People are thinking outside the box. We have time aplenty these days to think and to consider what we might like to take from ‘new normal’ when what we used to call normality resumes again. Some things about new normal feel more normal and more rational than old normal. Some things about old normal seem quite […]
The Gardaí are struggling to walk the fine line as a result of the emergency regulations enacted by the Government. On the one hand, they are reassuring the public that resorting to arrest and sanction to deter people from breaking the restrictions on movement would be a last recourse and the hope would be that […]
In her 2007 autobiography, Infidel: My Life, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells an interesting story about her experience when arriving to Holland at age 20 as a refugee from Somalia. The story is a poignant yet simple one. Ayaan was amazed by two features of daily life in Holland which are, to you and me, things […]
A disability rights group has said that a GP surgery which sent letters for adults with autism saying they should a ‘do not resuscitate’ plan in place if they become critically ill during the Coronavirus crisis behaved appallingly. Yesterday, BBC reported that Voyage Care, who cares for the group of autistic adults, “was the sent […]
An interesting report in the Examiner the other day that, with all the Coronavirus news, got a little bit overlooked. But it’s genuinely surprising that it’s taken this long for something like this to be floated: A number of Fine Gael ministers do not believe a government can be formed and that a second general […]
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the infection that can lead people to acquire AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). This in turn results in the ‘gradual and persistent failure of the immune system, resulting in heightened risk of life-threatening infection and cancers.’ It has wrought absolute carnage in the human population since it was first diagnosed in […]
While the ongoing global shutdown of business is highly damaging to the economy and jobs, most world leaders have made the calculation that stopping the coronavirus is worth the economic turmoil and disruption to daily life. The risk of letting covid-19 spread through the population is simply too great, and they seem to be taking […]
We have written here here before about the increasing encroachment of overseas vulture and cuckoo funds into the Irish property sector. Government schemes such as the Immigrant Investment Programme, allow wealthy Chinese nationals who are being advised by Irish companies such as Bartra, to basically buy all the rights that go with being granted a […]
In fairness, there’s not a lot the international community can do about this. The Moon, as we all know, is sovereign American territory, boldly claimed by the late Neal Armstrong, who planted the American flag in it. It’s theirs, by right of conquest. And now, finally, an American President is going to make some money […]
One of the things that frustrates me most about the Irish media is the way that a lot of the time, they’ll cheerfully and unthinkingly report the most obviously nonsensical nonsense from the Government without stopping to ask a single obvious question. There’s a new line out this morning in relation to the leaving cert […]
The president of the European Union’s top scientific body has resigned after just three months in the position saying he has “lost faith in the system” after being told he couldn’t set up a special programme to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Mauro Ferrari, an internationally acclaimed scientist in the field of nano-medicine, had been appointed […]
Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some vital facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue. This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the lethality of Covid-19 based […]