About a hundred babies born to surrogate mothers in Ukraine are separated from the parents who commissioned them. The parents can’t visit and the babies can’t leave. In the meantime, the children are being cared for by their surrogate mothers or the agency which recruited them. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, it has been […]
Leo Varadkar was pictured having a picnic with friends in Phoenix Park with his shirt off last weekend. Did his actions send a signal to people that the lockdown was effectively over? VOTE in our Poll below and leave us your comments on our social pages and on our website
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We put out the bins earlier in the week, and I thought of all the unsung heroes of this pandemic who made sure we were safe and getting the services we needed as we stayed locked down in our homes. Even at the height of the lockdown, the refuse collectors were still coming around the silent streets to […]
Judging by the headlines of all the major papers and news websites this morning, there is mounting fear and anger in the country at the prospect that schools – primary schools in particular – may not be able to re-open as normal in September. On the face of it, the anger and confusion is justified. […]
In most other western countries, the release of this HSE memo by former Simon Harris appointee Dr. Marcus De Brun would be leading the news everywhere. Not in Ireland, though, where the top story everywhere is about schools re-opening in September, which is almost four months away. And poor Dr. De Brun’s tweet of the […]
A major survey has shown that 1 in 3 Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety or depression – a huge shift upwards since the coronavirus pandemic began. The San Francisco Gate reports that data from the Census Bureau showed 24% of respondents showed “clinically significant symptoms of major depressive disorder and 30% showed symptoms […]
Like many people the world over, lockdown has been an incredibly trying time for most of us and we aren’t out of the woods yet. Only a few short months ago, we were told by many on social media that all we had to do was stay at home and save lives. We weren’t being […]
It’s one thing, you know, for politicians to lie to you and me. We’re used to it. We don’t expect any better. We’re so used to it that we can actually translate them automatically. For example, “well Miriam, I’m glad you asked me that” means “I am now going to answer a totally different question”. […]
As expected, most of the Irish media have swung in behind an Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s blatant flouting of his own ‘no picnic’ rule for the Covid-19 restrictions. The Irish Times posted a helpful ‘explainer’ which explained nothing but helpfully told readers that Leo was fully complying with guidelines, which he clearly wasn’t. It was so mean of anyone […]
Leo Varadkar went on a picnic…while ordering everyone else not to have picnics. Does this expose the double standards of Ireland’s elites? Ben Scallan comments #gript #LeoVaradkar
In Gulliver’s Travels Swift describes how the great Empires of Lilliput and Blefescu had been at war for six and thirty moons over which end of a boiled egg to break before eating it. Today’s battle between the Big Distancers of the Principality of Castleknock, with the support of an array of courtiers and Doctors of […]