A top medical expert has said that the COVID-19 pandemic is “the biggest global healthcare crisis that we will encounter in our lifetime” and strongly urged the government to do more to address the crisis. Dr Carmen Regan, a maternal medicine Specialist, told Claire Byrne Live on RTE that Ireland “will be Italy if we do what […]
Aontú leader, Peadar Tóibín, had said the escalating COVID-19 crisis is a “national emergency” and called on the Dáil to reconvene to ensure measures are taking to deal with the fallout. “In my view we need to be 100% honest with people. We have a history of withholding information from people. Adults are entitled to […]
A feminist march for abortion marking International Women’s Day in Mexico city turned violent on Sunday, as protesters attacked churches and clashed with police.
To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
New results from a major international survey show that a big majority of women aged 18-50 with children under 18 years of age would prefer to work part-time if given the chance. The Iona Institute says the findings show that government policy must be fair to the child-care choices of all parents. The survey finds […]
An interesting report this morning from TheJournal.ie: THE NUMBER OF people deported from Ireland last year who were here illegally or who had failed in their asylum application rose significantly to 293. That was almost as many deportations as had taken place in the previous two years, when 140 (2017) and 163 (2018) people were […]
One of Fianna Fáil’s most senior politicians has called for all major parades for the St Patrick’s Day Festival to be cancelled given the current COVID-19 crisis. Éamon Ó Cuiv tweeted that “It seems strange that the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, and other major parades elsewhere in Ireland, would go ahead given the current […]
It’s very easy to write about how the Irish Government is bungling the Coronavirus crisis (for it is, now, a crisis) by not moving quickly enough to restrict public gatherings and enforce strict containment measures, and to list the many ways in which it is failing to do so. Primarily, it’s easy to write because […]
The Department of Health, and Minister Simon Harris, have so far failed to respond to questions put to them asking if they had put in place measures, recommended by the World Health Organisation [WHO], to minimise the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at an international event the Department is co-hosting next week. They have also […]
Things looked very bad for the old Arctic Sea Ice back in 2007. If you don’t remember, that was the year that Al Gore won the nobel prize for his important work in highlighting the plight of the poor Polar Bear, which was, he said, doomed to live in a virtually ice-free arctic circle by […]
A professor of immunology has called on the authorities to cancel the St Patrick’s Day festival, as cases of the coronavirus begin to climb in Ireland.
Cork University Hospital is effectively on lock down this evening, with notices outside the hospital saying an “infection outbreak” means strict visitor restrictions are in place.