Yesterday, we reported that Texas became the first US state to lift all Coronavirus restrictions, including – controversially – the statewide facemask mandate. From today, Texans are free to go about living their lives just like they did when the Coronavirus was still a twinkle in the eye of an imprisoned, and illegally captured, pangolin […]
In the middle of the worst economic crisis in decades, the government has announced that they will be ending the levy on banks that was brought in after the bailout, a move seen by many as essentially letting the banks off the hook after being saved by the taxpayers. At the same time, the VAT […]
A Report being launched today by Green Party TD and Minister of State at the Department of Rural and Community Development, Joe O’Brien, is to recommend a radical transformation of how local authorities assess and prioritise housing applications from non-Irish minorities and members of the Traveller community. The Minority Groups and Housing Services: Barriers […]
It’s good journalistic practice, as a general rule, to ask a person for comment before you write about them. But before sitting down to write this piece, last night, the only question that this writer could think to ask acting President of the University of Limerick, Kerstin May, was this: Have you lost your mind? […]
“I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if a hundred thousand teachers all cried out in anguish at once, and were suddenly silenced:” Nphet will consider making it mandatory for primary school children to wear face masks. Deputy chief medical officer Ronan Glynn said the formal advice is that children under 13 can […]
Last night, some students in Limerick unaccountably refused to take the opportunity to sit at home and watch me on Prime Time. Instead, they decided to do a pretty normal thing for students, and have a party, outdoors, in the fresh air, in Castletroy. Simon Harris is not happy: My understanding is a full investigation […]
According to a report yesterday in the Irish Examiner, Gardaí have described those responsible for the violence at Saturday’s anti lockdown protest as “opportunist hoodlums.” That would certainly appear to be an apt term given the background of the person who apparently fired the rocket. He was outed by other protestors, not by the mainstream media […]
Further cuts to Speech and Language services are set to impact those most in need of the support as an in-school Speech and Language therapist in a school for deaf children in Dublin is under threat. Holy Family Deaf School in Cabra has been told by the HSE that as a result of the rationalisation […]
On Wednesday last the Social Democrats introduced a Private Members Motion in the Dáil that called on the Government to extend the term of the Mother and Baby Home Commission for another 12 months to 28th February 2022. The aim of this was to facilitate a review from the Data Protection Commissioner and other relevant […]
Have we passed a crisis point? On Saturday night I watched a FB live stream from one Fabu-D who had been at the anti-lockdown protest in Dublin that day. It was revealing, and in the context of the crisis we are in I think it bodes badly. It wasn’t the events in Dublin that fascinated […]
“A moment of madness, which I will spend the rest of my life paying for.” That was the quote provided to the media yesterday by racehorse trainer Gordon Elliot: Tonight in an interview with the Racing Post, Elliott has spoken further about the incident and stated ‘it is indefensible’. “It is indefensible. Whether alive or […]
Gript has spoken to a number of parents who say that their children were sent home from school yesterday after the parents failed to fill in a “back to school” form provided by the HSE which asked parents to certify that their children were free of infectious diseases. The form asks parents to declare that […]