Love him or loathe him, he’s right here: “The WHO really blew it,” Mr Trump said in a Twitter post. “For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China-centric. We will be giving that a good look. “Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why […]
If one was to sit down and draw up a list of things related to the Coronavirus for which somebody in Ireland should be arrested and prosecuted, there are a few things you might put on it. For starters, there was the decision to allow flights from Northern Italy to keep landing in the country […]
A few days ago on Twitter, our Editor here at Gript, John McGuirk questioned the level of training that was necessary for a HSE nurse to make a determination of death. It was a question that John asked in good faith-since most of us assume that such a determination should be straightforward. But since this […]
Two days ago the number of nursing homes with clusters of coronavirus infections in Ireland was 50. Within 24 hours that figure had doubled to 99 homes. This is very worrying news. A cluster is defined as “three or more COVID-19 cases in a single institution for a 72-hour period”. There are about 560 nursing […]
The governments Just Transition Strategy, with its clear priority on achieving the greatest levels of decarbonisation possible, is going to have a profound impact on Irish agriculture. We can take that as read. If implemented, it will also entirely reshape Ireland’s industrial landscape and, in particular the traditional industrial model that has revolved around Bord […]
My colleague, Tim Jackson, has written a really phenomenal piece this morning on the belated acquittal of Australian Cardinal, George Pell. You should read it all, but one line stood out: It’s well known that many clerics across the world committed the most heinous crimes against children in the mid-to-late 20th century, but the targeting, […]
Today’s verdict however is a vindication of Pell, one that any person who cherishes the right to a fair trial should welcome.
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, palliative care specialist Dr Kathryn Mannix urges people to talk about dying; from her experience, most ‘very sick people’ – ‘[f]rom teenagers to pensioners’ – although mostly ‘afraid that their illness and death will cast a shadow over the people they love’ find themselves ‘utterly unable to discuss this worry with […]
I’m writing this on the evening of day six of our four week “lockdown” (as if we were in prison) in New Zealand. So far we have survived pretty well, something I put down to having jobs which have so far not been too disrupted by the shutting down of the entire country, and good […]
It is said that in a war the first casualty is truth. The world is at war today in a unique way. There is not a corner of the globe that has resisted the onslaught of the lethal, microscopic,viral army. We should be united, co-operating and we should certainly suspend ‘business as usual’ when it comes […]
A Burmese Cardinal has called on the Chinese Communist Party to apologise and pay compensation, especially to poorer countries, for causing the coronavirus pandemic “through its criminal negligence and repression”. Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Archbishop of Yangon in Myanmar and president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, said “international voices are being raised against […]
The latest figures from the HSPC show that a shocking 1,084 of the coronavirus cases in Ireland are associated with healthcare workers are. That’s 27% of the total number of confirmed cases – a percentage that keeps creeping upwards as new numbers are released. These numbers are horrific and completely unacceptable. The failure of the government to protect the people on the […]