HSE is gambling with ICU capacity
Tempting though it might be to add here to the condemnations concerning Boris Johnson’s perfidious Internal Market Bill, I will repose my hope (if not my trust) in the House of Lords to prevent “Britannia Waives The Rules” from becoming the finale sung at next year’s BBC Proms. We have more immediate problems on hand […]
Trump is a moral monster and a danger to humanity
When Jamal Khassoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2nd October 2018, he was attacked, suffocated and dismembered by a security team of handpicked assassins and medical staff sent from Saudi Arabia in two official aircraft dispatched from Riyadh. All the evidence suggests that this was done on the direction of the Saudi Crown […]
Government must communicate and act as a team during indefinite pandemic
It is now clear that we are going to have to live with COVID-19 in our midst for the indefinite future. The consensus is that we simply cannot succeed in a strategy of killing off completely the virus on the island of Ireland by a re-imposed total lockdown. We are not geographically isolated like New […]
The public will not endure a second lockdown
There was something very unreal, in political terms, in recent commentary on the subject of another general lockdown. It seems to me to be a political impossibility. The public endured the March lockdown with patriotism, fortitude and a clear belief that it was a once-off event designed to prevent a Covid tsunami from collapsing our […]
Would a Biden presidency be good for Ireland?
There is general agreement in Europe that an end to the presidency of Donald Trump cannot come soon enough for a whole series of reasons including the re-establishment of multi-lateralism and an end to the chaotic and aggressive aspects of his international economic policies. After all he seems to loath the EU. Few now write […]
Shelbourne statues debacle raises important issues
It might be tempting to regard the removal of the four statues from the front of the Shelbourne Hotel as a silly season story of little consequence. But there are important issues in play here. Let’s get one thing straight at the start. The statues do not depict slavery in any way. The figures are […]