An anti-lockdown activist who refused to wear a face mask on a Bus Éireann has been sentenced to two months in prison.
Chanting “Get out” and “We will not comply”, the business owners cheered when the police and health officials eventually left the gym where the meeting was taking place.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it will be “a different Christmas” in Ireland this year, but not to expect any visits from the Gardaí over the festive period.
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has said scientists working on the pandemic “haven’t got good evidence” to justify imposing the new lockdown measures on places of worship.
A priest addressed a group gathered to pray in the Phoenix Park last night as pressure grows on the government to lift a ban on public Masses.
Minister English will take a while to live this one down.
Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules according to police chiefs in the UK.
The continued spectre of ordinary people feeling overwhelmed by fear cannot be allowed to persist, if only the gatekeepers of public information were to oblige.
Deputy Alan Farrell has taken to Twitter to denounce the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) media leaks that he alleges took place today.
“The timing of Dr. Nabarro’s statement is very appropriate, and hopefully it won’t be dismissed or discounted as NPHET and the government weigh up the current situation,” McGrath said.
The Dublin based Press Up group has written to government ministers claiming that there is “no empirical, objective and verifiable evidence” to justify the shut-down of their businesses.
The curve has well and truly been flattened in terms of hospitalizations, ICU referrals and deaths, with confirmed cases only rising now because of increased testing capacity.