An eighteen-year wait for trans healthcare with more than 2,500 on waiting list
https://the-beacon.ie/2026/02/17/an-eighteen-year-wait-for-trans-healthcare-with-more-than-2500-on-waiting-list/
Published: February 17, 2026 08:00
In last year’s article the waiting list for the self-named National Gender Service (NGS) was over 2,000 people and an estimated wait time at almost 13 years for new referrals. My Freedom of Information (FoI) request for the latest numbers has been kindly…
Lies, damned lies and reality TV
https://the-beacon.ie/2025/10/27/lies-damned-lies-and-reality-tv/
Published: October 27, 2025 22:00
Let’s say you agree to take part in reality TV (it’s not an experience I highly recommend), you’ll be asked to sign a contract forbidding any public statement about what happened during the show. You might want to say all kinds of things about that show.…
The GAA’s Game Changer is just more of the same
https://the-beacon.ie/2025/10/09/the-gaas-game-changer-is-just-more-of-the-same/
Published: October 9, 2025 10:45
If you noticed the GAA’s Gamechanger campaign at all you may well have assumed that the organisation had chosen to invest some of their considerable income — €132.9 million in 2024 — in Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (DSGBV) awareness…
Jews for Palestine-Ireland: ‘Never again is now’
https://the-beacon.ie/2025/01/29/jews-for-palestine-ireland-never-again-is-now/
Published: January 29, 2025 16:02
The following letter was sent to the Irish Times on 16 January. The paper declined to print it. We have reproduced it below with permission from Jews for Palestine-Ireland. Sir, We agree with Oliver Sears of Holocaust Awareness Ireland that Holocaust…