With reports emerging in recent days of gangs of little hoodlums roaming the streets coughing in people’s faces as part of the so-called “Corona Challenge”, the Gardai are getting new equipment, according to the Daily Star’s crime correspondent, Michael O’Toole: @@gardainfo purchases 16,000 spit hoods to be distributed to officers around the State during #Covid19Ireland […]
We missed out, the other day, on an absolutely fascinating and contrarian report from the Financial Times, featuring a new Oxford University study that says, in effect, that the nations of the world might be engaged in a mass act of self harm….. for nothing: “The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people […]
One of the more inspiring things about moments like the present national crisis is watching the way people from all parts of society are willing to work together to solve big problems. For example, in the past few days, doctors and nurses across the country have been making it known that the biggest problem they […]
The Alzheimer Society of Ireland (ASI) says it is facing a sudden and severe shortfall in funding to provide vital supports for those with dementia as a result of the Coronavirus crisis. The organisation was forced to announce the postponement of its largest annual fundraising campaign Alzheimer’s Tea Day due to Covid-19 and has launched […]
UPDATE: Yasmin Noble has been found safe and well. Police would like to thank the public for their help in finding her. Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Yasmin Noble, 17 years of age, who is missing from Palmerstown, Dublin 20 since Monday 23th March, 2020. Yasmin was last seen […]
A general practitioner living in Dublin has accused the HSE of failing to acknowledge the alleged death of a healthcare worker due to the coronavirus outbreak in Ireland.
An incisive observation from Robert Burke on the twitter machine, here: https://twitter.com/robertburke84/status/1242750630592229376 He’s both right that the Irish Government has done a complete one hundred and eighty degree u-turn on testing in the space of seven days, and that the rest of the media seems unwilling to question it. More on the latter point in […]
Healthcare workers have taken to social media to issue a plea for protective clothing as they fight the coronavirus. The HSE admitted yesterday that that its stock of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers are “low”, and last weekend a report in the Sunday Business Post revealed that Dr Dónal O’Hanlon wrote to the Minister on behalf […]
It is hoped that supermarkets will also prioritize Irish produce, with Murphy saying they will have to “don their green jerseys and sell it.”
The Irish Independent has reported that as many as 65 young Irish medical doctors working in Perth, Australia, have now quit their jobs to return to Ireland and help with the covid-19 crisis. Notably, the Independent spoke to 27-year-old Dublin-born Dr. Zoe Lynch, who claimed that her group was eager to return and help alleviate […]
Let’s take a break from Coronavirus for a moment to examine one of the most inexplicable Irish Times headlines in recent times: https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1242131251584102402 If there’s one thing the Irish Times is good at, it’s lecturing the rest of us about what words to use and what you are, and are not, allowed to say. […]
One of the most prominent civil figure in the north of Ireland has called for abortion legislation not to proceed while everyone is pre-occupied with the Coronavirus crisis. Baroness Nuala O’Loan, who was the first Police Ombudsman for the region from 1999 to 2007, says that the British government “should not proceed at this time […]