The seven-day average of total vaccine doses administered has increased slightly to 25,956, after having fallen to an all-time low of 24,796 yesterday. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 35% since the 9th of February. Between Monday the 8th and Sunday the 14th of February, the last day we […]
“Endless Russophobia”, she says, stalks the halls of the European Parliament in Brussels. More on that in a moment. But first, watch the whole thing, and pay close attention to what she says about Putin’s recently imprisoned political foe, Alexei Navalny: Is Navalny, as she says, a “vicious, anti-immigrant, racist”? Well, on the […]
A bit of a hangover from yesterday, which we didn’t get around to, but worth writing about anyway. Honestly, Mary, you’d be so much happier if you just left the Church and became a Protestant. Or a Muslim. Or a Hindu. Literally anything really. Why is she doing this to herself? The Catholic Church’s failure […]
The bishop of Raphoe has said politicians are wrong to deem religious services “non-essential”.
A Dutch court has ruled to end a government-imposed covid-curfew, calling the restriction a “far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy”, and arguing that it curtailed Dutch citizens’ rights to demonstrate and freely assemble. The court said in a statement that “the curfew must be lifted immediately” and claimed that through […]
369 elderly people died in Irish nursing homes in January, bringing the total number of nursing homes deaths since the outbreak to over 1,500.
The 7 day average of total vaccine doses administered has now fallen to 24,612, the lowest level recorded since the HSE started releasing daily vaccination numbers. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by nearly 40% since the 9th of February. Between Sunday the 7th and Saturday the 13th of February, the last day […]
As many as 23 of Berlin’s new “green” electric buses stopped running during the recent cold snap and had to be replaced with diesel alternatives, German media has reported. According to the Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin’s main public transport operator, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), last week’s low temperatures caused problems with the electric vehicles batteries, with […]
Leading medical experts have been joined by many of the country’s top professional medical bodies in opposing a bill which seeks to legalise Assisted Suicide in Ireland. They warned that the bill was “deeply flawed” and left people at “significant risk”. Submissions from medical professionals made to the Justice Committee on a bill proposed by […]
If there is a word to sum up the political zeitgeist in Ireland over the past decade, it must surely be “compassion”. The 2010’s were the decade when official Ireland set out, flanked by an armada of well-funded NGO’s and supported by a media thirsty for change, to right the wrongs of the past. In […]
Some 26,238 vaccines have been administered in the Republic over the last 7 days, but the average number of doses per day has fallen sharply, and our vaccination rate compares unfavourably with Northern Ireland. Between Saturday the 6th and Friday the 12th of February, the last day we have data for, 26,238 doses of vaccine […]
A fascinating clip from the United States, over the weekend, which should raise real questions about the management of Covid in Irish nursing homes: https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1360982497769775104 In Florida, says that state’s Republican Governor (and, by the by, future Presidential candidate), Ron DeSantis, the medical experts told him that if he kept patients from nursing homes in […]