It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]
Nobody should predict what the US Supreme Court will, or will not do, as the Casey decision in 1992 demonstrates.
If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
Nobody forced the Irish Government to announce that it was considering subsidising antigen tests.
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
It is important to remember that many people have incentives to make Omnicron a massive story.
it’s a reasonable assumption, at this point, that these vaccines will amount to a transitory, stop-gap solution