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 petition calling for the resignation of the Director-General of the World Health Organisation [WHO], Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has now been been signed by over 500,000 people. Update: The petition has now been closed at 1,025,402 signatures. The petition was creating following criticism of the manner in which the WHO has dealt with the […]
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 […]
Dr. Gal Peleg, an Israeli doctor working in Italy’s coronavirus epicentre, has warned that many hospitals will no longer be giving respirators to anyone aged over sixty. Dr. Peleg who works in Parma, Italy, told Israeli Channel 12 news that respirator machines are in such limited supply that healthcare professionals need to strictly prioritise how […]
The Daily Wire, an American news site linked to Ben Shapiro, has released a devastating timeline highlighting the attempts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to cover up the COVID-19 oubreak. It details how the CCP tried to hid the existence of the virus through a combination of aggressive actions against their own citizens, destroying […]
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 […]
There’s a sense in the country, and in the wider world, at the moment, that this is the time for everyone to pull together, and that old divisions don’t really matter in the face of a genuinely existential threat to human life. In so far as possible, therefore, we’ve tried not to dole out any […]