Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has accused the government of adopting the most extreme policies in relation to Covid restrictions and called for common sense into the debate on hospitality reopening. The Aontú leader said that: “The Irish Government has taken the most extreme policies in relation to restrictions in all of Europe. Workplaces are […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea of mandatory vaccinations for all citizens, after already making vaccines mandatory for medical personnel. Speaking during a televised address to the French nation this week, Macron cited the Delta variant of Covid-19 as the reason for the move. The French government declared that all medical personnel in […]
Twelve per cent of those in rental accommodation spend more than half of their take-home income on rent, a new survey has found. Some tenants in the greater Dublin area are forking out a hefty 64% of net income on rent. The research from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) also found that half of tenants […]
Vaccine passports.
European regulators are now analysing data on rare cases of a neurological disorder which may have arisen among a small number of recipients of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after United States authorities added a warning label to the jab this week. The US Food and Drug Administration updated its warning labels for the J&J […]
1930s Germany.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar wrote to four of the world’s most powerful social media companies asking them to tackle the use of their platforms for the organisation of anti-lockdown protests, and what he termed misinformation. Investigator Ken Foxe said that the Fine Gael leader sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok after protests on the […]
A local council in the UK has been forced to apologise after a library booked a troupe including a monkey costume featuring a bare butt and a large fake penis for a children’s reading event. The Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge hired an actor in a rainbow-coloured monkey costume with a fake penis and nipples […]
An Irish MedTech company has announced a major European expansion which will see its treatment device being made available to more than 7 million tinnitus sufferers in the UK. Neuromod Devices Lts, which is based in Dublin, says it is in partnership with The Tinnitus Clinic and is launching a telemedicine service in UK – […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has urged President Michael D. Higgins not to sign the government’s proposed legislation on vaccine passes for the hospitality sector. Deputy Nolan was speaking after Cabinet signed off on the controversial proposals which will see access to indoor dining limited to those who can confirm they have been […]
Boris Johnson’s two chief scientific advisors, Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, were in front of the media yesterday to face a grilling on Johnson’s plans to fully re-open the UK next week. The assembled media (doing their job, to be fair) were very eager to poke holes in the plan, and extract quotes about […]
Some people, including many readers, will be downcast by this, or angry, or feel that their suspicions have been validated. Personally, though, it is not something that overly concerns me, for reasons set out below. If it is necessary, then sign me up: Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday […]