Details of the Government National Economic Recovery Plan that have been leaked to the Irish Independent have revealed that more €500 million of the EUs COVID related Recovery and Resilience Facility to Ireland will be spent on reducing carbon emissions. This means that more than 50% of the €1bn loan provided by the EU will […]
It feels like a very long time ago now, but it is worth remembering, and reminding ourselves, that the original point of lockdowns was to reduce social contacts between people, and limit opportunities for Coronavirus to spread amongst the population. The success of lockdowns was supposed to be measured in scientific terms – the flatness […]
A stupendous success, says Stephen Donnelly: Mandatory hotel quarantining has worked effectively Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says. He tells the Seanad that 4,616 people have entered hotel quarantine here, 178 tested positive for Covid-19 and 59 cases associated with variants of concern were detected. — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) May 31, 2021 178 cases of Covid, […]
Over 6,500 hours of Covid-19 content is to be broadcast under the terms of the grants.
Pro-life groups have challenged the government to do more to provide women with real alternatives when faced with an unexpected pregnancy as research showed nine out of ten Irish family doctors are not providing abortion. “It’s a significant finding, as clearly doctors – the people most likely to best understand the reality of abortion – […]
Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has warned that a potential fourth wave of covid-19 could jeopardise the re-opening of the economy. Speaking on RTÉ’s This Week programme, the Táinaiste stated that “this Indian variant or even the Vietnamese variant which we’re reading about now” could result in a fourth wave of covid-19, going on to speak critically […]
Gardaí are threatening to cordon off entire streets in the capital city after large crowds were seen socialising during the good weather last weekend, and Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that the government may reconsider opening the economy if individuals don’t follow lockdown measures. According to the Taoiseach, the planned easing of lockdown for July […]
The Far-Right Observatory (FRO), an anonymous collective of activists which came together in November 2018, has been granted €112,500 from the Dormant Accounts Fund. The public money makes up half of a €225,000 grant that has been awarded to the FRO, over three years, by Rethink Ireland’s Equality Fund. It is understood that a portion […]
The Rural Independent Group has slammed the government for failing to create an independent beef regulator to protect the sector, claiming farmers have been “let down” by a lack of action on the “broken” beef system. The remarks came following a Dáil motion by the group calling for better regulation of what they called “Beef […]
As bad as the new Red C/Sunday Business Post opinion poll is for Fianna Fáil the headline figures are not actually that obviously terrible. 14% nationally is still the stuff of nightmares for the party that has dominated Irish politics since the 1930’s, but it actually represents a slight increase on the previous version of […]
Look at the headline on this RTE News story from yesterday: RTE’s headline claims that Professor Luke O’Neill has said that it “might be time to slow down the re-opening”. There is only one problem, and that is as follows: O’Neill said nothing of the sort. What did he say? Well, you have to dig […]
Peadar Toibín TD has expressed his “vehement opposition” to the government’s emergency power extension bill, and slammed the opposition for what he called “collaboration” with the government on lockdown. “My political party, Aontú, is vehemently opposed to this Bill and I will be voting against it, as I did in its previous incarnation,” the Deputy […]