Backlash.
The fourth season of the multiple award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale recently commenced on SBS. Loosely based (by this season, at least) on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, the series presents a dystopian picture of a country known as Gilead, based in the north-east of America and ruled by a patriarchal and totalitarian theocratic government. The premise is that […]
Scout leader pleaded guilty.
I had a lightbulb moment regarding the current thinking of NPHET the other day following two conversations with academics here and in the UK on the subject of vaccinating children against Coronavirus. You may have read my previous thoughts on vaccinating young people generally on this platform. Both of them make the same argument. We […]
Only 25 per cent of children were physically active every day.
Three years ago this week, those of us who voted for, and campaigned against, the abortion referendum, were on the wrong side of an electoral kicking. The voters, in their questionable wisdom, decided to vote for what the Yes campaign said would be a more compassionate Ireland for women. Many of our readers will regret […]
The Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Skjiilstra, visits Dublin today for discussions with his counterpart Simon Coveney, and with Tánaiste, Leo Varadker. The visit is part of the lead into to Hungary’s Presidency of the European Council, which begins at the end of the month. It comes at a time of epochal […]
Pleads not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
Parents of schoolchildren using the bus were sent a text by the company informing them that all children were obliged to wear masks from today.
Some of the UK’s top experts in child health have said that anxiety, self-harm and suicidal thoughts are at “frightening levels” among children because of the continued Covid-19 lockdown. Calling for teachers and school staff to be prioritised for vaccinations, the leading paediatricians said that the strict lockdown and prolonged school closures may cause children to […]
Aontú Leader & Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has called for the Government to enhance Covid-19 measures in Special Education Schools to facilitate these schools returning for the students who need them. He said that a survey of childcare professionals revealed that 74% of them saw regression in children with special needs during the lockdowns. After […]
2020 was a year of record population lows. Newly released Census Bureau population estimates show record lows in United States population growth, both in 2020 and for the entire 2010-to-2020 decade. California’s population shrank for the first time as far back as records go, with the Census Bureau estimates indicating that California’s population decreased by about 69,000 residents in […]