There are many, many legitimate questions which ought to be asked of the vaccine manufacturers.
The problem – and let’s speak this plainly – is that establishment Ireland, or what passes for it, is now a jabbering, simpering, clueless wreck.
This is the thing about rights. Courts, ultimately, decide how far, or how little, they range.
And indeed, people who would turn their faces away aghast from such rhetoric, coming from an angry truck driver with a megaphone, will instead nod soberly when it comes from a genteel columnist
In Ireland, the media’s job, very often, is to hide the key facts of a story. Rathkeale, this week, is exhibit A.
Think of the facemasks not as a tool to prevent disease, but the human version of the dog’s electric shock collar
Perhaps, in a tolerant society, we might tolerate the fact that from time to time, people will get it wrong, and say silly things. Is that too much to ask?
I suspect you probably won’t read about this particular use of taxpayer money anywhere else.
Whatever the facts around Climate Change, journalists who take money to promote the Government’s views are not journalists
But is it a good idea, or, more importantly, an appropriate use of Government power?
Wake me up when we have some real politics, instead of this farce.
If a professional sportswoman can’t be told that she is not in the right shape to compete, without blaming her coach for “shaming” her, she should probably find a new job.