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Sport committee has unanswered questions after ‘bizarre’ FAI hearing

The chairman of the Oireachtas Sport Committee has criticised the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) for a bizarre refusal to answer key questions on safeguarding matters. Labour TD Alan Kelly, who chairs the committee, said the sporting body left several questions unanswered after what several politicians characterised as a frustrating hearing.

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Transphobes Thought This Evidence-Based Medicine Guy Was Their Pal. As Usual, They Were Wrong.

Its a bitter irony that so many of those who will sneer at expertise when the experts are saying something different from what their gut is telling them also have a tendency to make full-on icons out of those who they feel do agree with them. As we saw during COVID, any doctor, regardless of their actual field of expertise, who was willing to tell people that the vaccines were bad, that they didnt need to wear masks, that they could just take Ivermectin or something to that effect, was instantly elevated to celebrity (and a whole lot of money).

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Political Change Across Britain and Ireland: Identities, Institutions and Futures

Dr Paul Gillespie directs the Constitutional Futures after Brexit’ project in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Politics happens not only between Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, but across them as well. There is a British-Irish and an Irish-British politics, along with growing relationships between state and political actors in Scotland, Wales and parts of England with their counterparts in Ireland North and South. Such relations are built into the three-stranded institutions of the . Read more.

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