Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus Cullinan celebrated Mass on the ancient monastic site of St Declan in Ardmore, Co. Waterford yesterday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson garbled his government’s coronavirus strategy. The media reported that the UK (and the Netherlands) were adopting a “herd immunity” approach to combatting the disease. The chief scientific adviser to the government, Patrick Vallance, suggested that the UK would allow millions of Britons to be infected, boosting eventual herd immunity. “Our aim is […]
The President of the Irish Health Consultants Association (IHCA) has written to Health Minister, Simon Harris, because of reports of “widespread shortages” of protective clothing and equipment for frontline heath workers. However, the HSE confirmed that new stock had been ordered and was on its way. A report in today’s Sunday Business Post reveals that Dr Dónal O’Hanlon wrote […]
The only specialised euthanasia clinic in the Netherlands has closed its doors during the coronavirus pandemic. The Euthanasia Expertise Center, formerly known as the End of Life Clinic (Levenseindekliniek), is located in The Hague and provides counselling and euthanasia services for patients whose GPs refuse to authorise euthanasia. According to its website, “In the interest of […]
Celebrating the unsung heroes of the Covid-19 virus #gript
In times of crisis, there’s always someone ready to make a wisecrack about the situation. However, the people of New Berlin, Wisconsin, probably didn’t expect that with the covid-19 emergency the smart aleck would be their own local police department. The official New Berlin police department’s Facebook account made a post last week which read: […]
BREAKING: Ireland now has 683 cases of coronavirus. Italy had 655 cases on 27th Feb, and that rose to over 41,000 by yesterday. Tim Jackson says Ireland must LOCKDOWN now to avoid Italy’s mistakes.
There is now a total of 769 confirmed cases of Covid-19 north and south of Ireland, and tragically there have been 4 deaths so far. Many of these infections could have been prevented in my view. Many of these people are likely to have contracted the illness when flights were still arriving from northern Italy into […]
It seems the coming days will determine how Taiwan is remembered in the fight against Covid-19.
When everything else in life is stripped bare, God is the one certainty that we can cling to.
Showing no respect for social distancing, the drunk elephants fell asleep in a nearby tea garden, happy to have found more than they bargained for at the farm.
Covid-19 looks likely to rank among the most startling black swan events of history. A black swan in economic parlance disturbs the existing paradigms, sails into sudden view out of seeming nowhere and shatters settled doctrines about white feathers, orange beaks and blacked up eyes. Who could have predicted? We were looking in the wrong […]