LEAFING through dog eared copies of thesauruses reporters are struggling to remember how many times they have used ‘catastrophic’, ‘cataclysmic’, ‘grim’, ‘decimated’, ‘disaster’ and ‘the bit in Titanic when the ship snaps in half’ to describe the recent deterioration in the capacity of the health service to treat an explosion in the number of Covid-19… Read more »
RUGBY fans rejoice; the Six Nations championship is set to go ahead this year with added measures in place to ensure a safe, Covid-free environment, while the Women’s Championship has been postponed following a risk assessment that ascertained that nobody really cared enough. “It wasn’t worth our while holding a tournament that would expose the… Read more »
AS survivors still trawl through the Mother & Baby Homes report that was handed to government in October 2020 and only given to survivors after it was first leaked to the media, the Taoiseach confirmed that with an apology made, there is no need to dwell on any aspect of the report now labeled ‘a… Read more »
WATERFORD’S foremost Qanon advocate and long-time conspiracy headcase Ian Rafferty is today wondering what somebody has to do to get kicked off Twitter these days, after years of venomous tweeting proved not enough to warrant an expulsion from the platform in the last couple of days. With some 70,000 alt-right members, white supremacists and Qanon… Read more »
AS THE initial rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination is criticsed for its slow pace, and young and health people face the prospect of not receiving a jab until the end of the year at the earliest if the current pace is maintained, many are considering ways in which they can skip the lengthy queue. OK,… Read more »
THE CATHOLIC church has ‘apologised unreservedly’ for its very small, barely significant part in setting up and running Mother and Baby Homes for 70 plus years which proved to be a bottomless pit of immense cruelty and inhumanity down which they gleefully threw 56,000 women. Experts with previous experience of church apologies in Ireland have… Read more »
A SHEEPISH Irish nation woke with the unrelenting feeling of existential dread this morning after realising it, and not the Church and State, played the leading role in the decades of abuse, slavery and neglect of thousands of mother and babies, as detailed by a recent state commissioned report. Previously pinning the vast majority of… Read more »
AS THE survivors of the mother and baby homes digest the immense cruelty meted out by the person who leaked parts of the mother and baby homes report to the media, a member of government well known for leaking confidential documents and receiving no punishment has assured survivors whoever leaked the report would definitely be… Read more »
UNDER pressure Minister for Health When There’s Good PR Stephen Donnelly has confirmed it is beyond tragic that no one, not a single person in NPHET, the wider healthcare system, international experts or the dog on the street ever mentioned risk of exponential growth in Covid cases if the government opened up in person dining… Read more »
SOMEONE WITHIN government or the civil service leaking details of the Mother & Baby Homes report to newspapers. The Sunday Independent publishing it. Meaning this is how survivors first learned details from the report including that 9,000 children died in mother and baby homes. The human trafficking of children by the church. For profit. The… Read more »