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The Department of Education has removed from an official website booklets that invited students to discuss “homophobic” statements. booklet used to teach relationships and sexual education (RSE) to first, second and third-year secondary students as part of Social, Physical and Health Education (SPHE) contained a list of statements, for discussion in classes, which have been described as “homophobic” by Fine Gael TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. The booklets, intended for use by teachers in classrooms, were removed from the S phe.ie website, which is run by the Department-funded Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), only four months ago. The exercise included...

Northern Ireland’s health minister is suing Van Morrison after the singer called him “very dangerous” for his handling of coronavirus restrictions. The Belfast-born singer opposes restrictions to curb the spread of the virus, and has released several songs criticizing lockdowns. He denounced Northern Ireland Health Minister Robin Swann during a gathering at Belfast’s Europa Hotel in June after a Morrison concert was canceled at the last minute because of virus restrictions. The defamation suit relates to three incidents in which Morrison criticized Swann, calling him “a fraud” and “very dangerous.” …

Scheme continues to be a shambolic mess.. Scottish nightclubs are bypassing the country’s shambolic vaccine passport system by placing chairs on the dance floor and announcing that customers’ vaccine status won’t be checked. Yes, really. “Lulu, a major nightclub in Edinburgh, has begun marketing itself to unvaccinated Scots by advertising the fact that door staff will not be carrying out checks on whether customers have been jabbed,” reports the Telegraph. By placing seats on the dance floor, the venue is asserting that it no longer qualifies as a nightclub and should be under the same rules as pubs, which aren’t...

In a new interview with "Amanpour And Company", Dave Grohl said that the chapter about NIRVANA frontman Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide in his newly released memoir "The Storyteller: Tales Of Life And Music" was the most difficult part of the book to write. Asked why he chose to write that chapter last, Grohl said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "'Cause I was scared to write it. It's one thing to write about getting stitches when you're 12 years old or it's one thing to write about taking your kids to the daddy-daughter dance, it's another thing to write about something that...

(LifeSiteNews) — Irish men are taking up the mantle of witnessing to the Catholic faith in public by praying the rosary in several towns and cities around the island. The men’s public rosary started last month in Derry, Northern Ireland, with organizers setting out to honor Our Lady by completing the Five First Saturday devotions in reparation for abortion and asking God to end the growing COVID tyranny seen throughout Ireland. Speaking to LifeSiteNews, Patrick McCrystal of Human Life International said men will pray in the five main towns of Northern Ireland in the coming months, and he expects towns...

One should see both articles for the picture. Sep 23, 2021: 99.7% of Waterford adults fully vaccinated against Covid-19Summary: celebration and usual claims that it is mostly unvaccinated that get covid now. Oct 15, 2021: Waterford City South has highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in IrelandWaterford City South currently has the highest incidence rate of Covid-19 in Ireland, according to the latest figures. The number of cases in the local electoral area between September 28th and October 11th was 281. The incidence rate per 100,000 people in the area is currently 1,250 - three times the national average, and equating...

Waterford, once the crown jewel of Ireland’s Vaccination program, now has the highest rate of infection in the country. For the first time since March, the number of patients in hospital with Covid in Ireland is over 400. This in a country where 92% of adults have been Vaccinated against the CCP Virus. It’s worse for County Waterford where almost every single person over the age of 18 has been double jabbed and yet case numbers are surging with more than 700 new cases documented in the last 2 weeks. The number of vaccinated patients in ICU now is almost...

Waterford is the oldest and the fifth most populous city in the Republic of Ireland. It also happens to be the epicenter of the Covid-19 spike in the nation with by far the highest percentage of new cases being reported in the last two weeks. Here are the numbers from Government of Ireland Covid-19 Data Hub created with Datawrapper:Based on what we’ve been told by Anthony Fauci et al, we can assume that the citizens of the city haven’t fully embraced the Covid-19 vaccines. After all, we’re constantly told that if we can get the vast majority of the population...

Irish Quandary: Who to Blame When Everyone’s Vaxxed? No one seems curious about the prevalence of the disease in an almost fully vaccinated population.During his Thursday town hall meeting with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, President Joe Biden blithely dismissed the most basic assertion of those who have chosen to resist a COVID-19 vaccination. “Freedom? I have the freedom to kill you with my COVID,” scoffed Biden. “No, I mean come on — freedom.”In his literally mindless way, Biden said out loud what health officials everywhere have been implying since the vaccines became widely available. Those who are not vaccinated are killing...

LGBT-friendly Irish bishop gives talk to dissident ‘Catholic’ group pushing for women priests‘We Are Church Ireland’ continue to call for the ordination of women priests, a heretical position at odds with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.(LifeSiteNews) — An Irish bishop who previously described a ban on same-sex marriage blessings as “hurtful” has told the dissident “We Are Church Ireland” group that the “door isn’t closed” on the question of married priests.“We Are Church Ireland” rejects magisterial teaching on the male-only priesthood, sodomy, abortion, divorce and the denial of Holy Communion to those in adulterous relationships.Bishop Paul Dempsey, the youngest...

One of the pro-LGBT activists quipped ‘Hail Satan,’ while others blew rape alarms in the ears of those praying.DUBLIN, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) — As Irish Catholics took to the streets once more to pray the rosary in reparation for a pro-homosexual “Pride” parade, they faced constant heckling and abusive language from the pro-LGBT crowd, including a shouted of “Hail Satan.” The Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISFCC) took part in a public rosary rally in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, organized by local activist Gerry McGeough, to make reparation for the pro-LGBT “Pride” parade taking place that day in the town, September 25....

Northern Ireland is continuing to push back against the British government’s attempted expansion of abortion in the country. Society for the Protection of Unborn Children attorney John Larkin QC stated directly that Northern Ireland has no obligation to comply with the Secretary of State’s edicts directing the country to provide abortions. According to News Letter, he argued that “the Minister of the Crown cannot […] boss people about unless the law gives them power to do it, and requires people to act in accordance with his edicts. It doesn’t. There is simply no duty to comply with these, and that...

Paddy Moloney, a co-founder of the Irish folk band The Chieftains, died today. He was 83 years old. The news was announced by the Irish Traditional Music Archive. No cause of death was given. Moloney was a hugely important fixture in the Irish folk music scene. For more than 50 years, Moloney led The Chieftains around the world, popularizing traditional Irish music. The band also collaborated with countless artists and groups from outside of the folk-music world, including Mick Jagger, Roger Daltrey, Emmylou Harris, and Luciano Pavarotti. Their last show was an early St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Philadelphia, Pa.,...

The UK government always intended to “ditch” the Northern Ireland protocol, Boris Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings has claimed. In a string of tweets, Cummings said the flawed Brexit deal had been a way to get out of the electoral doldrums and “whack [Jeremy] Corbyn”, and “of course” the government should be allowed to “sometimes break deals… like every other state does”. His remarks have caused alarm in Dublin, where the former taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who negotiated the Northern Ireland protocol with Johnson at a meeting in Wirral in October 2019, said that, if true, they showed the government could...

Irish author Sally Rooney is at the centre of a controversy after refusing to allow her new book to be translated into Hebrew by an Israeli company. The acclaimed writer said it was in support of calls to boycott Israel over its policies towards the Palestinians. She said it would "be an honour" to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated into Hebrew by a company which shared her political position. A senior Israeli minister said such boycotts were a form of anti-Semitism.

London (CNN Business)A group of 136 countries have agreed to a global treaty that would tax large multinationals at a minimum rate of 15% and require companies to pay taxes in the countries where they do business. Estonia, Hungary and -- most notably -- Ireland joined the agreement Thursday. It is now supported by all nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G20. The countries that signed on to the international treaty represent more than 90% of global GDP. Four countries that participated in the talks -- Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- have not...

The Church of Ireland is to complete its divestment from companies that extract fossil fuels by the end of this year. Companies where more than 10 percent of turnover is derived from fossil fuel extraction will be excluded from investments made by the Representative Church Body (RCB). […] The Church of Ireland said through its climate change policy, the RCB seeks to mitigate and lower the climate change impact within its investment portfolios and “has taken several steps in this regard over the past number of years”. This includes collaborative engagement, investments in wind and solar energy and forestry, the...

I look for you in the garden, But its your soul I seek, To find my heart inside yours hidden safe and deep, So warm, pure and true of virtue and fire, Rising up in you with love for others to inspire, A giving out of heart, An eternal spark, An ember of my love, Warming my beloved, So take the warmth I give, To others so they can live, With me inside as you, This is what I desire you to do, Be the bearer of my love, My pure and holy dove,

Minister for the Environment, Climate Action and Communications Eamon Ryan has said that the electricity supply is “tight” and that the Government cannot be absolutely certain that no power outages will occur this winter. Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Minister Ryan said that subsequent winters will also be difficult, but added “we will manage it”. […] Minister Ryan said “we can’t have the lights going out” and it would be necessary to use Moneypoint and other older plants for backup power when the wind is not blowing. He said the running of fossil fuel power plants as backup was always...