Mother and Baby Home activists Breeda Murphy, Eunan Duffy and Frank Brehany discuss the redress scheme for survivors announced yesterday by Minister for Children Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Roderic O’Gorman (top).
#Otd 1953: Most of the human inhabitants of the Great Blasket Island, #Kerry evacuated to mainland. Many of the descendants currently live in Springfield, Massachusetts & some still live on Dingle peninsula. Ó Suilleabháins did not leave until Jan 1954. https://t.co/pauvwZDajVpic.twitter.com/Rofe8n7Cj5
Independent Clare TD Michael McNamara challenged the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee on the scientific basis for expanding vaccine passports.
Mr McNamara said:
“We know the vaccinated can efficiently transmit Covid-19, including to vaccinated people. That is the science and is generally accepted. What is the scientific rationale for continuing and expanding vaccination certificates? Is there a shred of evidence for this?
“It appears that there was no evidence in Wales. The matter was discussed in the Welsh Assembly. What evidence does the Government have to do that?
If there is no evidence, why are we doing it other than to deflect blame from a Government that has done nothing to address the capacity issues in our healthcare system?
“There are 95 people on trolleys in Limerick today. Over the past eight weeks, there were 27 outbreaks linked to hospitality, eight in gyms, six in hairdressers and 283 in healthcare settings. One might say the 95 people on trolleys are a result of the upturn in Covid, but that is not the case.
“On the hottest day this year, when there were only 95 people in the entire country in hospital with Covid-19, there were 49 people on trolleys in Limerick. The issue of overcrowding in Limerick is clearly exacerbated by, but not limited to, Covid. I discussed this issue with the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, when he was Minister for Health. He promised the sun, moon and stars with regard to the elimination of overcrowding. Nothing has been done.
“Instead of dealing with the problems and lack of capacity in our healthcare system, the Government is focusing on increasing outdoor dining in the middle of winter and expanding a vaccine pass for which I have seen no evidence. If I am shown evidence for it I am willing to consider it, but I see none for it. That exemplifies what is wrong with our Covid response in this State and why we are failing.”
From @paulcullenit in the Irish Times today. "Last year there were 30-50 hospital admissions per 1,000 cases; this year the ratio currently stands at 35 admissions per 1,000 cases" We need to increase ICU provision, and stop seeing vaccines as a silver bullet. pic.twitter.com/CfMCoXwiJ6
If government is going to rely on this particular tool to the extent that it has, then it would want to making a more convincing argument about its benefits, and it should mitigate the discriminatory effects by allowing people to get certs with a negative test.
It’s a literal shed in Finglas for €1160 a month. Worse, if I put a couple of minutes into looking harder, I could probably find 2 more even more expensive ones.
Data in these reports should be interpreted in context of vaccine coverage. As vast majority (90%) of adult population in Ireland is fully vaccinated, even with a highly effective vaccine, we expect to see more deaths in vaccinated group than much smaller unvaccinated group.
— HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) (@hpscireland) November 16, 2021
‘Rudolf’s Red Nose Radar’ has been ‘installed’ on the roof of Shannon Airport
Here’s Shannta!
Nandi O’Sullivan writes:
Shannon Group has announced that a special seasonal flight to the Arctic Circle will lift off this December from Shannon Airport.
To celebrate the airport is launching a special competition for a fairy-tale trip for a lucky family on Thursday 2nd December to Santa’s home in Lapland over 4,000 km away.
Online entry forms are available on the Shannon Airport website from November 17. To win all you need to do is fill in the competition form and say why you would like to win and what you would like for Christmas.
To ensure all competition entries get to their destination in warp time, the latest technology has been installed at the airport. Thanks to this revolutionary technology entries will be beamed direct to the North Pole through the world’s first Rudolph Red Nose Radar system which has been specially installed on the roof of the airport terminal building…
