Significant covid-19 restrictions are set to remain in place for at least two months, as both Micheal Martin and Leo Varadkar have stated that the state’s hands are tied by a shortage of vaccines. The news comes as the government has missed its vaccine targets three weeks in a row, consistently missing its own deadlines […]
There’s been a lot of attention given, in the lockdown-sceptical parts of the Irish internet, in recent days, to the results of a freedom of information request made by a website called freepress.ie. Here’s what they say: Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official […]
The preliminary agenda for the annual conference of the Teachers Union of Ireland has been released, and with it, a list of motions that the Union is set to debate when it gathers for that conference later this spring. Top of the agenda is motion 177, introduced by the Dublin branch of the TUI, which […]
Reid began his post in May 2019 on a salary of €229,194 per annum and is now in the second year of a five year contract.
The idea will be considered by NPHET.
Look, Leo, some of us knew this already. Apparently, though, other people needed to be told again: “There is a misconception that Fine Gael is a conservative party when it has in fact played a “crucial role” in advancing equality and in particular gender equality, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. Noting that women have often […]
The Taoiseach expressed surprise at the bishops’ statement on the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
A conference on Assisted Suicide and euthanasia has heard that a bill seeking to legalise Assisted Suicide in Ireland was a simplistic solution to a complex problem and tells people at the end of life that they are a burden. Joan Freeman, founder of Pieta House and the Centre for the Prevention of Self harm […]
It’s been a while now, but there was a time, at least when this writer was a toddler, when falling into thorny bushes was an occupational habit of being a small child. Today? It’s the equivalent of a decent sized win on the Lotto: A child left with facial scars after falling into brambles while […]
Volunteer workers at the Dublin Samaritans have doubled their usual hours as the number of distressed calls they receive has skyrocketed due to covid-19 and the lockdown. Reportedly, almost all callers mentioned covid-19 and the lockdown as a major part of their reason for calling the helpline. The Dublin branch of the 24-hour organisation received […]
Senator Ronan Mullen raised Gript’s Zero Covid leaks in the Seanad this week, demanding to know why the group has been allowed to “scaremonger” without challenge from politicians or the media. “I want to raise the so-called “Zero Covid” proposal today Cathaoirleach, this proposal for even harsher lockdown measures for the remainder of the […]
The text of Article 15.2 of Bunreacht nah Eireann, the Irish constitution, is set to form the basis of a case taken by Barrister and Activist Tracey O’Mahony, which seeks to challenge the constitutionality of almost every lockdown restriction enacted by the Irish Government, Gript can reveal. In court documents lodged this week, which have […]