This is actually like something from a Monty Python movie. You can imagine the scene, where the angry mob is looking for something to burn, or tear down, or stone to death, and fixates on an innocent statue. Only to find, a little later, that they had got the wrong target. Anyway, the Shelbourne has […]
The US government has officially offered a $5 million dollar (€4.2 million euro) reward for any information that leads to the capture of Communist rebel leader and drug-pusher Wilver Villegas Palomino. 38-year old Palomino, who US secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described as a “narcoterrorist”, has been accused of distributing cocaine in the US […]
The polling comes from ABC News, together with the Washington Post, and is very reputable. It’s more “eyebrow raising” than shocking in the case of Florida, but the Arizona numbers certainly justify the decision to break out the “Shock New Poll” headline: President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races […]
The Church of Saint Agata of Sicily in the Italian province of Caltanissetta has reportedly been vandalised for the second time in a month, with thieves causing serious damage to the church and scattering consecrated Eucharistic hosts on the ground. Vandals broke down the door in the middle of the night, and after breaking the […]
30 whales are said to be still alive, with focus now turning to saving as many of them possible.
Assange’s lawyers also listed at least ten times the whistleblower requested the Samaritan’s suicide hotline number between August and November 2019.
President Trump will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court on Saturday, at about 9pm Irish time. Officially, nobody knows who the nominee will be, but the betting markets, and smart pundits, are almost all agreed: It will be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, presently a Judge on the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals: […]
Important thing to note in this story: The word “controlled”: “Coronavirus should be let spread amongst people below 60 in a controlled way, the Dáil’s Covid-19 committee will be told on Wednesday. Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist Dr Johan Giesecke will recommend that the virus be let spread through the population alongside a programme that concentrates […]
Figures obtained by Independent TD, Carol Nolan, suggest that almost a thousand women changed their mind and did not proceed with abortion because the three day waiting period gave an opportunity for reflection.
The good news is that several potential coronavirus vaccines are at the “widespread human trial” stage. The bad news is that in the case of at least one of them, that trial is running into some trouble: Experts have been particularly concerned about AstraZeneca’s vaccine trials, which began in April in Britain, because of the […]
At first glance, these numbers might shock you. But there’s little reason to doubt them, for reasons we’ll come to in a moment: Research: 47% think the worst of the pandemic is ahead of us, the highest level reported since April 52% think there should be more restrictions, similar to the levels reported in March […]
A group of over 30 scientists, academics, and physicians have written to Boris Johnson asking that he reconsider the current approach to COVID-19, which the letter says “appears to be one of suppression of the virus, until such a time that a vaccine can be deployed.” This, according to the letter, is “increasingly unfeasible” and […]