If you want to see what it looks like when a newspaper teams up with a pharma company to blackmail taxpayers into funding expensive drugs which independent assessors have turned down on cost/benefits grounds, just take a look at the front page of the Express. Certain Irish media outlets are amateurs by comparison.
Bodger
+ 1
jusayinlike
+1
Grunt
Compulsory vaccines? What could go wrong? If Simon Harris is in charge then probably everything.
Nevertheless – as the globo shills on here are about to prove – our descent into fascism is almost complete. All that’s left now is to lock up and execute anyone suspected of ‘wrongthink’.
Truth had no place in the Ireland of Leo’s lies.
SOQ
Two things that prevent the spreading of an infectious disease are mass screening and where possible, mass vaccinations. The male gay community are literally living literal proof of this.
People who test HIV+ are immediately put onto treatment which brings their viral load down to the point where they are no longer infectious and in countries where PrEP has been introduced, the number of new cases fall dramatically.
It is not compulsory for either of these groups to take these medications but when they do, the virus is almost stopped in its tracks. Pretty sure that if there was a vaccine against HIV, the uptake would be near 100%. A cynic may say that there is more profit in treatments than cures but that is another story.
Nigel
But, uh, ‘globo?’ Wha’ dat?
MaryLou's ArmaLite
By the look of it Truth has no place in your head.
Grunt
You realise that by deleting my comment you’ve just proved your globo-fascist-bias and disingenuous intent to control all discussion so that truth may be is squeezed out in favour of propaganda,
I hope you get paid well for your lies.
Otherwise why do it?
Bodger
Grunt, sorry. Your comment went straight into moderation and is there now. We do welcome all views.
Grunt
If you welcome all views then this:
Vaccines are commercialized toxins of benefit only to the globalised pharmaceutical industry who profit from the peddling of this poison. Harris is their puppet.
They best way to prevent disease is hygiene.
Poisoning children is not big. Or clever. But it is profitable when your government lackey insists on making your poison mandatory for all children.
Mickey Twopints
Your views being welcome doesn’t mean they’re not open to ridicule.
SOQ
OK so can you point us to a country where vaccinations do not take place please?
Rob_G
“Random internet commenter smarter than all doctors and immunologists in the world – wins Nobel prize, universally-lauded, beds many beautiful & exotic women as a result”
Mickey Twopints
Anti vaxxer, climate change denier, novice troll.
Hang on, I need to run down to the shop to stock up on popcorn first.
scottser
Hey man, make your own popcorn. Or are you just another shill for the globo snack fascists?
Nigel
Pfft, another lackey shilling for the globalised hygiene industry.
martco
ha
feckin KNEW my granda’s shares in Pears Coal Tar soap would pay off someday!
:)
Nigel
Vaccine? VacCLEAN, more like.
millie st murderlark
Do you welcome outright lies, Bodger?
eoin
Top courts reporter Tom Tuite gives the Mail its front page today. Tom also writes the story for the Times Ireland. Tom would be a freelancer.
It illustrates how papers are not only making efficiencies by merging operations for different titles they publish but they’re now buying in the same story from freelancers.
And for the sixth day in a row, the Times Ireland is a skimpy issue of yesterday’s news and a few opinions.
eoin
Did anyone notice how Met Eireann sneakily expanded its weather warning to Dublin?
“A Status Yellow wind warning remains in place for Munster, Connacht, Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Wicklow, Offaly and Donegal until 9am.” reports RTE at 7am today.
Dublin wasn’t included yesterday, despite a proper weather forecasting organisation (the French one used by Carlow Weather) showing Dublin would experience winds of 90 kmh+, which was the threshold for Met Eireann issuing a yellow warning for other counties.
Are Met Eireann’s warnings now pre-scrutinised by shopkeepers?
It’s important Cu. If there’s a danger, we need to know in advance.
GiggidyGoo
Didnt notice that. But what I do notice in certain retailers is the mis-labelling of prices. Low price advertised, and a higher price charged. A bit like the system the Met Office uses – Red Labels, Yellow Labels, Orange Labels.
martco
dunno but watch yourselves out there for next few hours the gusts are fairly powerful, I’m just after helping a fella blown off his bike up off the floor, big 1200 BMW too not a bicycle
beware
eoin
Why is no-one asking Coveney what will happen if the Northern Ireland political parties can’t agree a power sharing deal by 24 May? Will Coveney squeam and squeam until he soils himself? Why would the DUP want a return to the oxygen-sucking trudge at Stormont when it holds Theresa May to ransom in the House of Commons?
GiggidyGoo
And why haven’t Coveney and his counterfoil Karen Bradley been trying harder and setting themselves deadlines regarding Northern Ireland? Could it be because Ms. Bradley hasn’t an iota about her job and that it entails actually knowing something about the history of NI?
SOQ
I think perhaps the motivation is different this time around. It is not about the two governments waving a big stick, it is about a very angry NI public demanding accountability. Both the DUP and SF need to be very careful that their red lines don’t catch fire because at this point, neither are a priority to most of the general populace.
Nigel
I don’t think anyone who says ‘Will Coveney squeam and squeam until he soils himself?’ is particularly interested in what’s actually going on.
eoin
Having watched Coveney and his predecessor Flanagan do precisely nothing practical to help restore a functioning executive at Stormont, and Coveney displaying a wonderful ignorance of the issues and the parties, 27 months later, he exploits the killing of Lyra and spends four hours (four!) travelling from Cork to Belfast to impose an artificial deadline of 24 May for the parties to iron out their differences. Or what? Or the DUP continue to focus their efforts on Westminster where they hold the balance of power? The DUP must be quaking in their parading boots.
Nigel
Yes, obviously. Literally nobody can make these people form a functioning executive until they decide they want to. There is no political leverage, and as for moral leverage, while I woudn’t go so far as to say they were unmoved by the death of Lyra McKee, I will state for the record that it will come to mean completely different things to different people. Sneering at Coveney for taking a rare opportunity to try and push something through is stupid. There’s an outside chance something might come of it. So, yes, you’re more interested in belabouring over asinine attacks on Coveney, who’s a lightweight, yes, than in what is actually going on.
eoin
“No need for passports as Heathrow goes hi‑tech, Facial recognition means passengers won’t have to show travel documents, Passengers travelling from Heathrow will be able to check in and board their flight without showing a passport from this summer. A £50 million project to install permanent facial recognition technology at Britain’s biggest airport is intended to reduce time spent passing through by up to a third” says the Times London today.
The frogs in the cookingpot of our neighboring jurisdiction really have no idea how they’re sleepwalking into a police state.
Mickey Twopints
Saw this tech up close and personal at LGW recently. Executive summary: It doesn’t work because people are not algorithmically correct.
GiggidyGoo
Couple of earlier comments about Harris and his vaccination jabs are missing, yet the comment count includes them. (Comments = 8, only 6 appearing).
eoin
RTE’s Dancing with the Stars, the format they bought in from the UK, is facing the axe because loss-making RTE doesn’t have the budget, according to the Daily Mirror today.
Here’s one way RTE could save €2 million a year, stop paying a €0.5 million annual membership fee to the secretive Swiss organisation run by RTE’s former boss, the European Broadcasting Union. Stop paying the EBU €1.3 million for facilities and news from Europe, and stop paying the EBU an undisclosed amount (RTE says it’s commercially sensitive) for certain European sports. RTE doesn’t have to be a member of the EBU and given the EBU is artswashing Israeli activity against the Palestinians by holding the Eurovision there next month, now might be a good time for loss-making RTE to both tighten the purse-strings and perform a moral deed and tell the EBU to fupp off. Ireland did after all give the world the term “boycott”.
[PS, if you’re reading the Mirror article which calls for pegging the licence fee to inflation, remember inflation has been flat since the licence fee was last increased in 2009 and the population has increased by 10% which should equate to 10% more licence fees paid. In other words,loss-making RTE are whiny divas who can’t manage their budgets]
rotide
“the population has increased by 10% which should equate to 10% more licence fees paid.”
Wow, that’s some top of the class reasoning right there.
If you want to see what it looks like when a newspaper teams up with a pharma company to blackmail taxpayers into funding expensive drugs which independent assessors have turned down on cost/benefits grounds, just take a look at the front page of the Express. Certain Irish media outlets are amateurs by comparison.
+ 1
+1
Compulsory vaccines? What could go wrong? If Simon Harris is in charge then probably everything.
Nevertheless – as the globo shills on here are about to prove – our descent into fascism is almost complete. All that’s left now is to lock up and execute anyone suspected of ‘wrongthink’.
Truth had no place in the Ireland of Leo’s lies.
Two things that prevent the spreading of an infectious disease are mass screening and where possible, mass vaccinations. The male gay community are literally living literal proof of this.
People who test HIV+ are immediately put onto treatment which brings their viral load down to the point where they are no longer infectious and in countries where PrEP has been introduced, the number of new cases fall dramatically.
It is not compulsory for either of these groups to take these medications but when they do, the virus is almost stopped in its tracks. Pretty sure that if there was a vaccine against HIV, the uptake would be near 100%. A cynic may say that there is more profit in treatments than cures but that is another story.
But, uh, ‘globo?’ Wha’ dat?
By the look of it Truth has no place in your head.
You realise that by deleting my comment you’ve just proved your globo-fascist-bias and disingenuous intent to control all discussion so that truth may be is squeezed out in favour of propaganda,
I hope you get paid well for your lies.
Otherwise why do it?
Grunt, sorry. Your comment went straight into moderation and is there now. We do welcome all views.
If you welcome all views then this:
Vaccines are commercialized toxins of benefit only to the globalised pharmaceutical industry who profit from the peddling of this poison. Harris is their puppet.
They best way to prevent disease is hygiene.
Poisoning children is not big. Or clever. But it is profitable when your government lackey insists on making your poison mandatory for all children.
Your views being welcome doesn’t mean they’re not open to ridicule.
OK so can you point us to a country where vaccinations do not take place please?
“Random internet commenter smarter than all doctors and immunologists in the world – wins Nobel prize, universally-lauded, beds many beautiful & exotic women as a result”
Anti vaxxer, climate change denier, novice troll.
Hang on, I need to run down to the shop to stock up on popcorn first.
Hey man, make your own popcorn. Or are you just another shill for the globo snack fascists?
Pfft, another lackey shilling for the globalised hygiene industry.
ha
feckin KNEW my granda’s shares in Pears Coal Tar soap would pay off someday!
:)
Vaccine? VacCLEAN, more like.
Do you welcome outright lies, Bodger?
Top courts reporter Tom Tuite gives the Mail its front page today. Tom also writes the story for the Times Ireland. Tom would be a freelancer.
It illustrates how papers are not only making efficiencies by merging operations for different titles they publish but they’re now buying in the same story from freelancers.
And for the sixth day in a row, the Times Ireland is a skimpy issue of yesterday’s news and a few opinions.
Did anyone notice how Met Eireann sneakily expanded its weather warning to Dublin?
“A Status Yellow wind warning remains in place for Munster, Connacht, Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Wexford, Wicklow, Offaly and Donegal until 9am.” reports RTE at 7am today.
Dublin wasn’t included yesterday, despite a proper weather forecasting organisation (the French one used by Carlow Weather) showing Dublin would experience winds of 90 kmh+, which was the threshold for Met Eireann issuing a yellow warning for other counties.
Are Met Eireann’s warnings now pre-scrutinised by shopkeepers?
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2018/1224/1018932-retailers-to-meet-with-met-eireann-over-weather-alerts/
You’re on fire today Eoin..,
It’s important Cu. If there’s a danger, we need to know in advance.
Didnt notice that. But what I do notice in certain retailers is the mis-labelling of prices. Low price advertised, and a higher price charged. A bit like the system the Met Office uses – Red Labels, Yellow Labels, Orange Labels.
dunno but watch yourselves out there for next few hours the gusts are fairly powerful, I’m just after helping a fella blown off his bike up off the floor, big 1200 BMW too not a bicycle
beware
Why is no-one asking Coveney what will happen if the Northern Ireland political parties can’t agree a power sharing deal by 24 May? Will Coveney squeam and squeam until he soils himself? Why would the DUP want a return to the oxygen-sucking trudge at Stormont when it holds Theresa May to ransom in the House of Commons?
And why haven’t Coveney and his counterfoil Karen Bradley been trying harder and setting themselves deadlines regarding Northern Ireland? Could it be because Ms. Bradley hasn’t an iota about her job and that it entails actually knowing something about the history of NI?
I think perhaps the motivation is different this time around. It is not about the two governments waving a big stick, it is about a very angry NI public demanding accountability. Both the DUP and SF need to be very careful that their red lines don’t catch fire because at this point, neither are a priority to most of the general populace.
I don’t think anyone who says ‘Will Coveney squeam and squeam until he soils himself?’ is particularly interested in what’s actually going on.
Having watched Coveney and his predecessor Flanagan do precisely nothing practical to help restore a functioning executive at Stormont, and Coveney displaying a wonderful ignorance of the issues and the parties, 27 months later, he exploits the killing of Lyra and spends four hours (four!) travelling from Cork to Belfast to impose an artificial deadline of 24 May for the parties to iron out their differences. Or what? Or the DUP continue to focus their efforts on Westminster where they hold the balance of power? The DUP must be quaking in their parading boots.
Yes, obviously. Literally nobody can make these people form a functioning executive until they decide they want to. There is no political leverage, and as for moral leverage, while I woudn’t go so far as to say they were unmoved by the death of Lyra McKee, I will state for the record that it will come to mean completely different things to different people. Sneering at Coveney for taking a rare opportunity to try and push something through is stupid. There’s an outside chance something might come of it. So, yes, you’re more interested in belabouring over asinine attacks on Coveney, who’s a lightweight, yes, than in what is actually going on.
“No need for passports as Heathrow goes hi‑tech, Facial recognition means passengers won’t have to show travel documents, Passengers travelling from Heathrow will be able to check in and board their flight without showing a passport from this summer. A £50 million project to install permanent facial recognition technology at Britain’s biggest airport is intended to reduce time spent passing through by up to a third” says the Times London today.
The frogs in the cookingpot of our neighboring jurisdiction really have no idea how they’re sleepwalking into a police state.
Saw this tech up close and personal at LGW recently. Executive summary: It doesn’t work because people are not algorithmically correct.
Couple of earlier comments about Harris and his vaccination jabs are missing, yet the comment count includes them. (Comments = 8, only 6 appearing).
RTE’s Dancing with the Stars, the format they bought in from the UK, is facing the axe because loss-making RTE doesn’t have the budget, according to the Daily Mirror today.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/dancing-with-the-stars-ireland-14739725
Here’s one way RTE could save €2 million a year, stop paying a €0.5 million annual membership fee to the secretive Swiss organisation run by RTE’s former boss, the European Broadcasting Union. Stop paying the EBU €1.3 million for facilities and news from Europe, and stop paying the EBU an undisclosed amount (RTE says it’s commercially sensitive) for certain European sports. RTE doesn’t have to be a member of the EBU and given the EBU is artswashing Israeli activity against the Palestinians by holding the Eurovision there next month, now might be a good time for loss-making RTE to both tighten the purse-strings and perform a moral deed and tell the EBU to fupp off. Ireland did after all give the world the term “boycott”.
[PS, if you’re reading the Mirror article which calls for pegging the licence fee to inflation, remember inflation has been flat since the licence fee was last increased in 2009 and the population has increased by 10% which should equate to 10% more licence fees paid. In other words,loss-making RTE are whiny divas who can’t manage their budgets]
“the population has increased by 10% which should equate to 10% more licence fees paid.”
Wow, that’s some top of the class reasoning right there.