Here’s a question for Dr. Tony, if any of you credentialled, press conference attending journalists happen to be reading: Why ninety per cent? Why not ninety five? Or eighty seven? Or one hundred per cent? What’s so scientifically significant about the number ninety? Let me venture an answer to that: Nothing. There’s nothing scientific about […]
The Government says it wants the Electric Picnic to go ahead, but the matter is up to Laois County Council. The council says it would be open to letting the event go ahead, but the Government must change the law first. The truth is that neither of them probably want the event to go ahead. […]
At first blush, you might think this headline relates to Australia’s inexplicably slow vaccine rollout, compared to the rest of the western world. If they can’t get people jabbed, they may well have to rely on other measures. But no, you’d be wrong. Masks for years even after 80% of people are jabbed, she says: […]
History will not be kind to them
We discussed this briefly in my other piece this morning, but it deserves a story of its own. There are two points here: The first is that it demonstrates that even the King himself is not immune to political pressure. The second, obviously, is the question of how long this discrimination on the basis of […]
Meanwhile, Irish citizens remain in Afghanistan.
Her face is not on the cover of a national daily, and her name is not trending on social media.
He’s quite right, too. Partying in the street like common gougers. Properly civilised people have their parties with a glass of wine in one hand, and some tasteful finger-food in the other, in the more refined surroundings of somewhere like, say, the Merrion Hotel: Scenes outside Croke Park last Sunday were unacceptable and lessons need […]
One wonders if anyone in the Irish authorities has spotted the irony that as the Gardaí are carrying out further raids on an illegal immigration gang to stop people-smuggling, the government is gearing up to offer amnesty to illegal migrants in much the same way. The gang in question, based in the Republic, which Gardaí […]
It’s difficult to know what to think about this one: On the one hand, fewer organisations have had a more abysmal record in the pandemic than the World Health Organisation. First, they did not recognise the danger of the virus. Then, they actively helped China play down the danger of the virus. Then, they studiously […]
Ideology over justice.
Congratulations to Limerick, who did Cork-haters across the world a great service yesterday in demolishing the rebel county in Croke Park, in front of 40,000 fans. Thousands of people gathered in Dublin for the event. Thousands more gathered in pubs and other venues across both counties, perfectly legally. It was, while not quite a full […]