Ms Reem Alsalam, is the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls – and it’s her job to monitor, document, and report on said human rights violations around the world.
Another month has brought another new homelessness record, with more than half of all adults in emergency accommodation confirmed as non-Irish citizens. According to the Monthly Homelessness Report ...
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has carried out “dawn raids” of businesses active in the solar panel industry as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected breaches of ...
There were some important political exchanges this week as the Oireachtas Health Committee examined the Health (Abolition of the Three Day Wait Rule) Amendment Bill. The Sinn Féin proposal would scrap ...
Fine Gael has been in government, in some form or other, since 2011. It cannot be allowed to wipe its hands of any of the major problems Ireland is currently facing, which is precisely what Tánaiste ...
Controversial plans to light up Belfast City Hall in support of abortion will not now take place on Monday after a council procedure was used to challenge the decision. Pro-life group, Precious Life, ...
A Social Democrats TD has drawn criticism for suggesting that entire websites should be shut down to prevent the spread of harmful content – a proposal likened to something from a “totalitarian regime ...
It will come as no surprise that RTÉ’s 8 am morning bulletin flooded our kitchens with bad news again this morning; today’s dose, however, made me particularly angry. According to the National Youth ...
Cllr Albert Deasy asks if local councillors pay a price for challenging the media - and argues that he doesn’t want a friend in the media, he just wants fairness.
Nearly forty years after the Chornobyl disaster pushed Italy to abandon atomic energy, the country’s Senate gave final approval this week to legislation that reopens the door to nuclear power. The ...
A growing body of research is challenging a long-standing public narrative about violence against transgender Americans and instead suggesting that intimate partner violence, not ‘hate crime’, is the ...
Following Dublin City Council’s release of social housing data broken down by nationality, a Fianna Fáil councillor has said other local authorities should follow suit.