After Donald Trump, at least partly to distract from his own failures over Coronavirus, announced last night that he would be defunding the World Health Organisation, the reaction in Ireland was pretty much exactly what you would expect. “An indefensible decision”, pronounced Simon Coveney, accusing the US President of “undermining trust” in the WHO: This […]
We should be vigilant when politicians and elites tell us that many restrictions will apply for a long time to come, or until a (mandatory?) vaccine is developed.
The World Health Organization is being criticised for being too close to China, one of his major funders. Director-General Tedros Adhanom has been loud in his praise of China’s management of the epidemic and has failed (in the eyes of his critics) to point out its shortcomings. In a blistering article in Foreign Policy, a […]
Due to physical distancing requirements it has not been possible for all 159 TD’s to meet in Dáil Eireann. An interim measure aimed at overcoming this has involved nominating a proportional number of Party and Group representatives to attend and vote on emergency legislation. But this is not seen as anything like a long-term solution-especially […]
Pop quiz: Who said this, on January 23rd? Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said his party will not form a “grand coalition” with Fine Gael after the general election. Mr Martin said his party was only interested in creating a new government with other “centre” parties such as Labour and the Greens. Asked if […]
It’s quite extraordinary, when you put it all in one place, how incompetent the Irish Government has been in relation to the management of the threat Coronavirus poses to nursing homes. At the time of writing, there are around 214 so-called “clusters” of cases in Irish nursing homes, out of 268 nursing homes in total. […]
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For years, Bernie Sanders’ critics have accused him and his campaign of political radicalism and holding fringe, far-Left positions. His opponents often claim that he is a crypto-socialist (if not full-blown communist) who wants to smuggle dangerous and extreme ideas into the White House under a moderate guise. Sanders, of course, vigorously denies these allegations. […]
An interesting little addendum to the story this morning about Ireland being the tenth worst country in the world for Coronavirus deaths per million people: All of the ten countries that head that list, Ireland, and the nine worse than us, are in the European Union. You have to get to 11th on the list, […]
Ireland is, both in population and land mass, a tiny country. As a result, the total number of daily deaths from Covid 19 in Ireland is unlikely – barring absolute catastrophe – ever to hit the horrifying four-figure numbers we’re getting close to seeing in the UK, and the USA, and Spain and Italy. Add […]
This Easter may have been a particularly strange and muted one for Christians, with church doors closed and digital media providing a poor substitute in its place, but the significance of the event remains the same: the Son of God rises from the dead in glory, giving us a chance to live with Him eternally.
A leading crisis pregnancy support organisation says that it is busier than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, and is providing ongoing practical and emotional help to women “24/7” in the crisis. Gianna Care said that they were “thankful and delighted” at the public response to a new initiative which sought to sponsor pregnant women and […]