In the aftermath of senseless horror, we reach for easy answers, and ignore the harder truths
What value, in other words, do we get from RTE? In my own case, and I sorely doubt I am alone, the answer is none.
Yes, the Government could ignore NPHET, on paper. But why would they?
Benefacts
What we have in Ireland is a plainly political lockdown, not a scientific one.
Under President Trump, bad news for the American President was regularly amongst the top stories in Ireland. Under President Biden, who has just had one of the worst weeks in living memory for an American President, such news struggles to make it into the top twenty stories in the Irish media.
‘Political Interference’
A global first for surgery of its kind
Jan 6th not a coup.
In the wake of the senseless and tragic killing of 23-year-old Offaly native Ashling Murphy, there has understandably been a viscerally emotional reaction from people the length and breadth of the country. Naturally, we all want to ensure that something this awful can never happen again, and most people (myself included) agree that new systems […]
In 1922, Ireland was torn in half by a terrible civil war that scarred our nation and its politics for a century. After winning the War of Independence, and striking a major blow for the freedom of the whole island, our victory should have been a time of celebration. Instead, it was a time of […]
It strains credulity to believe that the hospital situation changed so markedly in just two weeks.