The seven-day average of vaccine doses administered is now 32,784. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 17% since the 9th of February, but is now trending upwards. Between Tuesday the 9th and Monday the 15th of February, the last day we have data for, 32,784 doses of vaccine were […]
My colleague Gary Kavanagh popped this into our Gript group chat yesterday evening with a three word comment that bears repeating – “Hearts and Minds”: It’s okay not to attend a wake, funeral service, burial or cremation these days because only 10 mourners are allowed due to COVID-19 restrictions. There are other ways to sympathise […]
Independent TD Noel Grealish and former Fianna Fáil TD Donie Cassidy are to appear before a Co. Galway district court.
RTÉ is reporting that the government has agreed to give Leaving Certificate students the option of a calculated grade or written exam in each subject. Minister for Education Norma Foley is set to announce a two-track Leaving Certificate exam process that will see students choose to receive a calculated grade or to do a written […]
The seven-day average of total vaccine doses administered has increased slightly to 25,956, after having fallen to an all-time low of 24,796 yesterday. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 35% since the 9th of February. Between Monday the 8th and Sunday the 14th of February, the last day we […]
“Endless Russophobia”, she says, stalks the halls of the European Parliament in Brussels. More on that in a moment. But first, watch the whole thing, and pay close attention to what she says about Putin’s recently imprisoned political foe, Alexei Navalny: Is Navalny, as she says, a “vicious, anti-immigrant, racist”? Well, on the […]
A bit of a hangover from yesterday, which we didn’t get around to, but worth writing about anyway. Honestly, Mary, you’d be so much happier if you just left the Church and became a Protestant. Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Literally anything really. Why is she doing this to herself? The Catholic Church’s failure […]
The bishop of Raphoe has said politicians are wrong to deem religious services “non-essential”.
369 elderly people died in Irish nursing homes in January, bringing the total number of nursing homes deaths since the outbreak to over 1,500.
The 7 day average of total vaccine doses administered has now fallen to 24,612, the lowest level recorded since the HSE started releasing daily vaccination numbers. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by nearly 40% since the 9th of February. Between Sunday the 7th and Saturday the 13th of February, the last day […]
Leading medical experts have been joined by many of the country’s top professional medical bodies in opposing a bill which seeks to legalise Assisted Suicide in Ireland. They warned that the bill was “deeply flawed” and left people at “significant risk”. Submissions from medical professionals made to the Justice Committee on a bill proposed by […]
If there is a word to sum up the political zeitgeist in Ireland over the past decade, it must surely be “compassion”. The 2010’s were the decade when official Ireland set out, flanked by an armada of well-funded NGO’s and supported by a media thirsty for change, to right the wrongs of the past. In […]