The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread rapidly around the world due to international aviation and transport. As of March 2021, a novel form of pneumonia that first emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and has since been […]
Dulce et Decorum est, Pro Patria Mori, wrote the Roman Poet Horace, at around about the time of Christ’s birth. It’s a famous Latin phrase, which translates to English as “it is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country”. In its time, the phrase was designed to encapsulate the highest form of patriotism, and […]
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]
Deaths from heart attacks deaths triple, and cancer deaths are predicted to rise over the next ten years. Yet the lockdowns continue, and the data is ignored. It seems that the main function of the Irish government is to inflate the fear. The latest from our patronising Tánaiste is that we might have to get […]
As you may have heard, the new Secretary General of the Department of Health is to receive an annual salary of €292,000. This represents an increase of 40% from the previous salary for the position, which was a mere €211,000. The Government’s position is that the sum is necessary. If you pay peanuts, you get […]
A 15-year-old boy who developed an incurable sleep disorder and a debilitating auto immune condition after being given the swine flu vaccine has won a settlement in the High Court ten years later.
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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 […]
“It was a tumour on my head and they needed to get it out fast”: Peadar Tóibín on his cancer diagnosis, what it meant for his family, and why the government must open up access to healthcare.
Aontú Leader & Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has directly called on an Taoiseach Micheál Martin at leaders questions in the Dáil to reopen critical health services across the country to those who desperately need them. “I received a message from a Doctor in the last few days. He said to me: ‘I’ve luckily had […]
The Medical Independent is reporting today on a survey which has found that more than half of non-EU doctors would not recommend to colleagues to work for the HSE: “The survey, which was conducted by the recently-established group ‘Train Us for Ireland’, found that 53.5 per cent of respondents would not make such a recommendation. […]