“If we don’t do it now…when will we ever do it?”
Spain’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the strict home confinement measures imposed during a national state of emergency dealing with the first wave of Covid-19 infections in March 2020 were unconstitutional. The ruling may result in the cancellation of fines issued for breaching any of the lockdown restrictions now deemed unlawful. The strict measures introduced […]
An Irish ice hockey player, who is a member of the National Team, says he has resigned in protest at the rollout of so-called vaccine passports saying he “can no longer represent a country that has approved of the discrimination and segregation between vaccinated people and unvaccinated people.” Niall McEvoy has represented Ireland for the […]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has now acknowledged that a prior push to dismiss the possibility that the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from a lab in China had been “premature”. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus, which has caused […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]
An editor with the British Medical Journal, one of the world’s most respected peer-reviewed publications, has co-signed an article saying that the evidence shows the risks to children from Covid-19 vaccines outweigh the benefits, including any benefits regarding reducing infection for adults. “There is no need to rush to vaccinate children against covid-19—the vast majority […]
A huge increase has been recorded in the number of arrests of foreign criminal suspects living in the country since Ireland joined a EU-wide system which shares police information earlier this year. The Irish Times reports that “86 arrests have been made for the purpose of extradition since the beginning of March” after Ireland signed […]
No mandatory vaccine passports protest in Phoenix Park, Dublin, 15 July 2021 Photo credit: Krzysztof M
Nurses and midwives have said they are appalled at being told they must “respect” abortion in updated guidelines from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. The Board has published an updated edition of its Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (the Code) to “embrace” some recent legislative changes […]
Phoenix Park protest.
Public anger.
Tech giant, YouTube, has been fined more than $100,000 by a German court over the removal of a video showing a protest against COVID-19 restrictions. The German paper Welt am Sonntag said the Higher Regional Court of Dresden ordered YouTubetp pay the hefty fine last week, with the court ruling that the platform was given the […]