The EU has not renewed its order for AstraZeneca covid-19 jabs, according to a bloc commissioner. “We have not renewed the order for after June,” said Thierry Breton, the EU’s Internal Market Commissioner, in an interview with French radio station France Inter. “We will see what happens next,” he added. This development came shortly after […]
My colleague Gary Kavanagh made an observation last night which will stick with me for some time: The great trick of Irish policymakers, he said, has been to convince people that the consequences of their decisions are in fact the consequences of Covid, and that there was never any other way. No matter what happens, […]
A UK Labour Party councillor who lost his seat in the recent local elections has said that the voters “let down” his party. Chris Emmas-Williams, who for 35 years until this weekend served on Derbyshire’s Amber Valley council, spoke following a crushing electoral defeat to the UK Conservative Party. “It’s been a disastrous day for […]
We will put this in the category of “darkly amusing”: https://twitter.com/CloHiggins/status/1391083611860967426 You might wonder why a “wheelchair friendly” park bench is something that anybody would bother to invent. After all, people in wheelchairs – not through choice, of course – are not lacking for somewhere to sit down. Life has forced them to take a […]
A Trinity College study published today has found that found that people who are homeless can experince accelerated physical ageing – with homeless people aged between 20 and 40 having the same physical mobility as 70 to 80 year olds. The research demonstrates an extremely high burden of physical and mobility problems experienced by people […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has expressed support for lowering the age limit for the Johnson and Johnson covid-19 vaccine, to ensure that there are no excess vaccines left over after the rollout is done. While the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) had previously advised that the J&J and AstraZeneca jabs not be given to people under […]
The group estimates that 100 million cancer screenings were not performed during the outbreak and will lead to decreased survival rates for those whose cancer is found at a later stage than normal.
Although falling just short of securing a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has insisted that holding a vote on independence from the UK is the “will of the people”.
Philip Nolan, President of NUI Maynooth and Chair of NPHET’s modelling group, has been told by a Harvard academic that he does not “appear to know what you are talking about,” and that he should be “ashamed” of his stance on rapid antigen testing. Michael Mina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard’s School of Public […]
A newly-discovered ant species in Ecuador has been given the gender-neutral suffix “-they” rather than a traditional Latin scientific suffix, and has been named after a gay activist and protégé of Andy Warhol, despite the ant not being non-binary and having only the normal genders of male and female. The ant was discovered in 2018 […]
The ex-Irish soldier and bride of an ISIS jihadist, whose father in from Belfast, was banned from entering the UK amid security mesures that allow for the exclusion of EEA nationals.
O’Connell said she would not be leaving the party because of “one person”, however.