Last month the World Health Organisation published its “Abortion Care Guideline,” in which it endorsed abortion up to birth without gestational limits. The document was published on March 9th 2022, with a goal of recommending the “best practice statements relating to abortion.” On page 27 of the document, the text clearly states: “[We] recommend against […]
What can one say? It’s groundhog day all over again. As Ireland’s Covid cases have begun to increase, we are once again experiencing calls for a return of various Covid restrictions – just weeks after lifting them initially. Tell me if you’re starting to get deja vu. The HSE's Emergency Department Taskforce is requesting the […]
Let’s be completely honest here: Almost every last one of us, if offered €295k a year, would take it, and not think twice
Sorry, what?
In Oxford dictionary, a choice is defined as “the act of choosing between two or more possibilities.” Keep that in mind as you read the rest of this article. The World Health Organisation has announced that while there is a place for governments imposing legal vaccine mandates on their citizens, these should be used as […]
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Over the last decade, health spending in Ireland has increased by more than 20%. And yet, has the health service gotten appreciably better?
Whats the delay?
A few caveats here: First, Behaviour and Attitudes has consistently found Sinn Fein support higher, and other party support lower, than other pollsters. That does not mean they are wrong, but it is worth noting. Second, they were not hugely accurate at the last general election, though that also does not mean they are wrong […]
In 2019, Sinn Fein tabled a Motion of No Confidence in the then Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Ahead of the Dáil debate and with cringe inducing bravado, Harris took to Twitter to challenge his political opponents. “Bring it on” he tweeted. Well, bring it on they did, and it wasn’t all empty guff and political opportunism […]
Finally, a solution to the impending pensions crisis: Israeli scientists have boosted the life expectancy of mice by 23 percent, in an advance they hope could eventually be replicated in humans. They increased the supply of a protein, SIRT6, which normally wanes with aging, in 250 mice. In peer-reviewed research just published in the journal […]
So how did your lockdown fitness goals turn out? Rubbish? Yeah I’d imagine so. I’d say that’s how the entire country feels. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the gyms were closed for over 200 days, leaving the majority of people to fend for themselves when it came to managing their own health and fitness. Some will […]