Independent TD Carol Nolan has dubbed NPHET’s call to extend the lockdown as “fanatical,” and said that they have reached “zero common sense.” Speaking this week, the Laoise-Offaly TD slammed NPHET’s call to delay the re-opening of indoor dining for restaurants, cafés, pubs, and summer camps for children “for weeks.” “I think there will be […]
Question: What is the average age of members of the Dáil? The youngest TD is Fianna Fáil’s James O’Connor, who was elected at the absurd age of 22, and is the youngest by nearly a decade from the Social Democrat’s Holly McKeever-Cairns. The median TD, though, is well over 40, and probably closer to 50 […]
The Irish Government, via the Department of Health, has published a tender document seeking bidders to provide hotel rooms, transport, security, and healthcare monitoring for the purpose of providing mandatory hotel quarantine in Ireland into 2022, Gript can reveal. The existence of the tender suggests that, whatever it might say in public, the Irish Government […]
32 towns and villages across Ireland have begun what protestors are calling Monday Marchers – a weekly assembly taking place in opposition to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and calling for health equality in the State. Organisers said the protests “are organised and attended by ordinary citizens who have had little or no voice since March 2020 […]
“Zero Covid” Professor Sam McConkey has said that the re-opening of the economy should not be slowed or hindered by the Delta variant, adding that a societal discussion is needed about “acceptable risk.” Speaking on RTÉ Radio 1’s Today with Claire Byrne today, Professor McConkey said that the re-opening of indoor dining should not be […]
42 consultants at the National Maternity Hospital have said that “misinformation” and “misunderstanding” around the planned move to the St Vincent’s campus could delay the creation of a “world-class” hospital. In a letter published in today’s Irish Times, the consultants, including the current master and three former masters, insist that all procedures will be available […]
As the government discusses delaying re-opening, there were literally more expert members of NPHET than there were patients in hospital with covid-19 last week. As of Friday the 25th, there were 36 patients in Irish hospitals with Covid-19 according to HSE chief Paul Reid. Additionally, only 13 of these were in ICU. By comparison, there […]
Sports journalist Ewan McKenna, responding to the latest Government leaks to the newspapers yesterday, which suggested that the July 5th date for indoor hospitality would be extended further, got pretty close to the truth of the matter with this tweet: This week – We can't reopen much for July. August – Schools going back so […]
The TV series “Normal People” portrayed coming-of-age in modern Ireland as adventurous and liberating. But Woke “diversity” policies have made real-life “normal” people victims of a repressive “social justice” culture in which the worst thing anyone can be is white, indigenous Irish, heterosexual, fully aware of one’s own gender, able-bodied, of sound mind and not […]
Irish psychiatrists have expressed concern over the safety of patients with mental health problems, should Ireland legalise assisted suicide. Writing in the Irish Times, Chairwoman Prof Anne Doherty and Vice-Chairman Dr Eric Kelleher of the Faculty of Liaison Psychiarty, College of Psychiatrists of Ireland wrote a letter in response to a letter by Canadian doctors […]
The owner of Treyvauds, a family run restaurant in Killarney, says that they will be opening on July 5th “no matter what”. This week, pubs and restaurants reacted in anger and despair to indications that the government might act on advice to further delay the full reopening of restaurants and pubs beyond the long-awaited date at the […]
Senator Michael McDowell has said complying with climate change must not “become an absolute religion” and that Ireland cannot become “some kind of green equivalent of an Islamic republic in pursuit of some purist idea.” Speaking on the Climate Bill, the former Justice Minister also said that the desire of the Green Party to ensure […]