It’s quite extraordinary, when you put it all in one place, how incompetent the Irish Government has been in relation to the management of the threat Coronavirus poses to nursing homes. At the time of writing, there are around 214 so-called “clusters” of cases in Irish nursing homes, out of 268 nursing homes in total. […]
A heartwarming video showing a Donegal grandad who beat COVID-19 returning home on Good Friday to huge applause from the neighbours has gone viral. “The prayers worked,” a smiling Dónal Bradley told his neighbours from a safe distance. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” “I’m as weak as water,” he said. “But I’ll be […]
A company developing cell therapy products says that six patients who were at ‘high risk’ of dying from COVID-19 were treated with a new therapy and all survived. According to the Jerusalem Post, Israeli company Pluristem Therapeutics says the preliminary data shows promise for the experimental treatment for the coronavirus. Pluristem reported that it had provided six […]
An interesting little addendum to the story this morning about Ireland being the tenth worst country in the world for Coronavirus deaths per million people: All of the ten countries that head that list, Ireland, and the nine worse than us, are in the European Union. You have to get to 11th on the list, […]
A former Amnesty International Research Consultant, Hind Khoudary, has come under fire after apparently causing the arrest of a Palestinian peace activist by Hamas. Rami Aman, the activist in question, is one of the organisers of an event called “Skype With Your Enemy”, which sets up video calls between Palestinian and Israelis in an attempt […]
Ireland is, both in population and land mass, a tiny country. As a result, the total number of daily deaths from Covid 19 in Ireland is unlikely – barring absolute catastrophe – ever to hit the horrifying four-figure numbers we’re getting close to seeing in the UK, and the USA, and Spain and Italy. Add […]
Dr Anne McCloskey says on-demand abortion legal with support of SF and SDLP
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, Carol Nolan, has said that concerns around a possible influx of tourists coming in through the country’s ports and airports must be addressed as a matter of urgency.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday announced that they will be sending 6 million medical masks to foreign countries as part of an international humanitarian assistance package. The masks will be shipped to the EU, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean, and other nations who have friendly relations with Taiwan. 10 million medical […]
Coronavirus is starting to look more and more like the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Just when you think you’ve smashed it and it’s now a puddle on the ground, it starts re-forming and coming back more determined than ever: The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to […]
What’s interesting about this is that usually when countries spend great wads of cash to stop their companies from manufacturing things overseas, it’s in order to move that production – and the jobs – back to the home country for political benefit. But not in this case. No, Japan doesn’t seem to much care where […]
An interesting report in the Examiner the other day that, with all the Coronavirus news, got a little bit overlooked. But it’s genuinely surprising that it’s taken this long for something like this to be floated: A number of Fine Gael ministers do not believe a government can be formed and that a second general […]