Daily vaccination numbers have decreased sharply since Wednesday of last week, the 17th, with the daily number of vaccine doses administered now having fallen from 16,747 to 4,424. The previous Monday, the 15th, had seen 8,165 doses administered. Between Tuesday the 16th and Monday the 22th of February, the last day we have data for, […]
A Derry Councillor has slammed People Before Profit representative, Eamonn McCann for bringing “another” motion pushing abortion before the Council at a time when people are suffering during the Covid lockdown. Aontú Councillor, Emmet Doyle, said that the PBP was seeking to “continuously bring our focus to death” at a time when the people were dealing […]
NPHET has said that vaccines are unlikely to eliminate the virus, and that covid-19 will probably be with us for years to come. “Eliminating the virus or reaching herd immunity from vaccination alone is unlikely to be possible,” the group said, referring to the long-term trajectory of covid-19 and “future pandemics.” “It would require very […]
Cuomo allegedly suggested they play “strip poker”.
A barrister who has been outspoken in opposition to the Covid-19 lockdown has been bumped off a major Tribunal by Justice Minister, Helen McEntee. Senior counsel Úna McGurk was, until yesterday, a member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (Ipat) which reviews refugee applications and makes decisions on whether applicants are entitled to asylum in the […]
The Donegal gym owner was asked to open by numerous clients.
A homeless man in Cork has been fined €200 for “hopping into a Garda car” on a cold night in Cork last month.
A notable tweet here, and from a notable source: Marc MacSharry would not, it’s fair to say, be known as a member of the vanishingly small west-brit wing of Fianna Fáil. If someone like him is urging the country to go cap in hand to the hated blonde ruffian in downing street asking for aid, […]
The WHO is against the measure, for now.
Since they were founded last Autumn, the ISAG “Zero Covid” group have enjoyed a warm and friendly relationship with the Irish media. They’ve had several advantages in that endeavour – in the beginning, the Trinity College Press Office, with its extensive folder of press contacts, would send out press releases for them. Later, they engaged […]
Ireland is currently under one of the most restrictive covid-19 lockdowns in the world, and the worst in Europe, according to analysis by Oxford University. Ireland’s Level 5 restrictions ranked near the top of the global “stringency index” which has been developed by the university, and which records the strictness of lockdown policies across more […]
Israel has passed a law allowing the names of unvaccinated people to be shared among government agencies. The new law will give the ministries of education, welfare and local governments access to the names in order to “enable these bodies to encourage people to vaccinate by personally addressing them”, according to the parliament. One third […]