Approximately 1.5 million dental patients are being exposed to a lifetime of embarrassment, decreased nutrition and loss of well-being according to the chief executive of the Irish Dental Association, Fintan Hourihan. Mr Hourihan made the remarks as part of his evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health Review of the Operation of the […]
It’s getting hard to count the number of disasters the Minister for Health has been involved in this week, and its only Wednesday morning. At the present rate, it is entirely possible, if not likely, he’ll have single handedly bankrupted the state by Friday. First, this week, we learned what he was up to in […]
When I put this down on the list of things to write about, yesterday afternoon, the plan was simple enough: Point out how ludicrously insane this statement is, and question how in the world it ended up being allowed to go unchallenged on the national broadcaster. But then, last night, we heard that the Government […]
Parents of deaf children have said they are “relieved and hopeful” after the Minister of State for Disability, Anne Rabbitte, paused the rollout of a scheme which would have meant that special schools lost their in-house speech and language therapists. Educators and parents had strongly opposed the removal of the on-site therapists from deaf schools, […]
The young adult died with a blood clot in their brain and a diminished platelet count, outcomes that authorities have recently associated as a “very rare” possible side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
NPHET has warned that the risk of a new wave of covid-19 over the summer is “considerable”. However, UK experts say a summer wave is no longer expected, and that their initial modelling was overly pessimistic. NPHET is set to warn the government that if Ireland eases restrictions too fast, there could be another covid-19 […]
The Green Party has called for increasing Ireland’s social welfare rate to €250 a week in a bid to end poverty – even as the national debt is set to soar to close to €250bn in coming years. Green Party Minister of State and TD Joe O’Brien says that he would “challenge anyone” to try […]
A reported rise of covid-19 cases in children is because of an increase in covid testing – not the re-opening of schools, according to a senior health expert. Professor Philip Nolan, who is chairman of the Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, has said that data indicates schools are a low-risk environment for contracting covid, following […]
This is one of those stories that is half common sense, and half utterly ludicrous. In fairness to Fine Gael Senator Barry Ward, let us start with the part that’s common sense: Vaccinated persons should be exempt from Mandatory Hotel Quarantine – Ward 12th April 2021 – Senator Barry Ward Fine Gael Senator Barry Ward […]
Labour leader Alan Kelly called the situation “embarrassing”.
The HSE appears to have reversed its requirement for student nurses to receive the covid-19 vaccine before taking up clinical placements. In a letter seen by Gript, the Chief Clinical Officer now says the new directive supersedes previous correspondence which said students would be prevented from being assigned to placements in HSE facilities unless they […]
Singer and former MEP, Dana Rosemary Scallon, has received substantial damages and an apology from the Sunday World newspaper in settlement of a defamation claim. Dana, a former Eurovision song contest winner, who also held a seat in the European Parliament as an Irish MEP and is a prominent values campaigner, said that the paper had published […]