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It was not so long ago that the Hyacinth Buckets of this parish would have their teenage school going daughters shod in Dubes. Now it seems that the new social cachet might be provided by a vaccination certificate. For, according to a report this morning in the Irish Times, as far as the promoters of […]
There is certainly an element of “Oh, look over there!” about the mainstream Woodward/Bernstein exposé of people having the craic in the Healy Rae pub in Kilgarvan. And of course, predictably enough, the nodding donkeys have lit upon Danny Healy-Rae as an example of one of the Deplorables intent on killing us all in our […]
It would seem that the lead transgender activist NGO, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI), has found itself in spot of bother. According to a piece in The Burkean based on an internal email sent by the Health Services Executive to TENI CEO Sara Philips on June 11, the HSE said “may have to freeze funding” […]
Perhaps An Taoiseach Micheál Martin now understands what Groucho Marx meant when he said that he would not want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. I am thinking here in the context of a dinner reportedly hosted by for former Minister, now newly appointed Special Envoy for […]
A new investigation has questioned the Covid-19 origin story as it was presented by China and retailed by most of the world’s scientific, media and state authorities. Its publication comes as reports from China point to another apparent wave of infections from the Delta variant. The report released by the ranking Republican member of the […]
One of the metrics that charted the improvement in working people’s lives over the past century or more was the increase in home ownership. From a situation where most people lived in rented or otherwise non private accommodation, home ownership rose steadily in the western democracies to a situation where most people in most countries […]
Yesterday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed all employees regarding the company’s plans to re-open its offices around the world. The email states that all who are working on one of its “campuses” will need to be vaccinated. This will apply immediately to the United States but “will expand to other regions in the coming months.” […]
The introduction of vaccine certification in this country and elsewhere, apart from leading to instinctive revulsion among those not yet inured to greatly increased state curtailments of basic freedoms, has led to comparisons with other systems of control. The requirement for proof of vaccination has been likened to the internal passport system that was in […]
In a surprising development, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has over-ruled objections from China, and has backed a decision to again investigate the possibility that Covid-19 originated in a leak from the Wuhan virology laboratory. The initial finding of a joint investigation by WHO and the Chinese research team was criticised as being inadequate and […]
There is no doubt but that the large protests against the Government’s proposals to pass legislation requiring people to provide proof that they have been vaccinated in order to access some services, caught the establishment by surprise. Some of the biggest crowds of any protest in Covid times turned out at both the Convention Centre […]
Some this week were attempting to perhaps distract attention from what is currently taking place in South Africa with reminders that in July 1984 Dunnes Stores workers in Henry Street, Dublin began a three year long strike in opposition to the stocking of food produce from South Africa. It was indeed a brave stance to […]