Eoin O'Donnell

End of Life Ireland on Tuesday delivered a petition supporting “the right to die with dignity” at Leinster House, with almost 5,000 signatures calling for urgent action on introducing end-of-life legislation to Ireland.
Gino Kenny TD, a long-time advocate for improved end-of-life care who introduced the Dying with Dignity Bill in 2020, said the issue would be the focus of the next special Oireachtas committee.
Although a date has not yet been set for when the committee will convene, he hopes ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is “disappointed” that some of those entitled to the €1,000 Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment for their work during the crisis have still not received their money.
He said “there is an urgency to get this done”, but he pointed out that 123,750 staff in the HSE had received the payment.

Modular housing for 2,000 Ukrainian refugees expected to be ready by the start of next year is now likely to be delayed until the spring of 2023, the Department of Equality and Integration has said.

Newbridge residents will this Saturday protest against the planned construction of 30 modular homes for displaced Ukrainian refugees in the Kildare town. The opposition to the development is rooted largely in the selection of a site near long-established housing estates. Dara Park and Lakeside Park have long been prone to flooding and sewage issues, which locals claim have been ignored by the authorities.

Donning the hijab was not an easy process for Lorraine O’Connor. “To practise being a Muslim at home is easy, to do your five prayers and to live that lifestyle… It’s when you come out of the house that it becomes problematic.”
O’Connor, a Dublin native and mother of four, encountered scepticism and resistance when she converted to Islam in 2005. “There were people who told me to ‘go back to where I came from’, and I say, ‘Where, Coolock?’” she said. “Suddenly that would turn into, ‘You’ve fo...

The volunteers behind the Tidy Town winning committee in Trim, Co Meath have said that “success breeds success” and they plan to invest the winnings in young people, to encourage them to take pride in their community.
Trim in Co Meath was named Ireland’s Tidiest Town for 2022 by Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys.

St John Bosco Youth Centre receives much-needed grant but it may not keep the lights on all winter

Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan warned that short, localised power cuts could be necessary to preserve Irish energy supplies this winter, but emphasised “we don’t expect it”.

A mural on the front of a south Dublin house has been removed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, months after it was ordered to be covered.
The artwork, featuring two boxing ballerinas, was a feature of marketing agency executive Cathy McGovern’s house in Sandycove, and became a popular photo spot for locals and passers-by.

Dublin’s Moore Street markets will be revitalised in the months ahead, with Dublin City Council awarding a public tender for the project to The Temple Bar Company, a non-profit arts and culture organisation.

Academic freedom “is not a privilege, it’s a right”, author and historian Michael Ignatieff told a Dublin audience on Friday at which concern was expressed over limits on free speech on university campuses.

Ireland’s cultural past, present and future were on display across Dublin city streets on Friday for Culture Night. Those out enjoying it could mix guided tours of the city’s most prominent historical and architectural sites with performances from its promising next generation of artists and entertainers.

Subversion has always been at the core of Scream and what makes the franchise special. The original was a sensation not just because it was a snarky, self-aware jab at the genre, but because it succeeded at that while also being a shocking and genuinely scary horror film in its own right.
Somehow, 25 years and four sequels later, 2022’s Scream pulls off the same seemingly impossible trick.

Mike Flanagan’s body of work has quickly become one of the most impressive in horror cinema, every piece of work imbued with its own sense of care and humanity.

Coming from the man who penned some of cinema’s best character studies in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and made a remarkably unsettling directorial comeback with First Reformed, the latest of Paul Schrader’s portraits of damaged, guilt-ridden men comes with the deck stacked in its favor.