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In March of 2021, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told us confidently that vaccines were “our way out” of the pandemic. In fairness, he didn’t specify how many doses it would take to get there. And even now, we still don’t know. As reported in Newstalk today: “Booster certs will eventually be needed to access bars and […]
You know, if you want to convince people to do something for you, it’s typically a bad idea to insult them, intentionally go out of your way to infuriate them, and figuratively tell them to kiss your ass. Apparently French President Emmanuel Macron missed that tip in media training. With the French presidential election just […]
Hold on now; I know you’re planning a party with friends, but before you reach for that alcoholic beverage, isn’t there someone you forgot to ask first? Namely, Micheál Martin? Where is your permission slip, boyo? If you’ve tried to buy drink at all in the last few days, you probably will have noticed the […]
No matter what’s happening as regards Covid in Ireland, the government has one answer and one answer alone: Panic. When deaths are up even slightly, they panic. When hospitalisations are up even slightly, they panic. When deaths and hospitalisations are down, they prepare for an imagined incoming new wave (which may or may not come […]
One has to ask – if scenes of vicious police violence towards unarmed protesters had been witnessed at, say, a Black Lives Matter event, would we ever hear the end of it? Would it not roundly be condemned by every media outlet and politician in the Western world as a heinous breach of human rights, […]
Friendly fire.
The vice-president of the European Central Bank has said that the record levels of inflation that the Euro is currently experiencing are “not as temporary” as previously believed. Luis de Guindos, who was previously Spain’s economy Minister, has said that the inflation Europe’s currency is feeling may last longer than the ECB had expected. Eurozone […]
Ex-UK Prime Minister and former Labour leader Tony Blair has said that anyone who is willingly unvaccinated at this point is “an idiot.” “Frankly, if you’re not vaccinated at the moment, and you’re eligible, and you’ve got no health reason for not being vaccinated, you’re not just irresponsible – you’re an idiot,” he said. Tony […]
“Wokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal,” Elon Musk said earlier this week. Musk – a South African entrepreneur who is currently the world’s richest man – made the remarks during an interview with the conservative satirical news website, Babylon Bee, calling wokeness a kind of “mind virus” that is “destructive.” https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1473475401691377667 “Generally, I think […]
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
Neuroscientist Professor Tomás Ryan of ISAG fame wrote an Irish Times article over the weekend urging a campaign with one simple goal: The total global “elimination” of Covid-19. In his own words, the article reads: “Looking to the long term, there seems to be only two endgames. Either we accept Covid as endemic, which could […]
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
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