The Beacon

09/10/2025

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 campaigns. Someone more cynical might assume that this was a neat piece of PR for the GAA given its male-oriented focus and machismo....

The GAA's Game Changer programme claims to be aimed at tackling domestic violence but instead it appears to target s*x workers.

29/01/2025

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 Memorial Day is a "sombre, precious and inviolable" commemoration (IT 15.1.25 Holocaust Memorial Organisers Defend the Decision to invite Michael D Higgins to speak)....

Jews for Palestine-Ireland declare that the history of Jewish suffering means they have an obligation to speak out against Israel's war.

28/01/2025

Over 2,000 people waiting for trans healthcare in Ireland

The waiting list for trans healthcare in Ireland has once again grown, showing that the current National Gender Service is inadequate.

18/12/2024

THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IS NOT THE JEWISH EMBASSY. IT IS THE EMBASSY OF A STATE COMMITTING GENOCIDE. Jews for Palestine – Ireland welcomes the closure of the Israeli embassy in Dublin. We call on the Irish government to take meaningful action to sanction Israel, a hostile government that has killed over 45,000 people in Gaza, has attacked UNIFIL peacekeepers and is now bombing Syria while the world looks on....

THE ISRAELI EMBASSY IS NOT THE JEWISH EMBASSY. IT IS THE EMBASSY OF A STATE COMMITTING GENOCIDE. Jews for Palestine – Ireland welcomes the closure

23/06/2024

How dehumanising language works: Tropes and storylines

Language is powerful in the wrong hands, especially when used as part of a process of dehumanising people.

08/02/2024

National Gender Service waiting list surpasses a decade

The waiting list at the National Gender service continues to grow as trans people now wait for over a decade for specialised care.

20/12/2023

Last month, I shared examples of letters that the National Gender Service (NGS) has been sending to GPs, advising them not to provide their trans patients with blood tests to monitor their hormones. It argued this course of action on the basis that there are no risks associated with blood hormone concentrations. This was contradicted by the NGS's own internal policies, before even considering the need to ensure optimal dosing, effectiveness following the instructions of a patient's own medical team, or international best practice guidelines....

The National Gender Service claims that GenderGP is breaking Irish Medical Council guidelines. Is it? In short, no.

10/12/2023

Does the National Gender Service understand its medications?

The National Gender Service makes many claims about the medication it recommends to trans people. But are these the correct recommendations?

17/11/2023

Does the National Gender Service really believe that hormone blood tests don't indicate risk?

The National Gender Service (NGS) says one thing and does another, yet again potentially harming innocent trans people.

16/11/2023

Irland: »Jews for Palestine« attackieren deutsche Bundesregierung wegen Israel-Politik • Foto: privat

14/11/2023

Irish Jews for Palestine lock themselves to German embassy

To protest ongoing German support for war crimes in Gaza, members of Jews for Palestine staged a protested outside the German embassy.

21/02/2023

Violence against LGBTQIA+ people reaches the highest level in a decade

ILGA-Europe has published a new report which details that violence directed at LGBTQIA+ people is at the highest level in a decade