Yet another study, this one examining the medical records of tens of thousands of people in Israel, has concluded that natural immunity – the protection against reinfection your body develops after you have recovered from Covid-19 – is stronger than the protection gained from a vaccine. The research found in two analyses that never-infected people […]
Her face is not on the cover of a national daily, and her name is not trending on social media.
Despite Taoiseach Michéal Martin urging everyone to move on from the issue, ZapponeGate (along with Cronygate and Merriongate) shows no sign of slowing down on social media. In some ways, it’s like a boil being lanced. The anger and frustration felt at the hypocrisy of the chattering classes in regard to the lockdown is evident. We […]
Tonight RTÉ, the publicly-funded broadcaster, will celebrate the repeal of the right to life of helpless preborn babies and cheer along with the ghouls in Dublin Castle who did conga lines in delight at abortion. That’s not how they’re selling it obviously. A ‘abortion movie night’ might not get as many views. Instead they’re using all […]
Today, RTÉ published an article revealing that almost 5 million babies will be aborted worldwide in the next decade simply because they are girls. Except the publicly-funded broadcaster did everything it could to avoid using the word abortion, since, in the groupthink that prevails in the Irish media, abortion is always a social good. The fact […]
Another study has shown that immunity to Covid in those who have been infected and recovered is long-lasting, “broad and effective” – raising questions about the Irish government’s decision to limit recovery certificates to just six months after being tested positive for the virus. A new paper published as a preprint in the scientific journal Cell found […]
The folks in Cabinet seem puzzled by the public reaction to the news that former Minister Katherine Zappone had asked for, and promptly received, one of those ludicrous positions that are clearly invented to give one of The Deserving Few another job. Zappone had a chat with Minister Simon Coveney, presumably on the special direct-dial red phone reserved for ex-Ministers who want […]
What does it say about a country when its people are forced to go to the High Court to seek an inquiry into the appalling mismanagement of state support for nursing homes during the Covid crisis? The horrendous consequences for elderly people from the State’s inexplicable and unaccountable inactions are stark and harrowing. More than 2,000 […]
As we noted last week on Gript, the result of the Dublin Bay South bye-election, where the media set the posh against the privileged, was never going to be much of a surprise. The constituency is one of the wealthiest areas in the country. As far as gated houses and disposable incomes are concerned, DBS is not so […]
Bye-elections are a curious beast, not least because with just one electoral area, and therefore a smallish number of candidates, the focus of politicos becomes hyper-intense. There’s gangs of them digging for gold, or even votes, in the leafy streets of Dublin Bay South at the moment. Ministers are pictured getting down with the party juniors […]
From the government to Sinn Féin and the hard-left: all the parties who cheered on the lockdown are equally to blame for the mounting job losses and rapidly-approaching economic devastation caused by their unquestioning approach to the Covid crisis, where the only challenge put by most of the Opposition was usually for even more stringent, […]
This week has seen extraordinary and unsettling scenes across Dublin city, as Gardaí drew batons to clear young drinkers off South William Street, and clamped down on other parts of the city. Apparently groups of young people were forced to leave St Stephen’s Green and other areas, so they all drifted down to South William […]