A non-denominational Christian pastor has been given a prosecution notice and threatened with up to six months in prison by Gardaí for opening her church on Easter Sunday. Pastor Sharon Perry of the Abundant Grace Christian Assembly in Ringsend, Dublin, said her congregation were upset and anxious after Gardaí took action when she opened her […]
Two senior BBC Newsnight journalists have been accused of “killing children” after they reported on an NHS commissioned report which found the evidence for using puberty blockers on children was of low quality and unreliable. https://twitter.com/TransportBeyond/status/1378326217565339649 Last week the BBC published an article, written by health correspondent Deborah Cohen and senior reporter Hannah Barnes, which […]
One thing that has genuinely been remarkable to witness over the course of Ireland’s covid journey is how the comparisons between Ireland and the UK in the Irish media have…… sort of disappeared? You will recall, of course, that in the early days of the pandemic, Irish journalists and political types could not stop comparing […]
On March 10th, four weeks ago tomorrow, the State of Texas in the United States ended all Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. By all, we mean just that: All. No masks. No restrictions on travel. No limits on opening businesses or gathering indoors. No laws against religious worship, or going to the beach. All restrictions in Texas […]
“Everyone will be able to take a free rapid coronavirus test twice a week from the 9th April.”
The president of the GAA has said vaccine passports might be needed to allow crowds attend matches in the near future.
An interesting move, on a number of levels: We are delighted to announce that @colettebrowne will be joining the #SocDems as our Communications Director pic.twitter.com/1fZpWA4cOE — Social Democrats (@SocDems) April 2, 2021 On one level, it’s a really excellent career move by Browne. The Soc Dems are, for better or ill (let’s face it: ill) a party on the […]
Rarely has a news story been more perfectly calibrated to appeal to the various prejudices of Ireland’s media class than the news this weekend that two young women had absconded from their mandatory appointments with two-week detention, having returned from Dubai, where they had gone to have cosmetic surgery. The women in question, we are […]
Dublin’s O’Connell Street locked down on Easter Sunday Photo credit: Krzysztof M
A new review of the evidence behind administering puberty blockers to children has said that the evidence available regarding “the clinical effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness” of administering puberty blockers to children, and adolescents aged 18 years or younger, is “of very low certainty.” All the studies considered by the review were deemed to “lack reasonable […]
Good Friday Procession in the Phoneix Park Photo credit: Krzysztof M
A Campaigner and former councillor has said that an anti-lockdown event planned for Easter Saturday will go ahead despite his arrest at a protest yesterday in Cork city centre. Diarmaid Ó Cadhla was one of three men arrested on St Patrick’s Bridge yesterday afternoon while holding banner saying “No to Lockdown”. They were taken to […]