Seven weeks ago, in early December, an Ireland Thinks poll for the Irish Daily Mail suggested that 70% of Irish people were eager to take the Covid Vaccine. Now, after three weeks of renewed lockdown, and a vaccination programme underway? That figure has surged to 86%: 🚨POLL🚨 Ireland Thinks / Mail on Sunday Q. Would […]
The controversial – some would say deeply suspicious –  World Economic Forum which readers may be familiar with as the promoter of the “Great Reset” which would entail the radical overhauling of the global economic system, continues to pump up the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. The BRI is a massive programme of investment which was […]
A Swiss campaign group has gathered enough signatures to trigger a referendum on Covid-19 restrictions in the country. The Friends of the Constitution organisation collected 86,000 signatures which sparked a legal procedure under Swiss law to initiate a national vote on whether or not to repeal the 2020 Covid-19 Act. Switzerland has an usually devolved democratic system […]
Good news from Fine Gael, everybody: Ireland is presently coming second in a snail race: It's official: Ireland is the 2nd HIGHEST in the European Union for #Covid19 vaccinations. Thank you to all the amazing frontline workers who are making this happen. pic.twitter.com/WNKOhs0nkl — Fine Gael (@FineGael) January 14, 2021 To get to the ranking […]
Results from clinical trials of two anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat Covid-19 show that the treatment reduced the death rate and boosted recovery. The two drugs, called tocilizumab and sarilumab, are currently prescribed to reduce inflammation in patients who suffer with arthritis. Patients inflicted with Covid-19 often die as a result of hyper-inflammation, where the […]
Paul Murphy TD has been remarkably consistent in demanding more and more Covid restrictions. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday, he approvingly retweeted an Irish Times article which described him as “the Dáil’s most consistent advocate of a zero covid strategy”. Here he is, basking in the acclaim, and criticising the Government for […]
The concerning thing here is not the number of people in hospital, actually. 1,100 patients is a lot, but a modern first world health service should be able to cope with that. No, the concerning thing is this graph: 151 admissions in the past 24 hours, and the rate increasing at more than 100 a […]
At approximately this time yesterday morning, the question of “what to do about the schools” was remarkably uncontroversial, as these things go. In the face of an explosion in the number of cases, hospital admissions, and ICU admissions on foot of covid, the country had basically made peace with the fact that schools would not […]
Barring some extraordinary reversal of the mood music in recent days, the Government will formally decide later today to close primary and secondary schools across Ireland until at least the end of January. The earliest possible date for school re-opening, then, is Monday February 1st. This would mean that three and a half weeks (including […]
 Introducing episode one of “Covid: Against the Tide”, a series looking at the unique challenges faced by Ireland’s SME sector over the past year, and into 2021. In partnership with ISME and the Edmund Burke Institute: 2020 has been an absolutely devastating year for small businesses all across Ireland. COVID-19, and the Government’s response to […]
A bit of twitter bait here from the Brazilian Foreign Minister: The pandemic must not lead to totalitarian social control or the abrogation of fundamental freedoms. Freedom is foundational to the UN and essential to human dignity. Brazil🇧🇷 stands for freedom. No to the “Great Reset” My speech at UN session on Covid:https://t.co/mrxDVKXCSa pic.twitter.com/nxrEagxeEq — […]
The HSE and the Government provide details of the daily number of confirmed Covid patients in hospitals as well as the number admitted and discharged in the previous 24 hours. The daily data for these measures are available to view at their website[1] since mid-March to early April. I speculated that the admissions and discharge […]