THE past few weeks in this wonderful place we call home have been incredibly difficult for various reasons. The disappearance and then discovery of Noah Donohoe was an emotional trauma which at its heart sees a devastated mother and family but extends to a population in grief. The passing and funeral of Bobby Storey has […]
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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: Permission to take a break is a gift to yourself
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Health Committee Report: Unionist bid to sanction members who attended Bobby Storey funeral
Health Committee 09 July 2020 In a week which has concentrated on one funeral, Boris suggested that care homes had not followed ‘procedures’ and Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health in England, suggested that the decision to transfer patients from hospital to care homes had been a clinical decision without test results. This […]
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TUAIRIM: Forbairt tithíochta i Ráth Chairn dochrach don Ghaeltacht
“I recommend that permission for the proposed development be refused.” Sin a scríobh cigire de chuid an Bhoird Pleanála ina thuarascáil i mí na Bealtaine faoin phlean 28 dteach agus teach aíochta a thógáil i sráidbhaile beag Ráth Chairn i nGaeltacht na Mí. Ach rinne an Bord Pleanála neamhaird de mholadh a gcigire féin. Thug […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Coalition government’s new politics is just old politics dressed up in media spin
ON Tuesday republicans buried our friend and comrade Bobby Storey. His death, after a long battle with illness, has left a void in all our lives. Big Bob was a larger than life character. For almost 50 years he was tireless in pursuit of Ireland’s long struggle for freedom. I was honoured and privileged to […]
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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: RTÉ aping its BBC betters shows how far we have yet to travel
I READ a newspaper column by Fintan O’Toole. In it he argued that the handling of the pandemic by the southern state had been a turning point. “If Covid-19 had struck the world even five years ago, one of the first questions on the minds of Irish officials would have been: what is Britain doing?” […]
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Happy 90th birthday to the Donegal man whose medical discovery saved millions of lives
SOME things happen by chance. In 1985, two men, one from Japan and the other from Donegal, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of the anti-parasite drug ivermectin. That was in 1978, but it was a few years later before the two men met. Nobel laureate William Cecil Campbell (known as […]
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