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Petrol Stations: The worried face of the Irish Pandemic.

Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 by G

I shouldn’t have opened my mouth really. No sooner had I completed my last post than Leo Varadkar decided to up the social distancing ante. Alas, night time strolls require GPS like accuracy this week. 2 kilometres is the new 2 metres. Stray further at your peril! It seems the country was getting cute and…

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Irish Student Nurses a bright light in the gloomy COVID-19 statistics.

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by G

The number of coronavirus deaths suddenly jumped by 10 people yesterday bringing Ireland’s overall total to 19. May they all rest in peace. If yesterday marks anything, it marks the end of the beginning. For people out there growing increasingly anxious, I would point out that it is a trend consistent with other countries and…

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The New World where 12 Free Range Eggs are the new Bitcoin.

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 by G

“Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.”― Lana Del Rey I won’t lie – I think I might be an All-Ireland champion at this whole social distancing craic. A natural. I’ve taken to going for long walks at around midnight just to absorb the quiet. Stillness has a…

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12 Irish COVID-19 cases needed ICU treatment. Why is no-one asking questions about this?

Posted on March 20, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

I have started a new habit. Once a day Dr. Tony Holohan somberly reveals the daily Irish coronavirus statistics and unless your living on Mars you know today (Mar 20th) brought 126 new cases. Then I wait for an hour to see how the 4 main news sources in the country headline the news. The…

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New York: Are they Italy or are they Ready?

Posted on March 19, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

COVID-19 cases properly broke onto the shores of the United States on March 18th. Testing is starting to ramp up and what testing is revealing is that the coronavirus is already rampant in the United States. It is quite unbelievable that capability to test and process quickly, in the thousands per day, is only really…

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Italian Statistics: 24 days from 1st recorded deaths to Today. Full Statistics Within.

Posted on March 17, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

On the 23rd of February 2020 the WHO recorded the first 2 deaths from coronavirus in Northern Italy. Ireland current has two coronavirus deaths. We track the track the day to day Italian statistics below. It paints a very stark picture. As we will see it was very quickly out of control. We use World…

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We have 270 Public ICU beds in Ireland – We must all fight to protect them

Posted on March 16, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

In essence we are at war in Ireland now. We will all need to start thinking in that mind-frame. No doubt, it is an unusual war and against an invisible enemy. To fight this war we must ask ourselves – What it is our enemy wants. What are our enemy’s goals. At this stage of…

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” Patient 31″ stands between Boris and Churchill

Posted on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 by G

“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” – Winston Churchill I suppose the key to any musing about Boris Johnson is: How much do you buy into the caricature? If you’re already – all in – on this idea of him as…

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The GAA need to take over the response to the Coronavirus

Posted on March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 by G

Our collective reality has changed. Most of the ordinary people of Ireland seem to be ahead of the politicians and the HSE leadership on this point – to name but two slow moving elites. I know that there are still a few pockets of resistance to this idea out there. I am not here to…

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Latest – 17,430 people infected in Europe – full country breakdown inside

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 by G

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have released their latest figures for the coronavirus and the European countries affected. France, Germany and Spain are beginning to see big rises in the numbers of people being infected. These three countries are roughly where Italy was 5 or 6 days ago. The numbers in the…

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March 18th being looked at to begin one month Irish schools shutdown

Posted on March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 by G

The Department of Education issued 3 circulars on March 9th (yesterday) to the different education bodies in the country, including higher education authorities, Training boards and to Secondary & Primary schools.A copy of each circular is at the bottom of this article. Each one states the following to each of it’s addressees: “The Minister for…

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UK and Ireland Daily Coronavirus Tracker – Updated March 9th

Posted on March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 by G

Historic – day by day – look at the daily coronavirus reporting since the beginning of the outbreak. Reporting started on December 31st 2019. All statistics are referenced from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Statistics are accurate as per 09:00 GMT on March 09th 2020. UK and Irish Statistics are followed by…

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Coronavirus and my own brush with an infectious disease in 2014

Posted on March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 by G

My recent Coronavirus interviewing and the fever sweeping the country for the past week got me to thinking about my own brush with mortality over five years ago. In fact, it was a fever that was the first symptom. Ireland is not a country that is a natural habitat for ticks and yet somehow in…

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Sinn Fein add 150 new members a day since the election

Posted on March 6, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

Sinn Fein Head Office is on Parnell Square in Dublin 1. Earlier today I spoke to a new, young recruit manning the phones to gather some Sinn Fein membership information. Last weekend a Sunday Times opinion poll put Sinn Fein support at 35%. This is an almost 11% bounce from election day. The Sinn Fein…

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Prime Time and Miriam O’Callaghan referring to China as ‘A One Party State’ is a cop-out

Posted on March 6, 2020April 2, 2020 by G

Miriam O’Callaghan had the Chinese ambassador to Ireland on Prime Time last night. The questions were pretty softball as the ambassador laid out the extreme measures China utilised to contain the virus in Wuhan and the rest of the Chinese provinces. Then O’Callaghan asked a question, the phrasing of which annoyed me intensely. She was…

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