This is one of those figures that sounds shocking, but is actually objectively good news: #LATEST HSE tells @VirginMediaNews that 20% of Ireland’s new confirmed cases are people who are fully vaccinated. “Vaccinated people are reporting very mild illness” – @NiamhOBeirne @VirginMediaNews #Covid19Ireland — Zara King (@ZaraKing) August 9, 2021 According to the most recent […]
Here it is folks: The perfect story to determine whether you really care about privacy and freedoms and the danger of big corporate power, or whether you are just fine with companies monitoring our every move, so long as it targets people we don’t like: Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of […]
Oh well.
Stunning figures here, courtesy of the Iona Institute, which has been commissioning regular polling on Mass attendance throughout the pandemic: A new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute shows that 46pc of Catholics who were going to Mass on a regular basis before the pandemic began last year have returned to Mass since […]
Nobody told Micheál Martin that Katherine Zappone was to get the big job in New York until it arrived at Cabinet, in the form of a behind the scenes agreement amongst Fine Gael Ministers, and the hapless Taoiseach was bounced into going along with it. In the immediate aftermath, he had the look of a […]
One of the most baffling things about the Katherine Zappone cock-up (let’s call it what it is) is that it ever got this far. Politicians spend millions of our euros every year on a veritable army of special advisors, many of them ex-journalists, precisely so that they can be advised how to avoid banana skins […]
Politicians and Governments have had it in for cash for quite a while, for a whole range of reasons, but one above all others: It is, by and large, untraceable. This makes it perfect if you want to hide your wealth from the Government, or engage in crime, or avoid taxes like VAT, or do […]
If you go on to the HSE’s information page about abortion services in Ireland, and into the section advising people about what to expect after an abortion, one of the first lines you will read advises you that “around 2 or 3 out of every 100 people who have an abortion at less than 9 […]
As always, it is useful to begin these stories by noting what Michael Osterholm, senior Covid advisor to President Biden, and expert in infectious diseases, is not saying in the clip below. He is not saying that all facemasks are useless. Nor is he saying that we should all stop wearing them. What he is […]
The American Medical Association is not some sort of pound-shop outfit. If you have never heard of it, then know this: It is the largest association of doctors and medical practitioners in the United States. It has almost a quarter of a million members, and annual revenue of about $350million. For decades, it has been […]
This is one of those stories that functions as an almost perfect Rorschach test: If you side with Donnelly here, chances are you’re not a fan of the church and would cheer almost anything said about them. Because there is literally no other reason to indulge this nonsense: “When you’re dealing with a deadly virus, […]
The Pandemic has been very bad news for some people – restaurateurs, publicans, students, anybody working part time in hospitality, and so on, but it has been absolutely superb news for some others. Mainly, of course, the media: Our subscriber numbers jumped by nearly 50 per cent last year to 126,000 – a great performance, […]