Earlier today the alcoholic drink makers Kopparberg and Grolsch both pulled their adverts from the newly launched GB News television station. The companies made the decision following a campaign, begun before GB News launched, which threatened to boycott all GB News advertisers. There have also been unconfirmed reports that a third company also pulled its […]
New footage surfaces.
The data is in, and it is overwhelmingly positive: NEWS — Our new analysis shows for the first time that two doses of the #COVID19 #vaccines are highly effective against hospitalisation from the #Delta (B.1.61.2) #variant. Read more: https://t.co/6z67CW85Zw pic.twitter.com/oyRFghHpXw — UK Health Security Agency (@UKHSA) June 14, 2021 Pfizer and Moderna – the MRNA […]
A map created by inviting home owners in Donegal to tag their houses has shown the shocking extent of homes affected by Mica. Highland Radio’s Greg Hughes said it was thought the map might only represent 10% of the houses crumbling with defective blocks. Ryan Stewart has created a map of homes in #Donegal affected my #mica. Home owners were […]
One of the subjects that is consistently absent from real debate in Ireland is the question of civil liberties, and the limits that should be placed on the power of the state. Yesterday, the Irish Government announced that it intends to make it an offence to refuse to provide the Gardai with the password to […]
NYT guilty of misinformation?
Aontú Candidate for the Dublin Bay South Bye Election, Mairead Tóibín has slammed the ongoing revelations about Government and Opposition parties conducting fake polls as evidence of a deep malaise in Irish politics. She said there was a that is rife in modern Irish politics, where citizens are seen as passive outsiders to be used […]
“No, I absolutely would not (take a knee”),” said the Chief Constable.
“I’m in a whale’s mouth and he’s trying to swallow me.”
“Our community is in a very tense situation at this moment in time.”
If you happen to have been reading, oh, literally any other Irish media outlet, except perhaps the Sunday Times, over the last week, you will have encountered one perspective, and one only, on the question of footballers “taking the knee” before the kick-off of their European Championship matches. It is, you have been endlessly told, […]
On Friday afternoon, the news broke that Stobart Air, the regional operator responsible for many flights between Ireland and the UK, was going out of business, becoming the highest profile business casualty of the pandemic to date. Naturally, opposition politicians took to the airwaves to blame the Government for not providing enough “supports” for the […]