Fran McNulty of RTÉ broke the news on Twitter this afternoon. He said the Data Protection Commission is apparently dealing with complaints that employers at meat plants and nursing homes received the Covid-19 test results of employees before they were given to workers. BREAKING: Data Protection Commission dealing with complaints about #Covid_19 test results being […]
Matt Damon is a Hollywood actor probably best known for his role as Jason Bourne in the blockbuster series of action thrillers where a former CIA assassin (who actually seems like a really decent guy) impresses with his lethal skills and his ability to outwit a vast array of enemies. Jason Bourne is bad-ass. There’s no doubt about […]
The porn industry is a deeply misogynistic and exploitative business which uses women to make money, lots of money, mostly for ruthless, creepy men. The same could be said for the abortion industry which profits men, in every sense, by exploiting women in crisis – but which has managed, with the help of financial backing and an […]
I don’t know Oliver Callan from Adam, and we’d probably disagree on many things, but he is a genuinely funny comedian. His political sketches are hilarious, and he’s a brilliant mimic, effortlessly taking off everyone from Mary-Lou McDonald to Brian Johnson and Leo Varadkar. Last week, however, he learned that criticising Leo Varadkar during a pandemic will […]
One of the most remarkable achievements of the Irish government in the Covid-19 crisis has been its ability to avoid almost any hard questions for any of its actions, even when they’ve made clearly terrible decisions that would end up costing lives. Most media outlets have simply fallen into line and become mouthpieces for the […]
In the week before Easter, Life Institute (for which I am a spokeswoman) launched a campaign seeking to ensure older people would not be denied life-saving care in this crisis, because decisions regarding the allocation of critical care should never be based solely on age. Events since then have given fresh urgency to the initiative. Disturbing […]
In May 2018, with just a week to go to the vote in the referendum, the Yes vote was slipping in the polls. An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, made an urgent and emotive pitch to voters. In an interview with Seán O Rourke on the country’s national radio station, RTE, he focused on the danger of using abortion […]
Two days ago the number of nursing homes with clusters of coronavirus infections in Ireland was 50. Within 24 hours that figure had doubled to 99 homes. This is very worrying news. A cluster is defined as “three or more COVID-19 cases in a single institution for a 72-hour period”. There are about 560 nursing […]
The latest figures from the HSPC show that a shocking 1,084 of the coronavirus cases in Ireland are associated with healthcare workers are. That’s 27% of the total number of confirmed cases – a percentage that keeps creeping upwards as new numbers are released. These numbers are horrific and completely unacceptable. The failure of the government to protect the people on the […]
There aren’t enough superlatives in the world to express our gratitude for the courage of healthcare professionals who are putting their lives on the line to save others during the Covid-19 pandemic. Doctors are coming out of retirement to work on the frontlines, and nurses and other medics are coming home to fight the good […]
What kind of mentality observes the global lockdown and horrifying death toll from the Coronavirus and acts as if the real problem is that there might not be enough abortions? At a time when heroic men and women on the frontline are making enormous sacrifices to save lives, abortion supporters are fretting that COVID-19 might be preventing […]
Coronavirus is not the flu. It’s much more infectious.