Rural Independent TDs say that “all sense of proportion and perspective is being lost due to government and NPHET’s contributions to deep uncertainty in already uncertain times.” Speaking ahead of an expected announcement of a Level 4 lockdown later today, the Rural Independent Group strongly criticised the Government’s ongoing contradictory and disorganised media messaging, which […]
Deputy Alan Farrell has taken to Twitter to denounce the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) media leaks that he alleges took place today.
An interesting emerging story, this. Here’s the Tánaiste, in his now legendary/infamous (pick your adjective) appearance on Claire Byrne on Monday night: “But what happened on Sunday night came out of the blue. Last Thursday, when we received our advice from NPHET, there was no suggestion at all that they were going to level five” […]
A Limerick doctor, Patrick Morrisey, has become the latest medic to lose a job for disagreeing with the Government’s official line on Covid. Dr. Morrissey attended the health freedom Ireland/yellow vest protest in Dublin at the weekend, where he delivered a strong criticism of various aspects of the Government’s approach. A few days later, he […]
Lockdowns – at every level – have real consequences, and one of those consequences is that hundreds of thousands of people have been living on a subsistence payment since March. You’d have to wonder how many of the TDs, or NPHET reps, or over-paid RTÉ hosts, would be so stridently in favour of keeping the country and […]
The Tánaiste’s remarkably strident attack on NPHET on Prime Time last night has raised eyebrows right across the political spectrum this morning, and Fianna Fáil backbencher Eamon O’Cuiv has become the first politician to criticise it: Completely appropriate for Government not to follow NPHET’s advice citing broader social and economic concerns. Not appropriate for certain […]
While there were differing views on the necessity and proportionality of the NPHET recommendation to move the country to Level 5, there was very little debate around the manner in which that decision made its way into the public domain. Sent out on a fairly miserable Sunday evening, weather wise at least, it landed […]
Thankfully, the Government remembered who elected them and rejected the NPHET call for Level 5 restrictions. It was clear that the leaking of the proposed lockdown last night had elicited a pretty wide ranging rejection. Unlike the announcement of the first lockdown in March when people were naturally in a state of shock and in […]
Ben Scallan calls out the government and NPHET as Ireland braces for a second lockdown. #gript
In about six weeks time, Micheál Martin is either going to look like Rudyard Kipling’s man who kept his head when all about him were losing theirs, or he’s going to look like the man who made one of the most irresponsible decisions in Irish history. We’ll have to wait and find out which it […]
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has slammed NPEHT for the irresponsible manner in which they have leaked their recommendations that the entire country should be moved to level 5 to the media. The Independent TD has said that such news is detrimental to the business community and wider society and has called on NPHET to be […]
Last April, when we were under strict lockdown and confined to a radius of two, later four, kilometres from our homes, cases of covid19 were running at figures similar to what they are now. And that is without factoring in the lack of widespread testing back then. Back then too schools were shut and hospitals […]