During the worst economic downturn in decades, the government have announced that they will be allocating millions of euros in taxpayer funding for art projects that promote climate change awareness. Money well spent, right? The €2 million “Creative Climate Action Fund” unveiled by Green Party Ministers Eamon Ryan and Catherine Martin is unclear in its […]
Ex-Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone, who was recently appointed to a taxpayer-funded diplomat job, previously asserted that the government should “reach out beyond political insiders” when doling out positions on boards. Zappone, who was given the paid position of free speech ambassador to the UN after she specifically requested the role, has been embroiled in controversy, […]
Immunology Professor Paul Moynagh of Maynooth University has asserted that NPHET’s projected case numbers are “way off,” and said that found them “very surprising.” The remarks were made this week during an interview on Virgin Media’s The Tonight Show with Matt Cooper, during which Prof. Moynagh said he was “very encouraged” by recent Covid-19 data. […]
The chair of NPHET, Dr. Cillian De Gascun, has finally admitted that covid is endemic and will not be eliminated. So what exactly are we continuing with the emergency measures for? As reported by Richard Chambers of Virgin Media news: “@CillianDeGascun says Covid is becoming ‘endemic’. It will not be eliminated. “If you haven’t been […]
Cork Olympic rowers Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy have achieved a historic gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, defeating the German and Italian teams in the race to the finish. The win marks the second medal Ireland has won so far in the Tokyo games, after the Irish women’s four team won bronze. The Irish […]
The Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Dr. Michael Neary, has accused the media of “groupthink,” stating that they often “distort” their coverage “to deprive us of our critical faculties.” Speaking during a homily at a Mass in Westport on Saturday last week, the cleric had a strongly-worded message for Ireland’s press. “The great organs of news […]
The Irish government has appointed Katherine Zappone to a new taxpayer-funded role as free speech ambassador to the UN – despite the fact that Zappone supports social media censorship and has backed so-called “hate speech” laws. They’re clearly just trolling us at this stage. Zappone, who was a TD and government minister, but lost her […]
The Irish women’s rowing quartet have managed to secure the bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics final in a blistering race after passing out the UK team in the last 200 metres. Though the Irish team started off behind, falling to second-last place by the half-way mark only ahead of Poland, rowers Keogh, Lambe, […]
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has admitted that at least some Covid-19 hospital cases were from patients admitted to hospital with totally unrelated conditions, and called for greater accuracy in reporting from NPHET. Up until now, if someone is admitted to hospital for a non-virus related condition – for example, a broken leg – but tests positive […]
Irish mainstream media generally aren’t great at their jobs, but the coverage of the Dublin anti-lockdown protest on Saturday really took the cake. The protest march, which started at the Customs House Quay and finished at Merrion Square outside Leinster House, was organised in solidarity with similar anti-lockdown protest marches happening in cities around the […]
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dublin today to protest the Covid-19 lockdown and the introduction of domestic vaccine certs. The protest march, which started at the Customs House Quay and finished at Merrion Square outside Leinster House, was organised in solidarity with similar anti-lockdown protest marches happening in cities around the world […]
Independent TD Carol Nolan has said she and much of her constituency were highly sceptical of Bord na Mona’s claim that it will create hundreds of jobs in the midlands in coming years. The remarks were made after Bord na Mona CEO Tom Donnellan declared last week that the organisation would be creating around 1,100 […]