Cards on the table: I think criticising him for this is nuts: On the front line – Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar at Morgans Place site in Blachardstown where he he help with #Covid19 testing of residents. This sends out a really positive message šš»šš»šš» pic.twitter.com/neqoZ817dZ — Mayor of Galway – Cllr. Eddie Hoare (@EddieHoareFG) April 27, 2020 […]
Last year human relations think tankĀ ReventureĀ (A Future that Works) published aĀ reportĀ on how the loneliness āepidemicā is impacting workplaces in Australia. Now, in the middle of another epidemic that is shaking economies and the world of work, feeling isolated in a huge, open plan office seems the least of a workerās worries.Ā MercatorNetĀ askedĀ Reventureās managing director,Ā Dr Lindsay McMillian, […]
Given the apparent problem the gardai face of people coming in from the North of Ireland and risking the spread of Covid 19, would you support temporary restrictions on the Irish border?Ā Leave us your comments and VOTE in our Poll below
Before we get into this, hereās the obligatory disclaimer for the āwhatabout Trumpā people in the comments: Yes, Donald Trump has also been credibly accused of sexual misbehaviour by numerous women. Yes, Donald Trump was caught on tape appearing to brag about what would be a sexual assault. Happy? Who are we kidding. Of course […]
This is a strange time and a strange situation. The sentiment is indisputably true, but only in some respects. In fact, in the most important respect it is false. Rather than living in an abnormal time we are living in a time where normality has been amplified to the point whereby we cannot easily escape […]
Human Rights Watch is one of the most prominent and influential human rights advocacy groups in the world. It is particularly influential in the United States where it is headquartered. It describes itself as āroughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at […]
The dawn of mandatory vaccinations does seem to be upon us, but before that happens, perhaps we should take pause and ask: are we really willing to give up so much freedom from state-intrusion over a disease that appears to be as misunderstood as it is over-hyped?
In 2017 a Google employee in California, James Damore, was sacked for writing an internal memo in which he criticised the company’s obsession with gender equality above giving jobs to the best. Did Damoreās union declare a strike, and the Democrat left express its outrage? (Google was a major Clinton donor in 2016.) Of course […]
Do you agree with the Government’s plan to hold the leaving cert in August?Ā Leave us your comments and VOTE in our Poll below
Ireland is literally bursting at the teems with rubbish scattered across the country. In a recent walk in a ploughed field, I picked up in the region of 150 pieces of trash in a ten-minute period, everything from plastic bags, plastic bottles, black plastic, drink cans, sweet papers, and pieces of glass. At an estimate […]
Dr Chen Shih-Chung writes on the needs for international health organisations to recognize Taiwan in order to protect global health security.
In a welcome move, the Government has announced that this summer it will set out details of its plans to ban under-18s from undergoing sex-changes, with equalities minister Liz Truss saying that the development was about ensuring that under-18s were āāprotected from decisions that they could make, that are irreversible in the futureāā; she insisted: […]