Be strict with the quarantine rules as people come into Ireland both north and south. A large number of our population feel it financially.ĭespite the good news that Pfizer is reporting a 90% success rate for its new vaccine, it will be 12 months or more before it is ready for mass injection.įor us in Ireland as an island, we should and could keep the virus out by significant testing at airports and seaports.
There is no doubt that here in the western world our economy is significantly affected. Thankfully due to mass communication, and access to hygiene products, we are able to vastly reduce the effect on us humans. It goes to show what progress has been made in science in 100 years. At the time of writing the death toll in the Covid-19 pandemic is 1.3 million out of a population of 7.5 billion (World Health Organisation).īoth viruses are invisible. The Spanish flu killed an estimated 60 million globally in the years 1918/19, at a time when the world population was under two billion. Let’s hope it is the real McCoy elixir to complement all current WHO public-health advisories to continually curb the devastating and debilitating scourge of Covid-19. One always has to practice a healthy balancing of robust enquiry and genial acceptance in these matters, especially when corporate entities are on the cusp of a global bonanza. Such surly scepticism may seem curiously curmudgeonly in light of the restrictions prevailing for so many, but we must always be afforded opportunity to seek total transparency regarding something so fundamentally challenging to our personal and collective worlds. The stirring news that Pfizer has reported surprisingly positive results from their ongoing Covid-19 vaccine research should surely be tempered with a seriously circumspect caution. Sinn Féin is solely concerned with biding its time in a pattern of self-pitying rituals of national defiance when the opportunity arises to pose as a genuine political alternative. The absence of Sinn Féin leadership from the Poppy Day remembrance at Enniskillen alongside Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster is a direct indication that Sinn Féin will never be part of any genuine peace. SF will never be part of any genuine peace I take the view that some of those who wear the poppy do so to antagonise the living more so than to honour the dead. It is unfortunate that the sacrifice of these brave men and women continues to be used as an emotional and dishonest basis for propaganda purposes. What is not acceptable is the persistent campaign waged to confer a modern day respectability upon the British army under the guise of honouring those Irish war dead. It is entirely proper that public ceremonies be held to commemorate the many thousands of Irish who went away to fight in the Great War and never returned.
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Unfortunately, this ceremony, which is devoid of the military jingoism associated with similar commemorations in the North and Britain, does not satisfy everyone, as there continues to be a demand for the full participation of the Irish State in the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies of the Royal British Legion. These ceremonies are attended by the President, Taoiseach, and the leaders of all the main churches and is both appropriate and dignified. The first Sunday of July each year is set aside as the National Day of Commemoration whereby Ireland commemorates, with respect and dignity, all Irish who died in both world wars and on service with the United Nations.
Public ceremonies are held in Ireland to honour those who went away to fight in the Great War and never returned.
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