To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
One of Fianna Fáil’s most senior politicians has called for all major parades for the St Patrick’s Day Festival to be cancelled given the current COVID-19 crisis. Éamon Ó Cuiv tweeted that “It seems strange that the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, and other major parades elsewhere in Ireland, would go ahead given the current […]
An Open Letter to Dr.Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at Irish Department of Health and Paul Reid, Director General of Irish Health Executive Service (HSE): Exploring the Adequacy of Irelands Sars-CoV-2 Response and Outlining the Dangers of Our “Contact Tracing dependent” containment strategy Dear Dr. Holohan and Mr. Reid, I am writing this letter on […]
The ugly spectre of China’s grim illegal organ trade reared its head again this week with the publication of the final judgment of the London Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting in China. This coincided with front page headlines in most national world newspapers on Tuesday trumpeting China’s first double lung transplant on a coronavirus victim. The patient, […]
The Department of Health, and Minister Simon Harris, have so far failed to respond to questions put to them asking if they had put in place measures, recommended by the World Health Organisation [WHO], to minimise the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at an international event the Department is co-hosting next week. They have also […]
Professor of Immunology, Kingston Mills, has called on the authorities to cancel the St Patrick’s Day festival, as cases of the coronavirus begin to climb in Ireland. Do you agree? VOTE ABOVE #gript
The chances of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Sinn Fein coming together to form a national government are, let’s face it, almost zero, for the simple reason that politicians probably feel that it would probably disadvantage all three parties. But that may well be wrong, and, more importantly, leaving the politics out of it, there’s […]
A professor of immunology has called on the authorities to cancel the St Patrick’s Day festival, as cases of the coronavirus begin to climb in Ireland.
Cork University Hospital is effectively on lock down this evening, with notices outside the hospital saying an “infection outbreak” means strict visitor restrictions are in place.
A man who has now tested positive for the coronavirus worked a shift in a hospital emergency department in the west of Ireland after returning from northern Italy, it has been revealed. The man, a healthcare professional, is one of a family of four in Clare who have been confirmed to have the virus and […]
There are basically two competing approaches to thinking about the Coronavirus: The first is popular with many policymakers and media observers, and it is to basically accept that the virus is now out of control globally, that most of us will probably get it and survive, and that it’s just a fact of life that […]
A national school in Co Clare has been closed for two weeks as 4 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in the country last night. The Clare Echo has reported that all four cases are a family in North-West Clare who had travelled to Northern Italy before returning home. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony […]