The High Court has ruled that insurance giant FBD must compensate four pub owners for disruption to their businesses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The landmark decision may affect claims being made by almost 1,000 Irish pubs and restaurants. The four test actions were taken by three Dublin bars Aberken, trading as Sinnotts Bar; Hyper Trust […]
A GP located on the Aran Islands, Co. Glaway, has said that the island’s population – particularly the elderly – should not be expected to travel to the Irish mainland to be vaccinated against covid-19. Dr. Marion Broderick, based in Inis Móir, said that rural GPs “expect the HSE to meet the challenge” of transporting […]
A study of more than 1,400 mothers and newborns has shown that antibodies can protect against the coronavirus in almost 90% of cases. Dr. Dustin Flannery, a neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, found that protective antibodies were transferred across the placenta in 72 out of 83 infected or previously infected pregnant women. The study, published […]
Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Holohan has expressed his sympathies and “huge regret” for the women victimised by the CervicalCheck scandal, but stopped short of offering an apology. “I certainly have huge regret about what’s happened to women in this situations,” he said, and that he “of course” had sympathy for those involved. “I do […]
Michael McNamara has hit out at RTÉ for “driving anxiety” and has claimed that NPHET is not taking full account of mental health considerations when considering lockdowns. Some of the mainstream media coverage of the Covid-19 crisis is adding to the high levels of stress and anxiety amongst the population he said. He also claimed […]
The big problem about writing about “period poverty”, as a man, is that, well, men don’t have periods. While some of us may, on occasion, have been deputised to purchase sanitary items for the women in our lives, we don’t need, or use them, ourselves. So the idea that period poverty is an all-pervasive issue […]
I wonder, you know, whether this is constitutional: “A spokesman for Mr Donnelly said gardaí now had the power to call to people’s homes to ensure they were quarantining but they could (not) enter the person’s home. Antoinette Cunningham, the general secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) said on Thursday evening […]
A newly commissioned Report by the Irish Refugee Council entitled ‘Implementing Alternatives to Direct Provision’ has recommended that regional ‘Accommodation Committees’ should be established to identify housing needs and commission accommodation throughout the state. The Refugee Council say that the Report aims to build on the recommendations of the Advisory Group Report published in […]
The Rural Independent Group of TDs have described the cabinet decision to “plough ahead with new legislation, banning oil and gas exploration, as utterly counterproductive”, claiming it to be a “groundless decision lacking any rational, scientific or evidence-based scrutiny”. The group warn of the impact on higher energy prices, with no reduction in greenhouse gas […]
As many as 54% of Irish people have said they have some privacy concerns about the covid tracker app, according to a survey conducted by the PRIVATT research project team. The survey, taken with a sample of 1,000 people across Ireland, reported that 13% of participants are “extremely concerned” about data privacy regarding the HSE’s […]
To be fair, “put us on the payroll” isn’t quite how the Irish Times Group phrased their submission to the Government’s “future of media” commission. But make no mistake, that’s exactly what the paper is asking for. Its submission, which can be read here, on the Irish Times website, calls for “a framework of financial […]
The worst bit about all of this, of course, is that we didn’t even get a link out of it. Like it would have killed the Deputy to send us a bit of traffic. Though, to be fair, the article in question did very well anyway: It’s a niche website & I’m not going to […]