Trapped for 2 years More than 18,000 people have now signed a petition calling on the Irish government to intervene and get an Irish citizen home from China where he has been kept against his will for 2 years. Dublin businessman Richard O’Halloran has now been under detention in China since March 2019. He is […]
A beauty salon owner in Balbriggan opened her business this morning, only to be swiftly shut down by the Gardaí. At least two businesses have been closed by An Garda Síochana in recent days after a gym in Donegal and beauty salon in north Dublin decided to open their doors to customers. The businesses were […]
The latest available data shows that Ireland is strongly on track to vaccinate 80,000 people a week. Between Sunday the 14th and Saturday the 20th of February, the last day we have data for, 77,612 vaccinations were administered. 40,016 of those were first doses, with 37,596 being second doses. The average number of doses administered […]
Update: Professor Staines has admitted to sending the material reported below, you can read about that HERE. Gript can reveal that members of the Zero-Covid advocacy group ISAG have recently been instructed to “look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty.” The revelation comes from a trove of hundreds of emails, draft documents, and […]
RTÉ Radio One made the restaurant-owner promise to give them an exclusive interview. RTÉ told restaurateur Paul Treyvaud they were “double-booked” this morning and could not conduct an exclusive interview the station had sought about his decision to open his restaurant on July 1 in defiance of any lockdown rules that will still be in […]
Scepticism about the Covid vaccines, and unwillingness to take them, is vastly higher in the United States than it is in Ireland. So, you’d think, wouldn’t you, that those in power would be using every carrot available to try to entice the recalcitrant into getting their immunity jab so that we can all forget this […]
A tale of two countries. First, the United Kingdom: A FOUR-STAGE plan could see England’s coronavirus restrictions completely lifted by 21 June, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. And now, the place that was once part of the United Kingdom, and where at least one writer for a website you are currently reading is […]
Twitter has blocked a Catholic Bishop from posting after he wrote a tweet opposing Assisted Suicide, but he says he believes the ban will be lifted. The issue of Assisted Suicide has come to public prominence since the People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, introduced a bill, currently before the Oireachtas Justice Committee, which seeks […]
Facebook has shut down numerous social media accounts advertising a “lockdown rave” on St. Patrick’s Day, at the request of Fine Gael. According to the event’s social media accounts, the rave is to be held somewhere around the Kildare-Dublin area on March 17th, with the location set to be revealed 12 hours before it begins […]
Around 160,000 hospitality workers have been “devastated” by the news that they will not be able to return to work until mid-summer, according to Irish hoteliers. Taoiseach Micheál Martin dropped the bombshell announcement over the weekend, stating that around mid-summer the government would simply give consideration to the easing of lockdown restrictions on the hospitality […]
Ireland’s vaccination numbers continue to rise with 71,730 vaccines administered between Saturday the 13th and Friday the 19th of February – the last day we have data for. 36,267 of those were first doses, with 35,463 being second doses. The average number of doses administered per day has nearly doubled since the it first became […]
These are tough times for everybody in Ireland, and indeed, in many countries around the world. Many businesses are shuttered. Many people, having seen their jobs rendered too dangerous by covid legislation, are not working, and are on income supports. Governments themselves, in fact, are having a tough time of it: With the collapse in […]