Peak Covid madness
Mandatory Hotel Quarantine was introduced in Ireland at the start of 2021 as part of a Government strategy to help get the country back to normal. Six months on, the policy has completely failed, because Ireland remains the most restricted country in Europe. The policy was introduced, let us not forget, on the basis of […]
On Friday afternoon, the news broke that Stobart Air, the regional operator responsible for many flights between Ireland and the UK, was going out of business, becoming the highest profile business casualty of the pandemic to date. Naturally, opposition politicians took to the airwaves to blame the Government for not providing enough “supports” for the […]
A stupendous success, says Stephen Donnelly: Mandatory hotel quarantining has worked effectively Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says. He tells the Seanad that 4,616 people have entered hotel quarantine here, 178 tested positive for Covid-19 and 59 cases associated with variants of concern were detected. — Mícheál Lehane (@MichealLehane) May 31, 2021 178 cases of Covid, […]
The directors of the company, Barry and David Walsh, thanked all customers they had served for their loyalty.
Today, the Commission sent a letter to the Irish authorities asking for clarifications on this matter and on the criteria used to determine the designated countries.
There is, as Irish Catholic Editor Michael Kelly noted last night, a “glorious irony” to this: There is a glorious irony in the fact that the Irish Republic has now gone so rogue that Poland and Hungary are rightly raising concerns about the rule of law here. https://t.co/f6WlZnEiAV — Michael Kelly ن (@MichaelPTKelly) April 15, […]
One of these days, my friends, Ireland will find itself facing a problem to which Paul Murphy’s answer will not be “seize all private property”. But it is not this day. Here he is, popping up on RTE’s Drive Time radio programme to advocate….. seizing hotels and turning them into Government prison camps quarantine facilities […]