Ireland’s vaccination numbers continue to rise with 71,730 vaccines administered between Saturday the 13th and Friday the 19th of February – the last day we have data for. 36,267 of those were first doses, with 35,463 being second doses. The average number of doses administered per day has nearly doubled since the it first became […]
These are tough times for everybody in Ireland, and indeed, in many countries around the world. Many businesses are shuttered. Many people, having seen their jobs rendered too dangerous by covid legislation, are not working, and are on income supports. Governments themselves, in fact, are having a tough time of it: With the collapse in […]
Justice Minister Helen McEntee has ruled out the idea of making treatment programmes for prison sex offenders mandatory, despite previously supporting sexual consent classes for primary school students. According to the Irish Prison Service, just one out of eight (12.5%) jailed sex offenders avail of the Irish prison service’s treatment programme. From 2016 to the […]
Whatsapp groups have, for many people, been a vital social outlet during the long months of the Covid era. One of mine is quite eclectic: There’s a Corkonian, a Galwegian, a Cavanman, and various Dubs. So it was interesting to see the Cavan man – an avid walker – start a conversation over the weekend […]
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster has said that the DUP will be launching a legal challenge to the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU-UK Brexit deal. The North’s First Minister said that she would be joining ranks with “like-minded” unionists, including Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib, Labour party’s Kate Hoey, and Jim Allister, for […]
The world’s wealthiest countries are monopolising over half of the current and projected supply of vaccines, leaving poorer countries struggling to acquire their own batches, an anti-poverty report found on Friday. 10 wealthy countries so far have administered 75% of the world’s covid vaccines, while 130 nations globally have yet to receive a single jab. […]
On Friday, the government, after a week of confused and mixed messaging, announced another nine weeks of a level 5 lockdown. One man’s frustrated reaction has gone viral, with his video message racked up more than 800,000 views in a couple of days. Gary Dempsey is a former professional footballer who has played for Aberdeen and Dunfermline. […]
“It will be slow, we’ll be cautious, because we have to monitor the effect on the virus,” he said.
An investigative reporting team at Italy’s national broadcaster RAI yesterday released the full text of the contract between AstraZeneca and the EU. A partially redacted version of the contract was released by the European Commission in January, and that release revealed more of the contract than intended after the Commission failed to redact the document […]
The numbers of doses of vaccines being administered daily has continued to rise, with 50,960 doses having been administered over the last seven days. The average number of doses administered per day is the highest we have seen since the HSE started releasing daily information. Between Thursday the 11th and Wednesday the 17th of February, […]
Wifried Zaha said taking the knee before matches was “degrading”.
Internal WhatsApp and Signal messages seen by Gript show that prominent members of the increasingly influential “Zero Covid” campaign group – officially known as the Independent Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) – privately believe that the group may not be able to fully stand over some of the promises and statements they have made to the […]