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Nobody told Micheál Martin that Katherine Zappone was to get the big job in New York until it arrived at Cabinet, in the form of a behind the scenes agreement amongst Fine Gael Ministers, and the hapless Taoiseach was bounced into going along with it. In the immediate aftermath, he had the look of a […]
You cannot blame those in Fianna Fáil – led by serial rebel Marc MacSharry – who have, at the twenty-ninth hour, decided that the time has come for a change in leadership. There is nothing else, after all, left to try. The party’s performance in the Dublin Bay South bye-election was so abysmal, so humiliating, […]
The notion, still widely held, that Ireland will be able to return to normality without the mother and father of all battles, took a very big hit yesterday. In the face of all the available international evidence, the Irish Government instead decided to rely on a black box model from NPHET – which nobody can […]
Biden administration accused Boris Johnson of “inflaming tensions” in Northern Ireland.
It feels like a very long time ago now, but it is worth remembering, and reminding ourselves, that the original point of lockdowns was to reduce social contacts between people, and limit opportunities for Coronavirus to spread amongst the population. The success of lockdowns was supposed to be measured in scientific terms – the flatness […]
After working away diligently to establish a smothering regulatory framework that would stifle innovation, the Irish government have finally arrived with a fully fledged but elegantly simple solution, the Climate Action Bill. Reading through the government’s press release, its evident the Bill is intended as an all-pervading regulatory burden on all aspects of life. The […]
“Caution must be the watchword here”, we heard on RTE Radio One yesterday morning, as the nation’s beleaguered leader took to the airwaves with RTE’s own Claire Byrne to discuss, amongst other things, the great national re-opening plan. Reading that opening paragraph, you might think that it was the Taoiseach who told Claire Byrne that […]
Following the raising of the issue by Aontú leader Peadar Toíbín in the Dáil again, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has finally agreed to meet with families of the victims of the loyalist Glenanne Gang. The gang operated mostly during the 1970s and is believed to have murdered over 120 people. Almost all of them were […]
Taoiseach Michéal Martin has said that he “can’t be definitive” that the country won’t experience a fourth wave of covid-19 this winter and go into lockdown again as a result. Speaking on The Tonight Show on Virgin Media, the Taoiseach was asked: “Are you suggesting that you would be confident that, once the vaccination programme […]
The HSE appears to have reversed its requirement for student nurses to receive the covid-19 vaccine before taking up clinical placements. In a letter seen by Gript, the Chief Clinical Officer now says the new directive supersedes previous correspondence which said students would be prevented from being assigned to placements in HSE facilities unless they […]
The Taoiseach was visibly annoyed by Peadar Tóibín TD’s request that the government guarantee the immediate return of “full cancer services.”
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