“We just want to make a living” Publicans call for the right to re-open businesses at billboard launch #gript
A leading medical expert has said that the Covid-19 lockdown may be leading older people to feel life might not be worth living – and he criticised the reporting of rising cases as being used to ‘terrorise’ people with visions of hundreds of people now sick when that’s not true Consultant physician in Geriatric and […]
Here’s what the publicans, from Monaghan, have to say for themselves (emphasis mine): For months pub owners across Ireland have borne the costs of this pandemic, and we have done so largely without public complaint. But that ends today. “Across Europe, the pubs are open. Pubs in Northern Ireland can serve outdoors. As publicans in […]
The arrest of a pregnant woman in her home in front of her children for posting an anti-lockdown event has caused outrage in Australia and abroad. Zoe Buhler, a 28 year old resident of Ballarat, Victoria was preparing to go for an ultrasound when masked police officers entered her home and said they were arresting her […]
Mattie McGrath says lift lockdown on rural pubs and let people get back to living alongside Covid-19
The chairman of NPHET and the Minister for Health have both recently alluded to the possibility of a second lockdown. Would you support this? VOTE in our Poll below and leave your comments here and on social media.
With #GolfGate sending shockwaves through the country, Ben Scallan asks if our most senior politicians have been taking their own lockdown rules seriously since the beginning.
Great news for anti-social people-haters like me who like to find any excuse to avoid human company. But the rest of you must be wondering what on earth he’s thinking: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has warned the State is at a “tipping point”, and that the coronavirus pandemic is “close to having us lock […]
The public’s reaction to Golfgate has been swift and brutal. Indeed, it has now occasioned more public mea culpa’s than you could shake a stick at. Yet still the public and political appetite for scalps, of both the EU and judicial variety has not been sated. No doubt this lamentable saga, with all its […]
Thousands attend protest against lockdown restrictions #gript
Thousands of people from across the country have attended a rally in Dublin city centre where speakers called for an end to the lockdown and said that citizens should have freedom of choice in relation to the covid-19 restrictions. They also said that the government needed to provide transparency in relation to evidence-based decision making. […]
What is ‘Excess Deaths’? The Excess Deaths statistic estimates the total mortality impact of a disease on a society. Excess Deaths tells us how many people died in excess of the number we would normally have expected over the same time period. It’s like the ‘real’ metrics that remove the effect of inflation from the observed economic […]