Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Convention Centre in Dublin to protest a government bill on domestic vaccine passes. According to reports, busloads of protesters were arriving from around the country, and the entire event was organised in under 24 hours. https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1415442014452260865 The crowd chanted phrases such as “Shame on you” and “Freedom”, while posters […]
Michael McNamara TD has asked the Taoiseach at what point civil disobedience becomes legitimate “if democracy is reduced to a tyranny of a narrow majority?” The remarks were made by the independent Clare TD in the Dáil earlier today, with the Deputy slamming the Taoiseach’s repeated curtailment of parliamentary debates. I asked the Taoiseach when […]
Irish liberals have spent the last half decade accusing everyone remotely to the right of Karl Marx of being a “Nazi-Fascist-Far-Right-Uber-Hitler.” But now that label has been levelled at the government and their lockdown, that comparison is too far and simply beyond the pale. The controversy came when Mattie McGrath TD of the Rural Independent […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea of mandatory vaccinations for all citizens, after already making vaccines mandatory for medical personnel. Speaking during a televised address to the French nation this week, Macron cited the Delta variant of Covid-19 as the reason for the move. The French government declared that all medical personnel in […]
As new delays and price hikes to the National Children’s Hospital are announced, it’s worth looking back to 2016 at the broken promises and false assurances of then-Health Minister Leo Varadkar. The hospital, which had been planned since 1993, and was originally to be completed by 2014, only received planning permission from An Bord Pleánala […]
The European Commission has drafted a plan to set a minimum tax rate for aviation fuels across all EU member states, supposedly to combat climate change. However, private jets will be exempt from the tax. To date, aviation fuels have not been saddled with carbon tax under EU law. However, the Commission said that this […]
An estimated 500 people attended an anti-lockdown demonstration in Eyre Square, Galway, in particular to protest against domestic vaccine passports. The protest, which featured live music and which organisers described as “family-friendly,” was said to be a weekly event, taking place every Saturday. Numerous posters criticised the government’s announced policy of bringing in domestic vaccination […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that Ireland should step up its role in the European Union, and supported the EU receiving more money, as well as more powers in the area of health. The remarks were made in an address to Fianna Fáil party members this week. “I believe that the union must be able […]
Michael McNamara TD has slammed the government for failing to significantly expand the country’s ICU capacity in over a year since the pandemic began. The Independent Clare TD made the remarks yesterday in the Dáil during leader’s questions. Michael McNamara on the government's insistence on putting all their eggs in the vaccine basket, while failing […]
A top UK doctor and public health consultant told an RTÉ panel that “we have no evidence of the effectiveness of masks in a community setting,” and said that masks have been rolled out without proper evaluation. Dr. Allyson Pollock, who was formerly the Director of the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, […]
Fianna Fáil senator Robbie Gallagher has accused the government of “cutting off our environmental noses to spite our face” when it comes to climate policy and the banning of peat harvesting. The remarks were made as the senator spoke in the Dáil to Green Party senator Pippa Hackett about Ireland’s native mushroom horticulture industry. “The […]
Mattie McGrath TD has said that vaccine passports will create a “medical apartheid” and turn families against each other in a blistering Dáil speech this week. Speaking during the Order of Business on Tuesday, the Independent Tipperary TD had strong words for the government on the lack of debate regarding the certs. Mattie McGrath demands […]