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
The story changes week to week, and the only constant is utter panic. Here is the anatomy of a national nervous breakdown
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
Threats of prosecution for murder are a powerful way to dissuade doctors from killing relatives