Merry Christmas to my family, friends, loved ones and others.
For the last 32 Christmases I have written an original Christmas poem. This year, with the COVID-19 virus, I believe our Dear Lord wants me to give a prayer of healing instead.
Our Dear and Precious Heavenly Father, Master and Maker of the Universe, weâre thankful for the love you have for each and everyone of us, thankful for your most precious gift, Jesus Christ, which is why we celebrate this holiday. For the Holy Spirit, our comforter, and the precious and holy words in the Bible. At the present, we pray that this virus will vanish as soon as possible. My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones because of this virus along with those who have lost loved ones for other reasons.
Offaly residents have lost patience with social housing company
Reporter: );
);
A number of residents in a housing estate in Offaly have lost patience with the social housing company which runs the estate, and a number of local politicians are acting on their behalf.
Desmond Daly told the Tribune that the people who live in Chesterfield Close, Birr have been asking Respond Housing Association to carry out essential works on their dwellings for the last five years but nothing has happened.
Des said there are eight apartments and twenty-five houses in Chesterfield Close. In 2014, he pointed out, Respond installed an Air to Water scheme in the estate. This is a great scheme which gives the houses hot water. At the time, they said they would return in 2015 to draught-proof the doors and windows of the houses and apartments but since then there has been one excuse after another and they haven t returned.
December 14, 2020 1:54 pm
The establishment of a new authority dubbed the National Food Ombudsman was a commitment included under the Programme for Government agreed earlier this year…but what is the progress on this commitment to date?
This was a question put to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue by independent TD Carol Nolan.
In his response, Minister McConalogue said:
“The Programme for Government includes a commitment to ensure fairness, equity and transparency in the food chain by establishing a new authority called the National Food Ombudsman to enforce the Unfair Trading Practices [UTP] Directive, which must be transposed into Irish law by May 1, 2021; and to have a specific role in analysing and reporting on price and market data in Ireland.”
Offaly Pro Life concern at abortion study findings
Reporter:
editor@tullamoretribune.ie );
);
“Sad and very concerning” was the reaction of Offaly Prolife to the recently published University College Cork study of pregnancy termination services in Irish hospitals last year.
The report published in September in the British Journal or Obstetrics and Gynaecology looked at the experience of foetal medicine specialists in providing the new abortion service in the cases of unborn babies with life limiting conditions, representing 5 of the 6 fetal medicine units in Ireland.
Doctors in the UCC study described the life ending procedures carried out in hospitals in Ireland today and talked about the internal conflict they feel and how awful and difficult it can be ending the lives of unborn babies. Talking about the termination of the life of unborn babies with life limiting conditions Foetal Medical Specialists, working in Irish hospitals said: