Rita O’Reilly

Ireland 'lagging' on home heating retrofit targets - ESRI A new report from the Economic and Social Research Institute has found that Ireland is significantly behind, and unlikely to meet, the targets set out in the Climate Action Plan for decarbonising resi...

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

Govt orders HSE reports from RTÉ Investigates series The Government has ordered reports from the HSE on each of the individual case studies featured in the recent RTÉ Investigates' series on psychiatric care.

www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

How Irish electronic components are ending up in Russian attack drones bombarding Ukraine An investigation conducted by The Irish Times and other media shows parts manufactured by Taoglas and TE Connectivity are being used in Geran-2 drones

How Irish electronic components are ending up in Russian attack drones bombarding Ukraine

Video: Watch: Gisèle Pelicot on the Rape Trial That Shocked the World In her first interview with an American media outlet, Gisèle Pelicot opened up about surviving years of secret abuse and deciding to go public with her story.

Watch: Gisèle Pelicot on the Rape Trial That Shocked the World www.nytimes.com/video/podcas...

The UK High Court ruled that proscribing Palestine Action was unlawful and disproportionate. The ban remains in place pending an expected appeal

UK's High Court rules that the government's decision to designate Palestine Action as a terror group was unlawful. https://cnn.it/4rcZq2f

A Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump was convicted of sexually abusing children A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

RTÉ Investigates: The Psychiatric Care Scandal
by reporter Conor Ryan and producer/director Frank Shouldice, next on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player, 21:35

Family calls for release of report into Cloverhill Prison death More than five years after a psychiatric patient died in Cloverhill Prison, his family says a key report remains unreleased.

The family of a psychiatric patient who died in Cloverhill Prison more than five years ago have called for the immediate release of a report into the circumstances of his death.

Surge in actively psychotic patients held in prisons, RTÉ finds A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.

A rapid rise in numbers of acutely psychotic people in prison is deepening a crisis in psychiatric care, RTÉ Investigates finds.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

It could be a while before normal service resumes at Salthill Co Dublin.
Rail services are currently suspended.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X The Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that a search was underway at the French office of Elon Musk's social media network X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025.

Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit searches French office of Musk's X - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Ukrainian cities struck by Russia in fresh strikes Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new ⁠blows to energy infrastructure.

Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital of Kyiv, its second largest city of Kharkiv and other centres early today, officials said, triggering fires and dealing new ⁠blows to energy infrastructure

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing "further embarrassment" to party as result of Epstein links.

Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?

Elon Musk last year: "Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED"

Musk to Epstein emails:
• “What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”
• "I really want to hit the party scene"
• "Is there a good time to visit?

Story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct: "This has to stop" "Many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault," the Obamas wrote in a statement following the ICE shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Barack and Michelle Obama blast Trump and ICE conduct: "This has to stop"

FOLLOWING THE NEWS OF YET ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS, A CITY THAT HAS BEEN ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICES, NBA PLAYERS CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT. NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE MUST DEFEND THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE IN MINNESOTA PROTESTING AND RISKING THEIR LIVES TO DEMAND JUSTICE. THE FRATERNITY OF NBA PLAYERS, LIKE THE UNITED STATES ITSELF, IS A COMMUNITY ENRICHED BY ITS GLOBAL CITIZENS, AND WE REFUSE TO LET THE FLAMES OF DIVISION THREATEN THE CIVIL LIBERTIES THAT ARE MEANT TO PROTECT US ALL. THE NBPA AND ITS MEMBERS EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF ALEX PRETTI AND RENEE GOOD, JUST AS OUR THOUGHTS REMAIN FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. NBPA

The National Basketball Players Association has released a statement on the killings in Minneapolis:

“Following the news of yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a city that has been on the forefront of fight against injustices, NBA players can no longer remain silent”

Pam Bondi Offers to Pull ICE Out of Minneapolis if Voter Files Handed Over

Attorney General Pam Bondi said that ICE could be pulled out of Minneapolis if demands are met, in a letter to Governor Tim Walz.

Man shot dead in Minneapolis was veteran's hospital nurse The US citizen shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a local veterans' hospital who "wanted to make a difference in this world," family members said.

The US citizen shot dead by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a local veterans' hospital who "wanted to make a difference in this world," family members said.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"