HAVING carried out a protest at the weekend over hospital overcrowding, the prospect of heading straight back out again to protest the appalling and potentially fatal state of child and adolescent mental health services in the country is proving a bridge too far for Irish people. However, seasoned protesters in France have offered to protest… Read more »
IT’S BEEN a tense, silent few days in the Élysée Palace as French President Emmanuel Macron walks on eggshells around his wife Brigitte Macron after announcing his intention to raise the retirement age. “I’ll just be keeping the head low, the Palace is big enough in fairness, I’ll probably use one of the spare wings… Read more »
CURRENT Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has strongly hinted that the next General Election will be held in Autumn of 2024; which gives the nation just over a year to do the following: – Grease up every nearby lamppost, electricity poll and 5G mast to avoid any posters being erected in your area. – Take a look… Read more »
WITH the government unveiling a €2.5bn tax-payer funded scheme to repair defects in Celtic Tiger era apartments, ‘building defective apartments’ has officially been added to the list of things you can do and get away with scot free for. Building apartments which are death and debt traps joins facilitating the rape of children and hiding… Read more »
AS Paschal Donohue becomes the latest TD to suffer temporary memory loss resulting in the failure to declare donations, WWN looks at why this kind of thing keeps happening and why politicians seem to make no error when it comes to claiming annual expenses. 1) Being a TD is hard A lot of people say… Read more »
THE MINISTER with responsibility for implementing new laws relating to the Standards in Public Office (SIPO) has recused himself from the responsibility after his standards while in public office have been called into question. Paschal Donohoe’s failure to declare an election donation of €1100 from a man he subsequently placed on a shortlist to head… Read more »
FRONT and centre at recent anti-immigrant protests, the National Party along with other far-right groups appear to a growing influence in Irish society. Here’s everything you need to know about the National Party: Untreated mental illness remains a huge problem in Ireland. Founded in 2016, the party retains the cognitive ability of a 7-year-old. You… Read more »
FINE GAEL’s Damien English has resigned as junior minister after The Ditch revealed he lied about home ownership in a declaration to Meath County Council to secure planning permission on a new home. Apologising now that he’s been caught red-handed years later English admitted it was wrong of him to do so, deeming his conduct… Read more »
INITIALLY delighting in the fact Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald had been excluded from talks on the NI Protocol by the British government, it is now dawning on the DUP the discussions aimed on breaking the impasse are being led by the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly. “We put the ‘foreign’ thing down to… Read more »
THE MINISTER for Housing has rejected, in the strongest terms, assertions that he is in fact a nincompoop WWN can reveal. Presented with the evidence in the form of his entire time in charge of the housing brief, Fianna Fáil’s Darragh O’Brien contested the nincompooped nature of policies which at the time of implementing were… Read more »