Seven weeks ago, in early December, an Ireland Thinks poll for the Irish Daily Mail suggested that 70% of Irish people were eager to take the Covid Vaccine. Now, after three weeks of renewed lockdown, and a vaccination programme underway? That figure has surged to 86%: 🚨POLL🚨 Ireland Thinks / Mail on Sunday Q. Would […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that people could be forced to provide proof that they have had a covid-19 vaccine before they are allowed to get on a plane or enter a pub. When asked if he sees mandatory “vaccine passports” being brought in for people to travel abroad, go to the pub, or attend […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said there is widespread shock and anger at the sudden announcement by Bord Na MĂłna that it will permanently cease all peat harvesting and production. She said that the decision made “no sense .. given that solid fuels are now being imported into this country.” She said […]
Bloomberg.com has reported that 23 people have died in Norway a short time after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
In many ways, this is completely remarkable: NEW @ABC Wash Post poll: 54% say Pres Trump should be charged criminally with inciting a riot for having encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol. He’s leaving office with a 38% job approval rating; 60% disapproval More from @LangerResearch https://t.co/nSVXCDI1bs — Karen Travers (@karentravers) January 15, […]
Robert C. O’Brien, National Security Advisor to President Trump, has declassified a strategic document, the “U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific” 20 years early. The document sets out the Trump Administration’s high-level objectives and concerns in the Indo-Pacific region. The document is largely concerned with China, saying America needs to prevent China from “establishing new, […]
A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.
Good news from Fine Gael, everybody: Ireland is presently coming second in a snail race: It's official: Ireland is the 2nd HIGHEST in the European Union for #Covid19 vaccinations. Thank you to all the amazing frontline workers who are making this happen. pic.twitter.com/WNKOhs0nkl — Fine Gael (@FineGael) January 14, 2021 To get to the ranking […]
Parler, a social media platform which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, has urged the U.S. Western District Court to order Amazon to restore its service online. Parler also accused Amazon of being “motivated by political animus” and of acting “to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter”. Amazon Web […]
Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest recorded animal cave painting yet discovered, depicting a wild pig, believed to have been drawn over 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. Painted with dark red ochre in the Leang Tedongnge cave in a remote valley on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the image is of an almost life-sized representation […]
With the noose of tech censorship rapidly tightening across the world, everyone remotely critical of wokeness is being banned, and, if the President of the United States himself being digitally taken down is anything to go by, it appears that nobody is truly safe. Here’s a quick guide to some of the more secure, free […]