Last night we heard that NPHET is recommending that a full Level 5 lockdown be implemented, which caused the head of the HSE, Paul Reid, to say that while there were concerns ‘about trends on Covid19’, there were also “impacts of severe and regular restrictions in society on the public health, wellbeing, mental health and […]
Covid-19 and Michael Martin: Why are people’s legitimate concerns being ignored and marginalised? Taoiseach Micheál Martin claimed in a recent radio interview that people who downplay the seriousness of coronavirus should be marginalised and have their views undermined. Ben Scallan reacts.
Malachy Steenson speaks about the erosion of free-speech and civil liberties during the covid-19 era. #gript
Former Attorney General and justice minister, Senator Michael McDowell has slammed NPHET’s advice to send Dublin into a fresh lockdown as flying in the face of science. “It hasn’t been scientifically justified, it’s wrong, it flies in the face of the strategy that this government announced two weeks ago that they were going to open […]
It is a well-known fact, accepted by psychologists and psychoanalysts that the more you repeat a concept or thought, be it negative or positive, the more you come to believe it and eventually it is likely to become a reality. If you wake up each morning and go to bed each night with the thought […]
After months of enforced closure, Ireland’s small town/rural pubs are set to re-open next Monday 21st September. Pubs in the capital will remain in limbo – unless of course they are serving a virus-busting plate of chicken and chips for €9. While the recently announced five level plan “Living With Covid-19” is an improvement on […]
The re-opening of schools has brought the illusion of normality to our country. After all, what’s better and more normal than seeing little ones and older children return to the business of books and school bags, lunches and learning, drop-offs and pick-ups. Families are the hinge of a healthy society, the pivot of a robust […]
Rural TDs have urged politicians to give cross-party support to their motion which seeks to revoke the latest Covid-19 restrictions passed by the government which they say are “bizzare, illogical, and unworkable.” The Independent TDs were sharply critical of the actions of other deputies who they said voted for the Government’s restrictions in the Dáil […]
Aontú Leader & Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has directly called on an Taoiseach Micheál Martin at leaders questions in the Dáil to reopen critical health services across the country to those who desperately need them. “I received a message from a Doctor in the last few days. He said to me: ‘I’ve luckily had […]
The Rural Independent Group is set to move a motion this Wednesday calling on Dáil Éireann to rescind the new regulations for pubs and restaurants that were introduced by the Minister for Health through Statutory Instrument last week. The regulations have been widely criticised for requiring pubs and restaurants to a record of the meals […]
“We just want to make a living” Publicans call for the right to re-open businesses at billboard launch #gript
A leading medical expert has said that the Covid-19 lockdown may be leading older people to feel life might not be worth living – and he criticised the reporting of rising cases as being used to ‘terrorise’ people with visions of hundreds of people now sick when that’s not true Consultant physician in Geriatric and […]