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The official Dail transcript records Ms Chambers as having said: "Abortion regret is made up and it does not exist" though video from Thursday night clearly shows that she said: "Abortion regret is a makey-uppy thing. It doesn't exist." Three issues of concern are, firstly, where the ‘Official’ record, the Transcript is INCORRECT! It is a modified, edited version of what was Actually said. It proves a transcriber (or is there a subsequent upstream editor of the data?) interpreting and perverting reality... If this is possible as has happened in this case, with such ease and unconcern, what else has been retrospectively modified, erased, edited in all other ‘Official’ records of Oireachtas since the State was founded? Why do we wonder about the abundance of ‘Fake News’ when we can’t even retain the integrity of our own ‘Official’ records? The second point is the total dismissal of the Reality of abortion regret. Somehow LGBT people or illegal

At a packed AGM which proved the old Renua was underselling itself, the new Renua finally confounded its mainstream critics and found a focus and identity. The Irish Identity and the Irish People - a niche that should be the mainstream, which could drive Renua into the limelight! At the AGM held in the Maldron Hotel, Renua discovered that the addition of "Nation State" to its "Six Pillars" in their constitution  was more popular than they expected, as many had to crowd standing into the back of the room. This change to their steering document was accompanied by the announcement of 20 Candidates for the Local Elections in May 2019, with many more to come as they continue their recruitment drive. They had already previously announced an MEP candidate. Leader John Leahy asked members present to get people interested in running in local elections to contact them. Members also voted on a new Chairman and Treasurer with the newly elected Chairperson Neil O Mahony f

IRELAND’s “slavish” devotion to their "sacred cow", the European Union, is not only essentially distracting Ireland from the inherent danger of remaining tethered to a collapsing Brussels, but also from the importance of continuing good relations with Britain after BRexit, a former diplomat has warned. After all UK and Ireland had good relations prior to the EU and UK is Ireland's largest trading partner.

Writing for London-based think tank Politea, Dr Ray Bassett, warned Dublin the entire future of the bloc was “in doubt” and urged Irish leaders to put Ireland’s interests first. Concerns about the future of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have arguably been made into the biggest headache for BRexit negotiators, with both sides keen to avoid the re-imposition of a hard border which would be seen as a threat to the 1999’s landmark Good Friday Agreement. However the EU insensitively insisted on using it as a bargaining chip to