One of the big problems with writing about the Covid Pandemic, 20 months into it, is that by this stage, almost everything that there is to say has been said. And little of it has made any difference. But there is one point that must be made over, and over, again: And that point is […]
Either the vaccine is worth having, or it makes very little difference.
“extremely stressful” for kids
The story changes week to week, and the only constant is utter panic. Here is the anatomy of a national nervous breakdown
Now, of course, just because something becomes Government policy, that does not mean it becomes easy to implement overnight.
Consider what follows to be McGuirk’s first law of Irish Journalism: If a campaign is described as “a grassroots campaign” in the Irish media, it is a reasonable assumption that the campaign is being organised by about fourteen state-funded NGO groups on the political left. By the same token, if a campaign is genuinely grassroots […]
Nobody forced the Irish Government to announce that it was considering subsidising antigen tests.
It should be obvious to anybody with a basic grasp of numbers that Ireland has now been making policy, for some time, based on figures which are worse than imaginary.
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In the very early days of Christianity, there was the phenomenon of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers), people who sought the wilderness so as to avoid the various distractions of society, to try to better practise the gospel way of life. Later was the example of St. Benedict (5th century), who built a monastery at Monte Cassino […]
Families ‘deserve answers’