Research revealed the disproportionate and detrimental impact of COVID-19 and associated restrictions on people with dementia and their families.
Leo Varadkar has called his own lockdown “absolutely bonkers”, “draconian” and a “curtailment of people’s freedom” – but says he doesn’t plan to end it any time soon. Ben Scallan reacts. #gript
42,974 vaccines were administered on Wednesday the 5th, the last day we have data for. The total number of doses administered, as of the 5th, was 1,700,538 with 1,233,067 of those being the 1st dose, and 467,471 of those being 2nd doses. The average number of doses administered per day, over the last seven days, is now […]
The legislation which permits lockdowns was set to expire on 9th November last, but the Oireachtas extended it. It is expected the government will push for it to be extended yet again, beyond the current expiry date of 9th June. That should not happen. The legislation is Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection […]
As the Irish government seeks to enact a plethora of radical policies that will change our nation forever, it’s fair to ask who exactly gave them a mandate to go ahead with any of this? Ben Scallan investigates. #gript
For some time now, there’s been an ongoing outbreak of baited breath in legal and religious circles as the public try to decipher whether the Irish Government has adopted the policies of Elizabethan England (Popery firmly discouraged) as regards to the holding of masses in Ireland or whether it had gone a step further and […]
Twenty TDs and Senators have signed a letter to an Taoiseach, an Tánaiste and to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney expressing serious concern about the mistreatment of the Uighur Muslim people by the Chinese authorities. The letter, addessed to Mícheál Martin and Leo Varadkar as well as the Foreign Affairs Minister says that the […]
When it comes to denouncing Christian persecution in the modern world, the Irish government speaks in whispers. This is all the more upsetting when you consider how radical and how vocal it is willing to be when it comes to a range of other issues linked to human right violations. Recently, our entire national discourse […]
Simon Harris and HSE’s ‘At home abortions’ makes mockery of Government’s empty care rhetoric #gript