The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is not as uniformly committed to civil liberties as its name suggests. For example, it is, actually, firmly in favour of restricting your civil liberty to speak your mind on a range of controversial subjects with so-called “hate speech” laws. It does not think, for example, that somebody should […]
It’s a relatively slow news day, so it might be worthwhile to attempt an explainer at something that’s probably going to feature a lot in American news over the next few months as we barrel towards the quadrennial carnival of stupidity that is an American Presidential Election: OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time! https://t.co/vW19NbYXw6 — […]
Instinctively, there are two things that come to mind with a story like this: First, lock them up and throw away the key. 23 #Buzzards #poisoned with banned neurotoxin #Carbofuran in Co. #Cork. The biggest #WildlifeCrime ever documented in the State. This required a strong and prompt response from the National Parks @josephamadigan @DeptAHG @gardainfo […]
That’s all we need now, our old friends the Banks coming with the begging bowl. Which they will be, if things continue in this vein: Bank of Ireland slid into a loss in the first quarter as the Covid-19 crisis led to the group taking a €266 million loan impairment charge and racking up an additional […]
According to the HSE, all screening for Breast and Cervical Cancers was suspended because of the Coronavirus on March 30th. That’s five weeks ago. In Ireland, there are approximately 3,100 new cases of Breast cancer every single year. Using simple maths, therefore, you would expect there to be something like 62 new cases of Breast […]
On the one hand, this is excellent. As an ex-smoker, I’ve always wanted the excuse to go down and get 20 camel blues from the local shop. And now, for the first time in my life, I can tell my mother I’m doing it for the good of my health: Frontline health workers and patients […]
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, of course. If someone won’t tell the authorities where they’re going to be staying for the next few weeks, the state should flip the table and tell them where they’ll be staying for the next few weeks: Arbour Hill Prison. Or, if you’re not an authoritarian right […]
This film is definitely guilty of railing against the mainstream narrative, much like the viral video of two California doctors calling for the lockdown to be lifted. That too was removed.
Something you don’t see every day: A politician who was explicitly defenestrated by the voters from her seat in the Dáil, back in the chamber just a few weeks later, taking questions like nothing had happened: Here’s something you don’t see every day – a non-TD taking questions in the Dáil. Katherine Zappone presenting this […]
A stunning graph this, courtesy of US company Kinsa: The blue line in that graph represents people with a temperature in New York City. The red line is deaths in New York City. If you take the temperatures, and shift them 18 days to the right, they line up perfectly with the deaths. In other […]
One advantage of President Trump’s tendency to say exactly what he’s thinking, regardless of the consequence, is that sometimes he hits on an important point. He did that yesterday: Trump on why businesses should reopen: "I'm viewing our great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. They're […]
Gavi, the vaccine alliance, founded and funded largely by Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, is an appealing option for Governments looking to make donations, according to a paper published in Global Public Health in 2014, because “it can often produce quantified, politically-appealing, easy-to-explain results within an election cycle, which is appealing to public-sector donors.” […]