Belfast Honors Plastic Bullet Ban Campaigners
January 19, 2019 No Responses

Belfast Honors Plastic Bullet Ban Campaigners

An area of west Belfast where a prominent police station once stood has been named after two local women who campaigned against the use of plastic bullets. Located on the site of the former Andersonstown RUC Station, Groves Reilly Corner...
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Paisley Urged to Reimburse Charity for New York Air Fare
January 18, 2019 No Responses

Paisley Urged to Reimburse Charity for New York Air Fare

Democratic Unionist Ian Paisley has been urged by a fellow MP to reimburse a charity for the price of a first class plane ticket to New York. The North Antrim representative traveled to New York in February 2018 to participate...
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Bruton Calls for Lifestyle Changes to Tackle Climate Change
January 18, 2019 No Responses

Bruton Calls for Lifestyle Changes to Tackle Climate Change

The Environment Minister has said the public must realize that changes will have to be made to their lives in order for Ireland to tackle climate change. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, Richard Bruton, held a...
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Brian Crowley Announces He Will Not Run in European Elections
January 17, 2019 No Responses

Brian Crowley Announces He Will Not Run in European Elections

Brian Crowley has announced that he will not run in the next European elections due to ill health. At a press conference in the Rochestown Park Hotel this afternoon, he announced that he will not be contesting the European elections...
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iCare Housing Helps Families Avoid Eviction and Rebuild Their Lives
January 17, 2019 No Responses

iCare Housing Helps Families Avoid Eviction and Rebuild Their Lives

A housing charity has said it has helped 19 families faced with repossession orders remain in their homes over the past 12 months. iCare Housing use the state’s mortgage-to-rent scheme to help homeowners faced with eviction to stay in their...
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Bertie Ahern Calls for May to Allow ‘Indicative Votes’ on Brexit
January 16, 2019 No Responses

Bertie Ahern Calls for May to Allow ‘Indicative Votes’ on Brexit

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says that British Prime Minister Theresa May needs to “swallow humble pie” and consider indicative votes and to meet with Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn. “It’s extraordinary that they can’t talk to each other,” he t...
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Taoiseach Still Hopeful on Brexit Deal
January 15, 2019 No Responses

Taoiseach Still Hopeful on Brexit Deal

Leo Varadkar has said that he still hopeful for a deal on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. Commentators said on Monday that the British Prime Minister’s Withdrawal Agreement looked likely to fail in the House of Commons vote on...
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Leinster House Begins Commemorations of Dail Eireann’s Centenary
January 15, 2019 No Responses

Leinster House Begins Commemorations of Dail Eireann’s Centenary

Leinster House will host two days of the Dail100 Experience as part of the centenary commemorations running throughout 2019, beginning on January 19. On Tuesday, the Ceann Comhairle Sean O Fearghail TD welcomed actors playing historical figures to the home...
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Bill Brought Forward to Restore Birthright Citizenship
January 15, 2019 No Responses

Bill Brought Forward to Restore Birthright Citizenship

A bill that would restore the right of those born in Ireland to become Irish citizens is before the Dail this week. The results of the 2004 citizenship referendum meant that children born here to non-national parents would no longer...
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Bob Geldof Calls Hardcore Brexiteers ‘Headbangers’
January 14, 2019 No Responses

Bob Geldof Calls Hardcore Brexiteers ‘Headbangers’

Irish rocker, Bob Geldof, described hardcore Brexiteers as “headbangers” as he picked up an Honorary Doctorates of Letters from University of Limerick, along with best-selling novelist Marian Keyes. Both Geldof and Keyes received the honorary awards for th...
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