“They thought I was a token cage fighter”: Holohan tells all
Unfortunately, none of us dreamt up Covid. We haven’t been asleep since March 2020, and we didn’t invent the checkpoints or the missed funerals. A Cork grandmother really has spent months in jail for not masking up in a shop, and Stephen Donnelly did actually want to know what you had for breakfast. What’s more […]
Relative obscurity should be the default setting for the Government’s medical advisors. We need to know that they are there in a crisis, but we also need to have the confidence to know that a crisis will pass.
It strains credulity to believe that the hospital situation changed so markedly in just two weeks.
The state’s covid response has been a miserable failure in 2021, and nobody – nobody – has been more responsible than that than the person responsible for that strategy, Dr. Holohan.
The Covid response is basically the dictionary definition of mission creep
The man is not the nation’s leader. He is a civil servant who has gotten – on a historic scale – far, far, too big for his boots.
With Ireland’s planned October 22nd “Freedom Day” set to be cancelled by the government, the Taoiseach has followed NPHET’s advice and will be keeping Covid restrictions until at least – wait for it – February of 2022. The hardest part about “two weeks to stop the spread” is the first two years. An Garda Síochána […]
There are many reasons to be glad of the news which began to trickle out on Friday, and was confirmed by the Irish Times over the weekend. NPHET, it seems, is living on borrowed time: Farewell then to Nphet and Dr Tony’s briefings and letters as the war is coming to an end. Electric Picnic […]
Here’s a question for Dr. Tony, if any of you credentialled, press conference attending journalists happen to be reading: Why ninety per cent? Why not ninety five? Or eighty seven? Or one hundred per cent? What’s so scientifically significant about the number ninety? Let me venture an answer to that: Nothing. There’s nothing scientific about […]
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Tipperary TD, Mattie McGrath has said that Dr Tony Holohan told him “we are dealing with a pandemic, we will do the lockdown and do the science later,” when he challenged the Chief Medical Officer on the science behind the continued closure of churches in the lockdown. Deputy McGrath said that there had been “no […]