NPHET’s Advised Against Border Quarantines at the Start of The Outbreak – Part 1 On the 25th of February 2021, the Dáil voted to require all travellers coming to the country from high-risk regions to complete a mandatory 14 days of quarantine. A border quarantine is a standard public health policy in a period of […]
Hairdressers will be closed until May, the Taoiseach said yesterday, meaning that those of us who survive lockdown will emerge, eventually, into the sunshine, with hair and beards flowing like the cavemen of yore. But that’s only if we survive what NPHET says is the latest “dangerous moment” of the never-ending pandemic: Ireland could be […]
The idea will be considered by NPHET.
“I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if a hundred thousand teachers all cried out in anguish at once, and were suddenly silenced:” Nphet will consider making it mandatory for primary school children to wear face masks. Deputy chief medical officer Ronan Glynn said the formal advice is that children under 13 can […]
It has taken more than a year – one filled with of grief, suffering and misery across all cohorts of society – but the nation’s paper of record finally seems to be coming around to the idea that this never-ending catastrophe might have something to do with the secretive, unelected and unaccountable set of policymakers […]
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 […]
Michael O’Leary has launched a blistering attack on NPHET and RTÉ over their depiction of the Covid-19 pandemic.
All other travellers will be legally required to quarantine for 14 days, in a change to what was up until now an advisory step, whilst passengers arriving in Northern Ireland and travelling to the Republic will also be legally bound to quarantine.
As pubs, hairdressers, beauty salons and restaurants prepare to close tomorrow afternoon, they are among a range of businesses and organizations that might not be allowed to reopen until March according to Leo Varadkar.
Government sources have confirmed a whole raft of restrictions will be introduced in the coming days.
A Mayo pub owner was arrested hours after opening his “wet” pub to customers who were given rapid-tests to ensure the premises was Covid-free.
The continued spectre of ordinary people feeling overwhelmed by fear cannot be allowed to persist, if only the gatekeepers of public information were to oblige.