You could be forgiven for thinking the first two lockdowns have failed. They have not achieved what they were for. We were told they would protect the HSE from excessive demand, and prevent deaths. Now with recent rises in hospitalisations and deaths, a third lockdown to control the virus is attempted. Last year officials in […]
Technically, of course, it’s not a proposal to send people to jail for going on holiday. But taken in the round, the intended effect of it is to scare the living daylights out of any Briton who fancies a week or so of debauchery in Santa Ponza: Failing to quarantine in a designated hotel after […]
Originally, this piece was headlined “lockdown until May, says Taoiseach”. But that actually might be too optimistic, because additional sources appeared while it was being written. And, according to the Irish Times, one of their sources at the FF Parliamentary Party meeting told them that the country was effectively in a state of “indefinite lockdown”. […]
Climate hysteria is, at its most basic level, a luxury belief that can be afforded by neurotic, well-to-do westerners. For many of those who are loudest about the green agenda, these beliefs are actually a status symbol. These climate neurotics are professional virtue signallers who can afford to pay more for energy. Their insistence in […]
Births in Italy in December fell by a massive 21.6%, as experts predict a “baby bust” because of the effects of the Covid lockdown. The decline in births was announced by Italian statistics agency ISTAT, who sampled numbers from 15 Italian cities to make their findings. The news will add to Italy’s demographic woes with […]
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.” WT Yeats said this in Easter, 1916, and I first heard it said during Michael Noonan’s Budget 2014 speech. At the time, the context of their use seemed appropriate, though after a few years of mere cutbacks, bailouts and uncertainty, the context of their […]
Two new reports have highlighted that, while the world’s richest people have made billions during the pandemic, the number of people living in poverty has doubled, with the equivalent of 255 million full-time jobs lost across the globe. The International Labour Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency, says that 8.8 per cent of global working hours […]
Three full years of training, it takes, to become a member of An Garda Siochána, and prepare to defend the country from the ongoing threat of criminality. Gardai go through courses in law and procedures, crime and incident policing, and professional competence, to name but a few of the courses required before passing out at […]
Sixty-one per cent of Irish Wine drinkers claim that they only open a bottle at the weekend, according to a new survey by the good folks over at boxofwine.ie: A survey carried out by Boxofwine.ie has revealed that 87% of people decided to ditch Dry January in 2021 and 58% don’t see the point of […]
In 2020 up to the end of November, there were 15,295 work permits issued to non EU nationals. The total for the previous year including renewals was 16,380. It is quite likely then, given the numbers who have arrived since Christmas from Brazil that the total of permits granted last year was very similar to, […]
Gardaí have massively increased their enforcement of fines for breaches of the 5km travel limit over the weekend, promising greater presence on backroads which people have reportedly used until now to skirt around the main Garda checkpoints. The government has ordered that citizens remain at home unless they have to travel for work, school, or […]
Not especially newsworthy in and of itself, but certainly newsworthy in terms of what it might mean for Ireland: Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of April, top-selling Bild daily cited participants […]