“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 […]
What’s woke this week? Disney slapped an “offensive content” label on The Muppet Show, and ensured that the Jim Henson classic can only be seen using an adult account on Disney’s streaming service, Disney Plus. A disclaimer now appears when viewers attempt to watch the show: “This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or […]
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 […]
In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan was recorded as first using the phrase “Evil Empire” to describe the USSR. In doing so, the Cold War Warrior focused the minds of America and the West on defeating the totalitarian regime in Moscow. This phrase was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, rolling back […]
“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 […]
There’s always something new that you can learn about euthanasia practices. An indignant letter to JAMA Surgery by two surgeons from a hospital in the Netherlands led BioEdge back to a 2017 letter in Transplant International about home-based euthanasia + organ donation. It’s not one of the better publicised features of Dutch euthanasia. Apparently many people are interested in organ donation […]
The Venerable Fergus Finlay has thrown his ponderous intellect into the war against the Irish Deplorables. His response to the protest against the lockdown on Saturday was to suggest that a census be conducted to discover how many of the thousands who attended, and not just “the violent ones”, were in receipt of the PUP […]