Residents of Blanchardstown and other parts of north county Dublin say they have endured 24 hours of violence and intimidation following the death of George Nkencho, an African man who was shot by Gardai after he attacked staff at a Eurospar armed with a knife. According to eyewitnesses, Mr Nkencho punched a manager in the store, […]
A study of almost 10 million people in Wuhan, China, has found “no evidence of asymptomatic transmission” according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. “A mass screening programme of more than 10 million residents of Wuhan, China, performed after SARS-CoV-2 was brought under control, has identified 300 asymptomatic cases of covid-19, none of […]
A Chinese citizen journalist has been jailed for four years because she reported what she saw in the crowded hospitals of Wuhan when the coronavirus first impacted the city. Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty in the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” because she criticised the Chinese’s government’s […]
Mass-goers in Limerick prayed outside a city-centre church this morning after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect yesterday.
Catholics in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal prayed outside their cathedral after the government-imposed closure of religious services took effect this morning.
The European Commission has agreed to give Estonian national robotics company Milrem almost €36 million in grant money to create a new standard for unmanned military ground vehicles, the company has announced. The deal, which was signed earlier this month, is set to develop a new generation of battlefield robots. Known as Integrated Modular Unmanned […]
A bit of twitter bait here from the Brazilian Foreign Minister: The pandemic must not lead to totalitarian social control or the abrogation of fundamental freedoms. Freedom is foundational to the UN and essential to human dignity. Brazil🇧🇷 stands for freedom. No to the “Great Reset” My speech at UN session on Covid:https://t.co/mrxDVKXCSa pic.twitter.com/nxrEagxeEq — […]
Charlie McConalogue tested positive for Covid-19 this morning after a recent trip to Brussels.
The Iraqi parliament has unanimously voted to make Christmas Day an official state holiday.
The Rural Independents Group has said that “the lack of a plan” in regard to Covid-19 “has left Ireland facing the toughest Christmas in living memory”. Speaking this morning, the leader of the Rural Independent Group, Deputy Mattie Mc Grath said: “My colleagues and I in the Rural Independent Group have spent the last nine […]
There’s “shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted”, and then, of course, there’s Irish Government advice, which could best be described as “locking Shergar’s stable door tomorrow, in case he’s stolen”. Like, this is quite incredible: THE HSE HAS issued updated advice for anyone who has arrived in Ireland from Britain since 8 […]
As pubs, hairdressers, beauty salons and restaurants prepare to close tomorrow afternoon, they are among a range of businesses and organizations that might not be allowed to reopen until March according to Leo Varadkar.