Some of the outgoing President’s supporters have already taken to calling the various Covid vaccines the “Trump Vaccine”, so happy are they to associate his name with success. In fact, here’s White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany calling it that, just yesterday: "It's the Trump vaccine" pic.twitter.com/MTFff7sQfk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 2, 2020 Regardless […]
Remember when this guy was the super-macho, helicopter flying, hard-man bad boy of the British Royal Family? What happened? “At the end of the day, nature is our life source,” the red-headed royal rebel said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Duke of Sussex also described the […]
A new group made up of various far-left organisations is formally launching today in order to campaign against Ireland’s “far right”. “LeCheile” is made up, as you might guess, of all the usual suspects: The National Women’s Council, The Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, Sinn Fein, The Union of Students in Ireland, Gaza action Ireland, The […]
To be honest, it’s hard to understand where the present panic in some quarters about mandatory vaccinations for Covid 19 has come from. No elected Government, facing into an election at some point in the next five years, is going to want images on the television of policemen dragging four year old girls from their […]
The United Kingdom will become the first country in the world to start a programme of mass coronavirus vaccination, with 800,000 doses to be available from next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced: The Pfizer/BioNTech jab is the fastest vaccine to go from concept to reality, taking only 10 months to follow the same […]
For most of the past two decades, Ireland’s economic strategy has been predicated on keeping corporation tax low, and attracting multinational companies to invest in Ireland. By and large, it’s worked a treat, with some downsides that we’ll come to in a moment. But attracting companies is one thing. Attracting skilled workers to lead and […]
What’s the world coming to when a senior Sinn Fein TD can’t even gloat about the deaths of 18 young men without people getting all upset? Sinn Fein TD Brian Stanley was all in favour of praising the Warrenpoint ambush just two days ago. But now? Mary Lou has had a word, and Brian is…. […]
“The issue of indemnity”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin told reporters last week, “is under discussion”. If you’re not familiar with what he meant by the issue of indemnity, here’s a quick refresher: In August, media outlets reported that vaccine makers were lobbying the EU for an indemnity in return for providing the vaccine: The European pharmaceutical […]
Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú have drawn level with the Labour Party on 4% in the latest Ireland Thinks opinion poll for the Mail on Sunday, which also shows that about 20-25% of Irish voters would not take a Covid vaccine. More on the vaccine below, but first, here are the party figures: 🚨Poll🚨Ireland Thinks / Mail […]
Hoo boy: 🚨POLL🚨 Sunday Business Post / Red C % who believe that the COVID-19 vaccine should be made compulsory for people to take: All Adults: 47% By Age:18-34: 42%35-54: 41%55+: 59% By Party: FG: 61%FF: 59%GP: 43%I/O: 38%SF: 38% 29th November 2020 — Ireland Votes | #Vote2024 (@Ireland_Votes) November 29, 2020 The numbers rise […]
It is not unfair to say about Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle that she is a doctrinaire progressive left winger on almost every issue under the sun. Those of you who followed the abortion referendum, for example, will recall that she was one of the leading campaigners, in the media, for a yes vote. To […]
The Newstalk journalist whose reporting brought a false story about teachers in Presentation College Carlow to national attention has completely removed all reference to the story from her twitter account. Kacey O’Riordan, an IMRO-award winning reporter who works with Newstalk, Today FM, 98FM, and Spin 103.8FM, tweeted on Tuesday that “female students at a Carlow […]