Herd immunity?
It has not been much remarked upon, in the early days of the new year, that there is one political certainty in 2022: The year begins with Micheál Martin as Taoiseach. It will end with somebody else in the job. Mr. Martin made a deal to take power, and at the centre of that deal […]
Cappagh Hospital in Dublin is not an acute hospital. It is the national orthopaedic hospital, with 159 beds, and seven state of the art operating theatres. It is where you go when you need an operation on your bones, or muscles. It does not accept, and is not equipped to handle, Covid patients. However, at […]
Dull but safe?
2021 was the year of the great Irish vaccine culture war. And, in a sane world, 2021 is where that great vaccine culture war would stay. We now know the facts about the Covid 19 vaccines, and what they do, and do not, do. We know, for example, that the vaccines confer some important benefits. […]
Happy Kwanzaa
And a Lesson from History
The percentage of those going regularly to church is quite small, maybe less than 10%
In 2003, American journalist Bill Moyers asked Bill Gates a question. Why, Moyers wanted to know, are you so passionate about reproductive issues? Gates considered. “But did you come to reproductive issues as an intellectual, philosophical pursuit?” Moyers pressed. “Or was there something that happened? [W]as there a revelation?” “When I was growing up, my parents were […]
Shocker
In the bible, both Old and New Testaments, it is axiomatic that a child is a gift from the Lord: “For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139); “Truly children are a gift from the Lord, a blessing, the fruit of the womb” (Psalm 127), and […]
We have all heard about the deaths, the lockdowns and the business closures but have there been any actual winners in Ireland’s ongoing Covid-19 pandemic? Strange to say but there have been plenty of winners although most of them prefer not to talk about it. Instead, the view appears to be that their good fortune […]