On Friday afternoon, the news broke that Stobart Air, the regional operator responsible for many flights between Ireland and the UK, was going out of business, becoming the highest profile business casualty of the pandemic to date. Naturally, opposition politicians took to the airwaves to blame the Government for not providing enough “supports” for the […]
The UK’s chief scientific adviser has said scientists working on the pandemic “haven’t got good evidence” to justify imposing the new lockdown measures on places of worship.
Fintan O’Toole is not shy about declaring what he is. His working titles are “historian, biographer, literary critic and political commentator”. To these he adds “acclaimed” columnist, adding that he writes “on Brexit for the Irish Times”, which he calls “a form of self-harm”, adding that it is also “a form of fatal attraction”. His […]