President Donald Trump has said the anti-malarial drug chloroquine should be given to coronavirus patients after early indications that it had helped cure and reduce the average hospitalization times of Covid-19 patients during a recent trial.
“You need not to get this disease, and you need to do that by keeping away from other people”. That was the expert medical advice given to the nation last night on RTE’s Primetime.
Irish people will have let out a huge sigh of collective relief this afternoon with the news that, amidst the unprecedented crisis afflicting the country, our best and brightest were assembling in the national legislature to come up with ideas to mitigate the worst of it for the people. Until now, the Coronavirus epidemic has […]
They will also broadcast messages from non-Catholic denominations and religions following daily Mass.
The Department of Justice has said concerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted them to transfer 150 asylum seekers to a new Direct Provision centre in Cahersiveen, Kerry.
Just when you thought things in this #Covid-19 landscape couldn’t get more frustrating, along comes some god-awful celebrity video to annoy us. Everyone is already restless, housebound, kind of scared, and fairly fed-up. The kids are moping around the house, emptying cupboards of food at a speed that would rise envy in a swarm of locusts, and […]
15 Italians who were in Ireland for flight assistant training with Ryanair have Covid19. Some of them were under treatment in two hospitals in Dublin while others have been quarantined. It is believed that they contracted the virus in Bergamo, near Milan, where the training began. Bergamo is the area with of the largest number […]
Carol Nolan, Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, says the banks must repay the generosity of the Irish taxpayers and is encouraging a freeze on mortgage payments until after the crisis #gript
A very interesting conversation on my twitter timeline this morning that’s worth exploring in more depth: One point that has received very little attention is the upcoming Seanad election and, in particular, the impact that it may have on the timing of the appointment of a Taoiseach and, as a result, the formation of a […]
Terms like ‘self-isolation, ‘social distancing’ and even ‘cocooning’ are fast becoming part of our national vocabulary. For the vast majority of people, these new practices and behaviours will be somewhere between a major and minor inconvenience. Some businesses may close-others will bounce back; but we will go on, even if it is in a radically […]
It is universally accepted that the Coronavirus outbreak that has shut down the western world originated in the city of Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. It is less universally, but still generally, accepted that the virus made its way into humans via an animal sold at one of that city’s disgusting wet markets – probably […]
Tim Jackson is in agreement with Joe Brolly about the Taoiseach’s speech.