Ireland is, both in population and land mass, a tiny country. As a result, the total number of daily deaths from Covid 19 in Ireland is unlikely – barring absolute catastrophe – ever to hit the horrifying four-figure numbers we’re getting close to seeing in the UK, and the USA, and Spain and Italy. Add […]
People are thinking outside the box. We have time aplenty these days to think and to consider what we might like to take from ‘new normal’ when what we used to call normality resumes again. Some things about new normal feel more normal and more rational than old normal. Some things about old normal seem quite […]
WATCH: The State has overstepped the mark with threats of arrest, jail and fines, according to TIM JACKSON #gript
The Gardaí are struggling to walk the fine line as a result of the emergency regulations enacted by the Government. On the one hand, they are reassuring the public that resorting to arrest and sanction to deter people from breaking the restrictions on movement would be a last recourse and the hope would be that […]
Coronavirus is starting to look more and more like the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Just when you think you’ve smashed it and it’s now a puddle on the ground, it starts re-forming and coming back more determined than ever: The coronavirus may be “reactivating” in people who have been cured of the illness, according to […]
What’s interesting about this is that usually when countries spend great wads of cash to stop their companies from manufacturing things overseas, it’s in order to move that production – and the jobs – back to the home country for political benefit. But not in this case. No, Japan doesn’t seem to much care where […]
In her 2007 autobiography, Infidel: My Life, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells an interesting story about her experience when arriving to Holland at age 20 as a refugee from Somalia. The story is a poignant yet simple one. Ayaan was amazed by two features of daily life in Holland which are, to you and me, things […]
A disability rights group has said that a GP surgery which sent letters for adults with autism saying they should a ‘do not resuscitate’ plan in place if they become critically ill during the Coronavirus crisis behaved appallingly. Yesterday, BBC reported that Voyage Care, who cares for the group of autistic adults, “was the sent […]
Simon Harris and HSE’s ‘At home abortions’ makes mockery of Government’s empty care rhetoric #gript
While the ongoing global shutdown of business is highly damaging to the economy and jobs, most world leaders have made the calculation that stopping the coronavirus is worth the economic turmoil and disruption to daily life. The risk of letting covid-19 spread through the population is simply too great, and they seem to be taking […]
We’ve all heard of people turning up at a hospital, in these times and any other time, “at death’s door”. What you might not have heard of, until now, is people turning up at hospitals who…. should be dead already, according to the best medical science. But that’s happening, apparently, and it’s one of a […]
The photo and banner are from Southwold in Britain but the sentiments match what many in rural Ireland are feeling as reports began to emerge of people flouting coronavirus restrictions to travel to holiday homes in Clare, Donegal, Wexford and other locations. Aoife Ní Shuilleabháín, in West Kerry, pointed out the obvious. Some 21% of houses on […]