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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 […]
A group of Irish citizens who arrived in Malta for their holidays have been forced to enter Mandatory Hotel Quarantine after their HSE-issued vaccine certs were rejected. Many Irish travellers who were fully vaccinated had not yet received their digital covid certificates in the post. However, Junior Green Party Minister Ossian Smyth, who is responsible […]
The Leas Ceann Chomarile, Catherine Connolly TD, has said that the government’s handling of vaccine certs has made her “lose all trust in the democratic system.” The remarks were directed at Health Minister Stephen Donnelly this week during a debate on the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021, where Connolly slammed the Minister’s failure to carry […]
Jerry “Golfgate” Buttimer is the latest government politician to be caught rapid after feigning outrage at lockdown comparisons to apartheid and segregation, while previously making those comparisons himself. They just never learn, do they? The controversy began after Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh expressed her view that the domestic vaccine passport law was discriminatory, divisive, […]
Michael Healy-Rae has said that many TDs are opposed to the opening of economic sectors because they have “anti-business” attitudes stemming from personal “laziness.” The remarks were made during a Dáil debate on the vaccine passport bill. https://twitter.com/Ben_Scallan/status/1415963295601856512 “We should allow for people’s judgement to operate in their premises in their own way, but again […]
Here is the full list of how TDs voted on the domestic vaccine passport bill last night, broken down by constituency. The Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021, which pertains to vaccine passports needed for indoor dining, ultimately passed in the Dáil last night by 74 votes to 68, despite large protests outside the Convention […]
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 […]
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