In his newest book, Charles Camosy, the award-winning author of Resisting Throwaway Culture, provides a timely and thoughtful release on the urgent need to defend human dignity. There is perhaps no more important value than fundamental human equality. And yet, despite large percentages of people affirming the value, the resources available to explain and defend the basis […]
Aontú Leader, Peadar Tóibín TD has criticised the ongoing crisis faced by the indoor dining and the hospitality sector and has raised over concerns over the long-term recovery of the sector. The Meath West TD accused the government of keeping the sector trapped in a never-ending “hospitality guessing game”. Indoor regulations are only being finalised […]
“Death free” is obviously an exaggeration, since yes, some people are still dying. But take a good look at this chart. The red line is deaths, the grey line is cases. In every previous wave, deaths surged about two weeks after cases surged. This time? Not happening: COVID deaths lag confirmed COVID cases by 2 […]
It is very important that people do not misunderstand what the headline above means, so let’s be absolutely clear. First, this is a report, albeit one from NBC news, which means that it should be taken seriously. But it is also not 100% fact, or anything like that. Second, their sources are good, but their […]
2020 was a record breaking year for mortality in Ireland. In fact, a government report shows that some of last year’s rates were the lowest of all time. Every May, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) publishes its Vital Statistics Yearly Summary. This report contains data about births, deaths and marriages in Ireland for the previous calendar […]
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When we think of “covid cases in hospital”, the average person probably assumes, through more than a year of exposure to talk of covid, that they refer to people who have contracted covid 19, developed symptoms, and gotten so sick that they needed to be admitted to hospital for treatment. And indeed, in many cases, […]
The movies do a strange thing to the human mind. All our lives, we have been taught that the good guys eventually triumph. The stories we tell, the books we read, the legends we pass down from generation to generation mostly have within them a comforting lie: That the heroes succeed. Movies like “Independence Day” […]
A few caveats here: First, Behaviour and Attitudes has consistently found Sinn Fein support higher, and other party support lower, than other pollsters. That does not mean they are wrong, but it is worth noting. Second, they were not hugely accurate at the last general election, though that also does not mean they are wrong […]
Not a name that would well-known, or known at all, in Ireland, Lord Sumption, with his title of Lord, is likely to be given short shrift as a credible commentator on the world, on Brexit, on Covid-19, or even the rule of law. Titles of peerage tend to induce a guttural reaction in Ireland […]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has now acknowledged that a prior push to dismiss the possibility that the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from a lab in China had been “premature”. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus, which has caused […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]