Kerry TD, Danny Healy-Rae has an interesting proposal for people who are failing to isolate after returning to Ireland from abroad. Last week, it was revealed that over a third of passengers arriving Dublin Airport in a six-day period did not fill out a form confirming where they would be staying in Ireland – and […]
The German Newspaper Der Spiegel, renowned for its world-class fact-checking, has reported that Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, believes that Xi Jinping, leader of China’s Communist Party [CCP], personally asked the head of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, to “hold back” information on human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 and to delay declaring that the […]
That’s all we need now, our old friends the Banks coming with the begging bowl. Which they will be, if things continue in this vein: Bank of Ireland slid into a loss in the first quarter as the Covid-19 crisis led to the group taking a €266 million loan impairment charge and racking up an additional […]
According to the HSE, all screening for Breast and Cervical Cancers was suspended because of the Coronavirus on March 30th. That’s five weeks ago. In Ireland, there are approximately 3,100 new cases of Breast cancer every single year. Using simple maths, therefore, you would expect there to be something like 62 new cases of Breast […]
Leading pro-life group, Precious Life, have today welcomed the British government’s withdrawal of radical abortion regulations for Northern Ireland. The British Government last night (Thursday 7th May) withdrew the hugely controversial regulations for Northern Ireland before they could be put to the vote in Parliament next week. It means that the abortion regulations put forward by […]
The number of burglaries in March plummeted by 30% due to the coronavirus lockdown, the Gardai have said, even though the restrictions were only introduced halfway during the month. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, in his monthly report to the Policing Authority, also said sexual crimes were down, and that the number of crimes reported in March […]
There’s a very simple solution to this problem, of course. If someone won’t tell the authorities where they’re going to be staying for the next few weeks, the state should flip the table and tell them where they’ll be staying for the next few weeks: Arbour Hill Prison. Or, if you’re not an authoritarian right […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has stated that “one of the most frustrating aspects of the Covid-19 Crisis is the fact that the government is only using a fraction of the available capacity to fight the virus”. He also said that despite the scale of the crisis in health and the economy, the HSE undertaken […]
A Consultant Surgeon has said that it is “without question” that an increase in non-Covid deaths will arise as people are no longer able to access healthcare services during the pandemic. Professor Michael O’Keefe, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital and Beacon Hospital, was asked by Ivan Yates on VMTV last night if […]
Something you don’t see every day: A politician who was explicitly defenestrated by the voters from her seat in the Dáil, back in the chamber just a few weeks later, taking questions like nothing had happened: Here’s something you don’t see every day – a non-TD taking questions in the Dáil. Katherine Zappone presenting this […]
A stunning graph this, courtesy of US company Kinsa: The blue line in that graph represents people with a temperature in New York City. The red line is deaths in New York City. If you take the temperatures, and shift them 18 days to the right, they line up perfectly with the deaths. In other […]
Traditional singers and musicians have being paying their respects online and by lining the streets of her native town as much-loved singer Nora Butler Swan was laid to rest in Nenagh today. Because of covid-19 restrictions, the renowned traditional singer was laid to rest after a private mass, but her many friends said that “thousands were […]