The number of vaccines administered this week, to date, is lower than we have seen in the previous two weeks. The current rate of administration means it is highly unlikely that we will hit the Government’s vaccination target for March. The Government has said that they will aim to administer 84,000 doses next week. Hitting […]
HSE welcomes the news as a “great sign”.
The Archdiocese of Dublin joined with Gardaí in pressing for an end to priests giving Holy Communion to parishioners after Mass.
Calling for an end to “acts of violence and extremism, factions and intolerance”, the pope remarked on the “age-old presence of Christians in this land, and their contributions to the life of the nation.”
Yesterday Gript reported that the International Fact-Checking Network, the IFCN, had told Gript that some of the fact-checking material published by the Journal.ie did not meet their requirements to be considered fact-checking but was instead “non-fact-checking content.” You can read more on that story HERE. The IFCN accredits the Journal as a fact-checker and their […]
Gardaí have stated that organisers of tomorrow’s anti-lockdown rally in Cork, which is headed by a Socialist anti-water charges campaigner, could face a criminal investigation if the protest takes place as planned. However, organisers of the demonstration were defiant ahead of the event, saying that they had a constitutional right to protest despite the restrictions. […]
At current trends the Government is likely to miss, by a substantial margin, its target of administering 1.25 million doses of vaccines by the 31st of March. We had administered, as of the 2nd of March, 460,640 doses. Hitting this target would require us to administer 789,360 doses over a 29-day period, a rate of […]
Confiscation is not the official term, of course, but what’s a better word for this carry on? PARENTS WHO HAD to submit their own passports as part of the application for their child to get a passport may have to wait as long as six months to receive their own back. Furthermore, anyone who had […]
Umbrella NGO Le Cheile has retweeted a Twitter post calling to “gather forces now” and sweep anti-lockdown protesters “off the streets when the time comes.” Le Chéile, an umbrella organisation for a range of taxpayer funded NGOs and leftwing political movements, which describes itself as “a cross-sectoral alliance working together to challenge the far right […]
Yesterday, we reported that Texas became the first US state to lift all Coronavirus restrictions, including – controversially – the statewide facemask mandate. From today, Texans are free to go about living their lives just like they did when the Coronavirus was still a twinkle in the eye of an imprisoned, and illegally captured, pangolin […]
Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned that tax increases are “very likely” after the covid-19 pandemic, in a total contradiction of what Táinaiste Leo Varadkar said just 2 weeks before. Speaking on Thursday the 4th of March at an ESRI event, Donohoe stated that the government would be moving to reduce the budget […]
The HSE has confirmed that it will continue to facilitate medical interventions for children who are seeking to change their sex, despite the landmark Tavistock ruling in the United Kingdom which found that it was “highly unlikely” that children under 16 would be able to provide fully informed consent to the procedures involved. Tavistock is […]