Same old
“I am confident I will have a speedy recovery.”
1.9% died in private hospitals.
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has accused An Taoiseach Micheál Martin in the Dáil of failing to produce evidence of the effectiveness of the Covid pass, and said that since the “discriminatory” passes “do not stop the transmission of Covid, one would think the Government would move to scrap these discriminatory passes altogether.” Mattie McGrath on […]
A new bill has been proposed which would give the State the right to detain people suspected of having the potential to spread Covid, and would allow Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to designate locations as “areas of infection” until June of 2022. These powers were given to the Government in March 2020, during the height of […]
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has hinted that the “exceptional” emergency Covid powers seized by the government may not be temporary, as the government votes to extend them until January. The comments were made yesterday during a debate on the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021, with Donnelly saying that future restrictions could not be ruled […]
Inevitable, really. This Government can’t really count on many loyal supporters, and they can’t afford to be completely alienating journalists and pro-choice activists (sorry, I repeat myself) with whom they made a pact all the way back in 2016 or so. On Friday, Donnelly’s department quietly tried to walk away from the idea, but he […]