The Chair of the Bioethics Commission of Austria is considering vaccine mandates for other diseases in addition to Covid-19. Christiane Druml said that mandatory vaccination against diseases such as measles, whooping cough or the flu should be considered. “The Covid-19 vaccination requirement could be the starting signal for a new attempt to better protect people […]
Pharmaceutical giant Moderna, working with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) nonprofit, have begun human trials of their experimental HIV vaccine last week, beginning the first phase of clinical trials. “We are tremendously excited to be advancing this new direction in HIV vaccine design with Moderna’s mRNA platform,” said IAVI CEO Mark Feinberg in a […]
Listen – whether you love or hate Green TD Joe O’Brien, there’s one thing you can’t take away from that man; he truly understands the gravity of the housing crisis and the problems in Direct Provision. Which makes it all the more confusing why he would oppose a social housing plan in his own neighbourhood. […]
This Sunday sees the 50th anniversary of the murders of 14 innocent civilians who were shot dead by soldiers of the British Parachute regiment during a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972. Thirteen died that day, with one man, John Johnston dying later from injuries. The killings sparked a wave of outrage […]
A US speech therapist has claimed that her clinic has seen a “364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers” due to mass mask-wearing. Jaclyn Theek, who runs a speech therapy clinic in Florida, told WPBF News (affiliated with ABC News) that before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, only 5% of her clinic’s […]
Mattie McGrath TD has accused the government of being “dangled on a string” by the Greens, ripping Green TD Brian Leddin for his comments on the increased fertiliser prices. The comments were made in the Dáil this week, as fertiliser prices soar across Ireland and put strain on farming businesses. Mattie McGrath attacks the supposedly […]
A leading oncologist has warned that societies urgently need to focus on finding cancers that were missed while the world was preoccupied with Covid-19. Professor Karol Sikora, who has been an oncologist for 50 years and was formerly the head of the WHO’s cancer program, made the comments this week on Twitter. “If we catch […]
The provisional conclusion which may be drawn from all of this is that the re-opening was the correct decision,
Support for EU membership here spans all political parties and shades of opinion.
Serial sex offender Chico Makamda, who has 15 previous convictions including sexual assault, false imprisonment and robbery, has been spotted wandering around in Ireland after he was ordered to self-deport by the courts. Makamda’s crimes include exposing himself to two teenage girls in Kerry, attempting to drag a random woman down a lane at night, […]
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It remains unclear why, if the contracts were always available, it required an internal investigation to find them.