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For those of us who have had miscarriages, we expected a baby and we grieved a baby, although those babies were only 13 weeks or 7 weeks. I find it offensive as a woman who’s been in this situation. I don’t want to inform anybody what I’ve done with my fetal remains. I don’t want to inform the Minister, I don’t want it in legislation, and I most certainly don’t want people in this House prescribing what I should do with my used maternity pads, my soiled bed sheets, my bath sheets.
Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell hit out at a proposed amendment which would have forced women to bury or cremate a foetus after terminating their pregnancy.
I’ll tell you what: CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN. You’re a very rude person. The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn’t treat people that way.
CNN reporter Jim Acosta was barred from the White House after a heated exchange with US President Donald Trump – the above quote is Trump’s contribution.
I felt lost and alone and I felt like I failed because I didn’t know how common miscarriages were because we don’t talk about them.
Former US first lady Michelle Obama shared her experience of miscarriage and IVF with ABC News.
Essentially there’s going to be a border down the Irish Sea and no unionist would be able to support that.
DUP leader Arlene Foster has said she will not support British Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to have a Northern Ireland specific backstop.
We don’t earn enough to buy, to be approved for a mortgage and the rents are gone up that high that we can’t rent either so where do we go? What do we do? We’re stuck. And then the stress of trying to get up to go to work everyday and trying to rear your child.
Kelly Priestly on being made homeless when her family had to leave the apartment they had rented in Sandyford for four years.
My priority was always making sure the needs of those women came first and I will never apologise for holding people to account, for asking officials the hard questions and demanding people do better.
Health Minister Simon Harris said he’ll continue to hold people to account, after the former HSE CEO Tony O’Brien called him a weak minister and a “frightened little boy”.
It is not about the symbols one chooses to wear or otherwise, the greatest remembrance of the First World War is to learn its lessons and to honour its dead by striving for peace.
Historian and writer Donal Fallon on remembering the dead of World War I.
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For the spongers….. As if they don’t get enough!!! Maybe try get a job
@Kev Barnes: your a fool. Have you ever spoken to a genuine homeless person. You don’t no peoples life circumstances so don’t judge. Have a bit of compassion, it’s Christmas. This is not about people getting so called free houses, it’s about putting a smile on someone’s face. Crawl back into your hole
@Kev Barnes: most probably do have jobs. They are probably being paid minimum wage by billion euro companies. Working full time at minimum wage gives you around €380 a week. Average place in Dublin is around €1600. Even if both are working they would struggle to cover the rent. So the government step in and supplement this by way of our taxes. But of all the people you are pissed off with it’s the person not earning enough to cover their rent. They are at the mercy of their landlord with severe HAP discrimination. Most of them can’t afford to buy presents in fact most probably struggle to feed their families but I’m glad that the Christmas sprit is alive and well in you.
@Sos: it’s sad how someone can have such harsh views on children living in poverty. It’s not like the child asked to be born without the luxuries these people have.
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: I have actually I was homeless myself at one point but sorted my life out thankfully
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: Whether or not you disagree with his comments, calling somebody a ‘fool’ whilst incorrectly spelling the word ‘You’re’ shows that perhaps he’s not the only ‘fool’.
@Lovely weather: look up the dictionary, I think you will find “fool” is the correct spelling
@Lovely weather: “fool”noun.
a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: nah I expect their parents to get their acts together like most people in society.. My heart goes out to the children that was never my point… Oh and thank you for following my posts
@Ali Ní Dhomhnaill: he said “whilst incorrectly spelling the word “you’re”" not fool…
@Sharon Fernandes: even so the point about the definition whether made intentionally or not would still stand.that is a fool being a person without judgement or sense not a person who makes minor grammatical errors
If they’re anything like Erica Fleming and Co, they’ll laugh at shoebox 2nd hand presents.
If they’re not paying rent, then they are wealthier than the people the chuggers target.
You’re being fooled.
Don’t waste your money on these “charities”, donate to Bóthar or something.
@T Beckett is back: I think ICHH is actually one of the few good charities that has scaled without spending a ton of exec salaries etc. I think all their people are volunteers without pay. I like that they publish full audited accounts rather than ‘annual reports’ with cherry-picked information like most charities too.
One of the only ones I’ve donated to with how bad most Irish charities are with frivilous spending and mismanagement.
@T Beckett is back: I grew up in a shit hole a real bad bad shit hole.My first memory of fear was maybe 10 cops with sub machine guns on the shared balcony trying to get the lads who just robbed a jewellers.I always remembers this. Personally I wouldn’t ever give to Charities as the people who need it don’t get it the people who don’t need it demand it. Your all being taken for a ride. Charity begins at home.
I don’t understood a family being homeless in Dublin.
I commute from the midlands to Dublin for work (can’t afford to live in Dublin) and we(we have a young child) live on one civil service income.
Great idea. Bridges of hope are another group helping the homeless. Every Saturday night in the City Centre giving clothes and food. A Christmas dinner for homeless people and families in emergency accommodation will be held by them on Christmas
Excellent homeless charity!Some schools give out backpacks with essential items also& it’s great to see compassionate people including children.
The way some commentators here,often under pseudonyms, talk about fellow human beings in desperate stressful circumstances is truly disgusting and shameful!
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