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Germany’s finance minister, Olaf Scholz, has described the EU’s vaccine rollout as “really shit” during a recent cabinet meeting. According to German newspaper Bild, Scholz, of Merkel’s Social Democratic Party, took particular aim at EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, saying that he did not want “this shit” to be repeated. German chancellor Angela […]
Newly released government figures indicate that almost 111,000 air passengers entered Ireland through Dublin airport last month, with as many as 61% of these journeys being classed as “non-essential”. Thousands more reportedly entered through Shannon and Cork airports. According to the figures, which come from the Department of Transport, the main bulk of the flights […]
A GP located on the Aran Islands, Co. Glaway, has said that the island’s population – particularly the elderly – should not be expected to travel to the Irish mainland to be vaccinated against covid-19. Dr. Marion Broderick, based in Inis Móir, said that rural GPs “expect the HSE to meet the challenge” of transporting […]
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan has expressed his sympathies and “huge regret” for the women victimised by the CervicalCheck scandal, but stopped short of offering an apology. “I certainly have huge regret about what’s happened to women in this situations,” he said, and that he “of course” had sympathy for those involved. “I do […]
As many as 54% of Irish people have said they have some privacy concerns about the covid tracker app, according to a survey conducted by the PRIVATT research project team. The survey, taken with a sample of 1,000 people across Ireland, reported that 13% of participants are “extremely concerned” about data privacy regarding the HSE’s […]
Last April, in 2020, I wrote an article claiming that the year of the lockdown presented an unprecedented opportunity to finally test the claims of the climate lobby. A year later, the evidence is not looking good for our green friends. In the article, entitled “Covid-19 shutdown could be a chance to test man-made climate […]
Belgian regulators are the latest in a list of European countries who have advised against giving the AstraZenenca vaccine to older people because of insufficient data about its effectiveness. Belgian health minister, Frank Vandenbroucke, said that Belgium’s Superior Health Council had suggested that the jab should be given only to people under 55 for the […]
The cabinet has approved Climate Minister Eamon Ryan’s suggestion to add a provision to the Climate Action Bill which would ban all oil and gas exploration in Ireland, despite the country facing a potential energy crisis post-Brexit. This was a previous commitment from the initial Programme for Government agreement last year, and one of the […]
A total of 1,543 people have reportedly died of covid-19 in Irish nursing homes, with 369 of those having occurred in just the month of January 2021. The rate of outbreaks in nursing homes jumped five fold between mid-December and the end of January, with 4,300 positive cases detected in homes last month, which led […]
After a long string of humiliations regarding vaccine supply, and then political chaos following the erection of a customs border on the island of Ireland, the EU has now desperately attempted to back-track by revoking Article 16. But is this really enough for the bloc to save face? The past few years have not been […]
Many people in Ireland would be shocked to imagine that we have been conditioned by the media into hating a major part of our own culture & nation’s history. But nonetheless, that is exactly what has happened. In the last year or two, it’s become increasingly clear that Irish culture is under attack from the […]
During the covid lockdown, which could be the worst economic crisis in living memory, the geniuses over at Bord Na Mona have forged ahead with shutting down all peat harvesting and production, hanging even more Irish workers out to dry. All to appease a radical green lobby who wouldn’t know common sense if it jumped […]
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