“Refuse entry” advice reversed
It is important to call this kind of journalism out for what it is: It is the attempted demonisation of normal political activism.
It is a racing certainty, if you look at the comments under this post on facebook, twitter, or other social media platforms, that you will find at least four or five people saying that the new opinion polls in yesterday’s Sunday Papers showing that the Irish public support the latest NPHET restrictions are “fake polls”. […]
The World Health Organisation has said that the Omicron variant, which has been detected in at least 38 countries, has not caused any reported deaths since its discovery. The variant appears to be highly infectious, and the WHO predicts that it could account for half of all Europe’s cases in the next few months. However, […]
Last weekend Radicailín led a protest against outside the Dail. Here, they explain what needs to be done to protect women and girls.
Nobody should predict what the US Supreme Court will, or will not do, as the Casey decision in 1992 demonstrates.
If there is an area in which expertise might be expected, it would surely be in the area of producing the statistical models on which national policy in a time of crisis is based.
This is worth repeating. Ireland has 630 cases per 100,000 people over seven days compared to 453 in the United Kingdom.
One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.
RAI President Mark McGowan writes on the damage the Government has caused to the restaurant industry and the urgent steps needed to protect it
Our politicians, especially those who don’t wear an Independent badge, are often considered to be a weak, vacillating bunch. They flip-flop on important issues, and government by polling rather than by principle has become the norm. But not when it comes to Covid. When the issue is about endlessly locking the country down and punishing those who disagree, most of […]