Throw open the doors?
Workers’ rights?
Last weekend Radicailín led a protest against outside the Dail. Here, they explain what needs to be done to protect women and girls.
The decision by the body representing Irish barristers to present a human rights award to the Movement for Asylum Seekers in Ireland has led to some comment. This is mostly due to the fact that the spokesperson for MASI, Bulelani Mfaco, who accepted the award, has had his initial claims for asylum here refused as […]
If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.
Just 60 ‘communications’ over 10 years
This is worth repeating. Ireland has 630 cases per 100,000 people over seven days compared to 453 in the United Kingdom.
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.
RAI President Mark McGowan writes on the damage the Government has caused to the restaurant industry and the urgent steps needed to protect it
Our politicians, especially those who don’t wear an Independent badge, are often considered to be a weak, vacillating bunch. They flip-flop on important issues, and government by polling rather than by principle has become the norm. But not when it comes to Covid. When the issue is about endlessly locking the country down and punishing those who disagree, most of […]
Green ambition collides with reality