An interesting, even fun, conundrum for us all to ponder while we spend our days in Coronavirus induced isolation – is this card received by Newstalk’s Dr. Ciara Kelly yesterday creepy and sinister, or well-intentioned and nice? Is she over-reacting absurdly, or is she right to be a bit perturbed? https://twitter.com/ciarakellydoc/status/1237746828264771584 Let’s consider the evidence. […]
An interesting email into us yesterday from Hermann Kelly, leader of the Irish Freedom Party, raised the question of why the Taoiseach and the Government appear to be persistently providing false information about the amount of money the Government sends to the EU annually. Speaking in Trinity College last week, the Taoiseach gave his usual […]
A High Court judge has been criticised by protesters after they alleged that she threatened to involve “outside agencies” relating to their children during a hearing into a housing case. The case involved a building firm which has taken a High Court proceeding against protestors involved with the ongoing “House the Irish First” demonstration in […]
The lady is thought to have been an older person and was being treated in hospital.
New audio has emerged which seems to reveal a high-ranking member of the Union of Students Ireland (USI) expressing support for bugging a Young Fine Gael student meeting. The USI, which claims to be a representative body for 374,000 students across Ireland, has since announced an investigation into Michelle Byrne, the Union’s Deputy President, as […]
The Office of the Ombudsman for Children spent over seven hundred thousand euros on “Office Administration”, and a further quarter million euros on “Seminars and Publications” in 2017 and 2018, despite having only 20 employees, writes David Mullins: The Office of the Ombudsman for Children (OCO) does valuable, necessary work. Indeed, the Ombudsman, Niall Muldoon, […]
One of the country’s leading medical experts has said that Ireland needs to “adopt the extreme measures now” or risk facing the “horrific” situation the Coronavirus has created in Italy. On the Virgin Media Tonight Show last night Professor John Crown, a well-known cancer specialist, answered “Yes” when asked if the country needed to “Close everything” and “Stop travel”. […]
MP Nadine Dorries in 2017 (Photo: Chris McAndrew/Parliament) Nadine Dorries, the British Junior Health Minister, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now in isolation. Ms Dorries released a statement confirming that she had tested positive for the virus, before going on to state that “Public Health England has started detailed contact tracing and the […]
There are days, watching the Irish Government’s response to Coronavirus, where you start to feel relatively confident in it for a while. Then something like this happens: Department of Health has said that general visiting restrictions that some hospitals & nursing homes have introduced, should be lifted. The National Public Health Emergency Team has not […]
Photo of USI Executive 2019-20. From: USI Facebook account Multiple members of the leadership of the Union of Students in Ireland [USI], which has an income of over €1 million a year and represents 374,000 third-level students, have been shown to have been in contact with, and in multiple cases offered to help, a group […]
Hong Kong Free Press reports that hundreds of Hong Kongers gathered last week in memorial of 22-year-old student protestor Alex Chow Tsz-lok, who died last November after falling one storey from a car park and sustaining fatal head injuries. It is believed by some that he was trying to evade police as they attempted to […]
It’s important to start this piece with the official advice: Buying overpriced facemasks probably isn’t going to save you from the Coronavirus, according to the experts: “It seems kind of intuitively obvious that if you put something—whether it’s a scarf or a mask—in front of your nose and mouth, that will filter out some of […]