Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has described the Government’s actions on Covid as a “yo-yo policy” and says that proposals to introduce new Covid Restrictions even before the current restrictions are relaxed has shattered any sense of certainty that many people and businesses needed and thought that they had. “The Táiniste Leo Varadkar stated on […]
A publicity event to assure the public about the efficacy and safety of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine did not go to plan when a head nurse at a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee fainted shortly after receiving the jab. Fainting is a common side effect of many vaccines, and is not considered harmful. In fact, the US centre for disease control recommends […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly to make a statement in the Dáil to correct a statement he made in relation to a Covid-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Galway in October. The Minister accused the Aontú leader of telling a “flat out lie” when he raised the […]
Across the globe, countless millions of people have placed their hope in the Coronavirus vaccine as the fastest plausible path back to normalcy for families, businesses, and societies in 2021. If the vaccines work as expected, and can be delivered in a timely manner, they are expected to herald the end of the symphony of […]
The HSE has used Covid as a cover to close small rural hospitals, Independent Td Mattie McGrath has claimed. “The HSE are doing things now in the middle [of the Covid crisis] that they wanted to do for a long time,” Deputy McGrath said. “That’s disband and close all the rural hospitals. We are under […]
A company which sold the Irish Government €14million’s worth of Chinese ventilators, which later turned out not to work, is behind a plan to implement a new vaccine passport, Gript can reveal. ROQU, which was only founded in 2017, and had no Irish trading history before being awarded a €14m contract to supply ventilators from […]
Spare a moment, in this festive season, to mourn an old friend that’s missing in action. At this time of year, we’re usually joined by one of our old friends, the Orthomyxoviridae – better known as the viruses that cause Winter Flu. But this year? No sign of them. LATEST FIGURES SHOW that no cases […]
Dolores and Michael Harrison have been married for 62 years. Their daughter Fiona says they have never been apart, but now a series of health complications and Covid restrictions mean that they are being kept apart from their families and from each other. Their daughter Fiona says the continued restrictions are “soul-destroying” and, with the […]
A campaign seeking to lift what they say are “callous” restrictions on nursing home visits say that older people are “dying with broken hearts” because of the isolation and loneliness brought about by the Covid lockdown. The campaign group, Care Champions say that they have launched the ‘2*2*2 initiative’ seeking a change to regulations so […]
Next time you find yourself in front of a judge, for speeding, or whatever, make sure to tell his or her honour that you are deeply sorry and that lessons have been learned. Maybe, to emphasise the point, you could pledge to go on a course that teaches you about the speed limit: A HEALTH […]
Some of the outgoing President’s supporters have already taken to calling the various Covid vaccines the “Trump Vaccine”, so happy are they to associate his name with success. In fact, here’s White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany calling it that, just yesterday: "It's the Trump vaccine" pic.twitter.com/MTFff7sQfk — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 2, 2020 Regardless […]
Remember when this guy was the super-macho, helicopter flying, hard-man bad boy of the British Royal Family? What happened? “At the end of the day, nature is our life source,” the red-headed royal rebel said in a recent interview for WaterBear, a streaming platform dedicated to environmental documentaries. The Duke of Sussex also described the […]