolando Álvarez, along with 18 other clergy from prison. The news of their release was formally announced by the Vatican on Sunday. Bishop Álvarez, of the Diocese of Matagalpa, was openly critical of…
Aontú Leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has said that the letter submitted by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to the Sunday Independent on the Government’s policy on immigration is ‘misinformation’ and rebutted it on a number of points: Voluntary deportations The Taoiseach: “They have the right to stay here until their application is accepted…
“Human rights concerns” were on the agenda during An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar’s meeting with Chinese Premier, Li Qiang, this week according to the Department of the Taoiseach. Mr Li, China’s second most powerful man, made a two-day state visit to Ireland this week, during which time he met separately with Mr Varadkar at Farmleigh House…
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