By closing down nightclubs just weeks after re-opening them, the government has tacitly admitted that vaccine certs don’t work. But don’t worry – the policy’s abject failure won’t stop them from doubling down on it. It’s rapidly becoming clear that Irish politicians have a favourite sport, and that sport is boxing. To be precise, boxing […]
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One of the most baffling things about the Katherine Zappone cock-up (let’s call it what it is) is that it ever got this far. Politicians spend millions of our euros every year on a veritable army of special advisors, many of them ex-journalists, precisely so that they can be advised how to avoid banana skins […]
A new report has warned that the Government’s relationship with NPHET “lacks transparency” and that “sweeping statutory powers” were unofficially delegated to NPHET. The report, Public Health Law During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland, was released today by the COVID-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory in Trinity. The report argues that interactions between NPHET and […]
As draconian restrictions on people’s capacity to live their lives persist, as Ireland is now segregated according to your private healthcare choices, as Lockdowns haunt every day like a spectre and as the silver lining of freedom after vaccination is turning out to be more of a mirage in the dessert, I grow increasingly concerned […]
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has admitted that at least some Covid-19 hospital cases were from patients admitted to hospital with totally unrelated conditions, and called for greater accuracy in reporting from NPHET. Up until now, if someone is admitted to hospital for a non-virus related condition – for example, a broken leg – but tests positive […]
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 […]
Last week, Ireland’s Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, announced that he would be opening discussions with the hospitality sector to introduce a system for restricting indoor hospitality to customers who have been vaccinated against Covid. There was no public outcry. The government was not widely condemned for proposing to oblige restaurants to engage in systematic […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the cost of implementing the Government’s Climate Action Bill will cost €20 billion annually for next 10 years. That’s ten times the cost of the National Children’s Hospital at €1.74 billion or almost twice the amount of revenue generated annually by Irelands Corporation Tax at approximately […]
Rural Independent TDs have said that without major amendments the Climate Action Bill “blatantly attacks the fabric of rural Ireland and our democracy”. Ahead of the Report Stage debate and vote on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill in the Dáil, the Rural Independent TDs hd called on backbench government TDs to […]