President Trump will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Saturday, at about 9pm Irish time. Officially, nobody knows who the nominee will be, but the betting markets, and smart pundits, are almost all agreed: It will be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, presently a Judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals: […]
Important thing to note in this story: The word “controlled”: “Coronavirus should be let spread amongst people below 60 in a controlled way, the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee will be told on Wednesday. Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist Dr Johan Giesecke will recommend that the virus be let spread through the population alongside a programme that concentrates […]
JOHN AIDAN BYRNE interviews Author Emily Conrad on her book FAITHLESS which discusses the stunning rise of US Electoral College members who voted against Presidential or VP candidate they’d pledged; death threats & foreign interference in 2016 and 2020. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Emily Conrad has written a comprehensive account of the US […]
10th of March 2020 – The Minister for Foreign Affairs appears on Morning Ireland. Gavin Jennings: “It looks like there are two choices – lock everything down before thousands become infected, or lock everything down after thousands become infected, like what’s happened in Italy. Why are we waiting to make more moves here? Simon Coveney: […]
Eight months into this pandemic, we sometimes seem to be no nearer to knowing what’s going on than we were at the beginning. Lockdowns vs. no lockdowns; masks vs. no masks; hydroxychloroquine vs. remdesivir; opening schools vs. closing schools, etc., etc. Every day, top-level experts express significantly divergent viewpoints on each of these questions. One […]
If April’s testing rate had been what it is now, it’s fair to assume we would have found double the number of cases, making the entire attempt to gauge the severity and seriousness of the virus on the basis of case numbers a fool’s game.
At first glance, these numbers might shock you. But there’s little reason to doubt them, for reasons we’ll come to in a moment: Research: 47% think the worst of the pandemic is ahead of us, the highest level reported since April 52% think there should be more restrictions, similar to the levels reported in March […]
HOW many Catholics were attending Mass before the pandemic began? How many have returned in the meantime? How many will come back when this is all over? These were some of the vital questions asked in a new Amarach Research poll commissioned by The Iona Institute. Here are the main findings: 27pc of Catholics were […]
On the 18th of March this year a German court convicted two former London-based investment bankers for their involvement in a criminal tax fraud that has “left treasuries across Europe tens of billions of euros out of pocket.” Then in June, the same Court published an anonymised 299-page version of its decision in which it […]
On Saturday, the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) decided at a meeting of its national executive to ballot its members on strike action. Although part of this concerns the on-going and legitimate concern over the status and pay grades of some teachers, it is evident that the main issue is the re-opening of […]
A local residents group in Donegal claim they have not been given a “fair say” after planning permission for a new development was allegedly passed without sufficient consultation.
The first thing that any new British Prime Minister has to do, upon taking office, is to pen “the letter of last resort”. We have no idea what’s in it, but we know what it is: Instructions given, in a sealed envelope, to the commanders of Her Majesty’s nuclear submarines, only to be opened in […]