Speaking to supporters afterwards in the Round Hall of the Four Courts, Mr Waters said old people were being left to die in care homes around the country because of the Minister for Health’s lockdown, and that they would go to European courts if necessary to “overturn this appalling legislation.”
It has come to light that seven residents of a nursing home in in Navan have lost their lives after contracting Covid-19. The Milbury Nursing Home had its first case just a month ago. Local TD Peadar Tóibín said he extended “deepest sympathies go to the family and friends of all those who have lost […]
Social media giant, Facebook, is under fire again for using biased ‘fact-checkers’ to label reporting as ‘fake news’. The New York Post, one of the most long-established newspapers in the U.S., hit back at Facebook this week saying that the platform’s “‘fact-checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story”. As the newspaper explained: […]
A Spanish fishing trawler was prevented from landing a catching in Dingle during the night after local fishermen mounted a blockade at the port. Up to 40 fisherman lay on the ground to block a truck from the Spanish trawler from collecting the fish. The fishermen say they acted to protect the town from the […]
An eminent doctor appointed by Simon Harris to the Medical Council two years ago has resigned in protest at the government’s alleged “blunder” in regard to nursing homes. Dr Marcus de Brun, who runs the Rush Family Practice in Co Dublin, also holds a degree in Microbiology from Trinity College Dublin. His letter of resignation accused the […]
A Meath West TD says that flights bringing fruit pickers into Ireland should be stopped until the Covid-19 crisis ends. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said he had submitted questions to the Minister for Enterprise in relation to the arrival of large amounts of agricultural workers to Ireland. He called on the government to end these […]
The fresh produce company Keelings has been at the centre of controversy on social media for more than 24 hours after it emerged that 189 fruit pickers from Bulgaria had arrived on a Ryanair flight yesterday chartered by the company. https://twitter.com/FF_Grassroots/status/1251052199276355584 Keelings said that “a very important part of our workforce for many years has […]
The Minister for Health, Simon Harris, has refused to amend HSE guidelines on ethical decision-making in the Coronavirus pandemic to explicitly include people with disabilities. The guidelines, an Ethical Framework for Decision Making During a Pandemic, say that sometimes critical care may need to be ‘prioritised’, and that “rationing decisions” should “consider which patients are […]
The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has confirmed that almost one-third of nursing homes in Ireland have the Cornavirus, with clusters of Covid-19 now in 155 of the residential care facilities. Professor Jack Lambert, who specialises in infectious diseases at the Mater hospital, has warned that the spread of the virus in nursing homes is “a catastrophe […]
Former journalists John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty have launched judicial review proceedings in the High Court today claiming that aspects of the emergency laws passed since the Covid-19 outbreak are unconstitutional.
With almost half of all deaths associated with Coronavirus now taking place in nursing homes, the Minister for Health, has said that some nursing homes are still without proper personal protective equipment (PPE). Government decisions, including lifting a ban on visits to nursing homes and failing to make care homes a priority for PPE, are now […]
A former Minister of State for Prisons in Britain has said that while he served in government there were “situations of male prisoners self-identifying as females then raping staff in prison”. Former Tory MP, Rory Stewart, made the shocking claim in an interview with GQ magazine. The issue of trans prisoners who are biologically male but […]