The public health chief said that might not happen before autumn, when vaccination rates are high enough to create herd immunity.
“I do actually find it inexcusable that staff on nursing homes or those roles would not take the vaccine, to be frank.”
Prof. Luke O’Neill told RTÉ viewers that plastic bubbles could allow people to attend gigs again, after a Flaming Lips concert took place with the audience standing in zorbs.
It’s fair to say that there is a significant cohort of the population who have, shall we say, some suspicions about the various vaccines for Covid-19, and their true purpose. If you’re in that cohort, then there’s little enough that’s likely to convince you. But let me offer you an argument anyway: If there was […]
According to the Financial Services Union (FSU), recent meetings with Ulster Bank have been “difficult and deeply troubling”, with a growing threat of the bank being closed or carved up. John O’Connell, the FSU’s General Secretary, said that Ulster Bank CEO Jane Howard refused to answer any questions in private meetings about recent media reports, […]
Elon Musk’s car company Tesla has purchased 1.5bn dollars (or 1.2 billion euros) worth of Bitcoin, and plans to start accepting the cryptocurrency as payment for their products in future. This surge in interest caused the price of Bitcoin to spike 17% to $44,220 – a record high for the cryptocurrency. This comes mere days […]
The Gardai are very busy at the moment, of course, with Covid 19 duties meaning that their force is spread thin across the country stopping people in their cars to ask them where they are going, as well as fining people at the airports, and on the beaches, and just about anywhere else you can […]
Every single Irish rugby player refused to “take the knee” for Black Lives Matter during Sunday’s match against Wales at the Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Before the match began for the Six Nations’ first round, an “anti-racism” message was played over the pitch. Since the Black Lives Matter movement gained mainstream traction last year, many athletes […]
Births in Italy in December fell by a massive 21.6%, as experts predict a “baby bust” because of the effects of the Covid lockdown. The decline in births was announced by Italian statistics agency ISTAT, who sampled numbers from 15 Italian cities to make their findings. The news will add to Italy’s demographic woes with […]
Campbell had written on Facebook that he could not imagine the BBC allowing an all-white line-up on Songs of Praise.
The Irish College of GPs (ICCP) has amended its newly published transgender heath guidelines to remove statements which said that puberty blockers were “reversible”, and that oestrogen and testosterone therapies were “partially reversible”. The report now says that “There is limited research evidence available regarding the long-term effects of hormone and puberty blockers in children […]
One of the odd things about Irish politics is that what one might call the soft left – the sort of people who believe passionately in things like social justice, and liberal causes, and climate change – have not one, not two, but three political parties, all of whom believe basically the same things. On […]