This report by SIMI is a fascinating document, if you’re interested in policy, and it systematically takes the Government’s declared policy apart, in an authoritative, and convincing way.
The idea that the west has some moral duty to abandon millions of people to Russian overlordship and bullying just to keep the Russians happy is absurdist.
As NPHET advises that Ireland should drop masking rules, a fierce debate as broken out between Ireland’s favourite scientist and himself. Yesterday, in the wake of the new advice, ISAG’s Professor Luke O’Neill tweeted that “masks are still useful even if everyone isn’t wearing one.” Remember – masks are still useful even if everyone isn’t […]
Cynical
on the substance, Willie O’Dea is right: Fianna Fáil has become, in Government, functionally indistinguishable from Fine Gael.
According to People Before Profit’s Bríd Smith, the pandemic is “not over” and we need another 4 weeks of masking to stop the spread. These lads must be robbing a urology clinic, because they are clearly taking the piss. The comments were made this week on Virgin Media’s the Tonight Show, when presenter Daniel McConnell […]
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Labour’s Education spokesman, has admitted that masks are “very detrimental” to children – while advocating for their continued use. We need a nationwide manhunt for “the plot,” which has quite evidently been lost. The bizarre comments were made during a Prime Time segment on RTÉ One this week, with Ó Ríordáin urging […]
Control
What we can say, though, is that the fear many people have about ditching facemasks is evidence that there have been social consequences.
Whether a horrific crime is relevant today, or just a form of outrage archaeology is, in Sinn Fein’s telling, a simple matter of first asking which side carried it out.
Climate politics will continue to provide a persistent tailwind for higher prices in Oil and Gas in 2022.
At some point, perhaps soon, perhaps later, Ireland’s younger voters will realise that this is a country with increasingly nothing to offer them except for rainbows, and symbolism