Portugal has lifted most restrictions with a three-stage plan
A woman was transferred from mandatory hotel quarantine to hospital last night (FRI) suffering chest pains due to stress. Cindy Connolly travelled to Dublin from the UK to care for her 79 year old father who was released from hospital earlier this week after suffering an adverse reaction to Pfizer’s Covid 19 vaccine. She got […]
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 […]
A district court in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik has ruled in seven separate cases last week that forcing people to stay in hotel quarantine is illegal. According to a statement on the government website, the court ruled that forcing passengers coming from other countries to stay in quarantine hotels “lacks legal basis.” The government […]
It’s getting hard to count the number of disasters the Minister for Health has been involved in this week, and its only Wednesday morning. At the present rate, it is entirely possible, if not likely, he’ll have single handedly bankrupted the state by Friday. First, this week, we learned what he was up to in […]
This is one of those stories that is half common sense, and half utterly ludicrous. In fairness to Fine Gael Senator Barry Ward, let us start with the part that’s common sense: Vaccinated persons should be exempt from Mandatory Hotel Quarantine – Ward 12th April 2021 – Senator Barry Ward Fine Gael Senator Barry Ward […]
This is the second article of two that review NPHET’s decision to advise the Irish government against a border quarantine in February 2020. NPHET would later go on to reverse its position on the matter, but by that stage it was too late. The first wave was already well underway, and NPHET’s indecision at this […]
Rarely has a news story been more perfectly calibrated to appeal to the various prejudices of Ireland’s media class than the news this weekend that two young women had absconded from their mandatory appointments with two-week detention, having returned from Dubai, where they had gone to have cosmetic surgery. The women in question, we are […]
A 74-year old grandmother who flew from New Zealand to live with her family in Ireland, says that she feels “a prisoner” after being forced to stay in a Dublin quarantine hotel – even though her country of origin has an exceptionally low rate of Covid infection and is not on Ireland’s “high-risk” countries list. Elizabeth Malcolm […]
“We are moving away from describing these variants as the Brazilian variant or the South African variant.”
I wonder, you know, whether this is constitutional: “A spokesman for Mr Donnelly said gardaí now had the power to call to people’s homes to ensure they were quarantining but they could (not) enter the person’s home. Antoinette Cunningham, the general secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) said on Thursday evening […]
Charlie McConalogue tested positive for Covid-19 this morning after a recent trip to Brussels.