An interesting emerging story, this. Here’s the Tánaiste, in his now legendary/infamous (pick your adjective) appearance on Claire Byrne on Monday night: “But what happened on Sunday night came out of the blue. Last Thursday, when we received our advice from NPHET, there was no suggestion at all that they were going to level five” […]
The country is at yet another crossroads. There is a build-up of traffic. Brexit beckons. The economy is comatose. The credibility of the Government’s COVID-19 strategy is under serious pressure. And Ireland’s new secularism is leading to an oppression of fundamental rights and freedoms. Trust – that most precious civic commodity – is always a […]
For many people in Ireland, these are tough times. Businesses are in danger of bankruptcy. School students face uncertainty, and teachers are struggling to teach through restrictions. Many people are entering their sixth or seventh month since being able to see, or hug, elderly loved ones. Christmas itself, we hear, may now be imperilled. So, […]
A Limerick doctor, Patrick Morrisey, has become the latest medic to lose a job for disagreeing with the Government’s official line on Covid. Dr. Morrissey attended the health freedom Ireland/yellow vest protest in Dublin at the weekend, where he delivered a strong criticism of various aspects of the Government’s approach. A few days later, he […]
A new report has shown that even as economies are contracting and concerns about employment rise, the richest people in the world have seen their wealth rocket by a massive 27% during the COVID-19 crisis. A report by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to a staggering $10.2 trillion […]
Let me just lay my cards on the table straight away; the absence of leadership, and the utter failure of the Catholic Bishops to collectively challenge the restrictions on public worship in this state has been, at best, a mystery and at worst an absolute scandal. Nowhere in Europe have we seen such unreflective capitulation […]
Bad news for people like me, who live in Tipperary but do the shopping in Limerick. Oh well. Looks like Nenagh’s Lidl is getting at least one new customer: Justice Minister @HMcEntee says if level three or four is implemented she would like to see movement outside people's county become a "penal offence" @RTENewsAtOne — […]
Lockdowns – at every level – have real consequences, and one of those consequences is that hundreds of thousands of people have been living on a subsistence payment since March. You’d have to wonder how many of the TDs, or NPHET reps, or over-paid RTÉ hosts, would be so stridently in favour of keeping the country and […]
Dr Martin Feeley was sacked by the HSE despite a lifetime of service to healthcare, an achievement previously recognised in his appointment as clinical director of the HSE’s Dublin Midlands Health Group. His offence was to state that, in his medical opinion, for most people Covid-19 was no worse than the flu, and that the […]
The Tánaiste’s remarkably strident attack on NPHET on Prime Time last night has raised eyebrows right across the political spectrum this morning, and Fianna Fáil backbencher Eamon O’Cuiv has become the first politician to criticise it: Completely appropriate for Government not to follow NPHET’s advice citing broader social and economic concerns. Not appropriate for certain […]
The average American Republican who does not subscribe to European, progressive, green-tinted views on climate change has a number of stock arguments. The science, they’ll say, is inexact, and far from settled. Projections of doom in a few years’ time are worst case scenarios. Even if the carbon levels in the atmosphere could be reversed, […]
While there were differing views on the necessity and proportionality of the NPHET recommendation to move the country to Level 5, there was very little debate around the manner in which that decision made its way into the public domain. Sent out on a fairly miserable Sunday evening, weather wise at least, it landed […]