There is now a total of 769 confirmed cases of Covid-19 north and south of Ireland, and tragically there have been 4 deaths so far. Many of these infections could have been prevented in my view. Many of these people are likely to have contracted the illness when flights were still arriving from northern Italy into […]
It seems the coming days will determine how Taiwan is remembered in the fight against Covid-19.
The internal troubles at The Guardian took an interesting turn this week when Suzanne Moore, the feminist writer, published the names of every signatory of a letter sent to Katharine Viner, editor of the Guardian, calling out Moore for writing supposedly ‘transphobic content’. Moore recently wrote an article, headlined Women must have the right to […]
When everything else in life is stripped bare, God is the one certainty that we can cling to.
Covid-19 looks likely to rank among the most startling black swan events of history. A black swan in economic parlance disturbs the existing paradigms, sails into sudden view out of seeming nowhere and shatters settled doctrines about white feathers, orange beaks and blacked up eyes. Who could have predicted? We were looking in the wrong […]
With whispers of an end to partition on the lips of many, with predictions of a border poll rife, and with the British government exhibiting increasing signs of disinterest in the Ulster Plantation, it seems the arc of history is slowly bending towards Irish unity. However, if Brexit has taught us one thing, it is […]
Just when you thought things in this #Covid-19 landscape couldn’t get more frustrating, along comes some god-awful celebrity video to annoy us. Everyone is already restless, housebound, kind of scared, and fairly fed-up. The kids are moping around the house, emptying cupboards of food at a speed that would rise envy in a swarm of locusts, and […]
Terms like ‘self-isolation, ‘social distancing’ and even ‘cocooning’ are fast becoming part of our national vocabulary. For the vast majority of people, these new practices and behaviours will be somewhere between a major and minor inconvenience. Some businesses may close-others will bounce back; but we will go on, even if it is in a radically […]
President Jair Bolsonaro is among the multitude of people who expressed outrage towards the show.
Tim Jackson is in agreement with Joe Brolly about the Taoiseach’s speech.
A disproportionate number of very strange stories about the Reproductive Revolution originate in the land of fruits and nuts, i.e. California. However, it would be unfair to ignore Florida, a state which does a lot of heavy lifting in this area. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry claims that although Florida has only 6% of the US population, […]
So apparently there’s this illness going around at the moment, you might have heard about it, kind of a big deal. Sorry, don’t mean to be flippant – it is my defence mechanism. For a number of weeks now I have been viewing the COVID-19 outbreak in other parts of the world with some interest but […]