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Almost half of adults have now received booster jab – Taoiseach
Almost half of Ireland’s adult population has now received a Covid vaccine booster, the Taoiseach has said. The update from Micheál Martin came as the HSE warned the country could soon be recording 20,000 confirmed cases a day in a worst case scenario. Mr Martin said, as of Thursday, 49.9Continue Reading
2021: a grim year for journalists and free speech in an increasingly turbulent and authoritarian world
A protester calls for the release of journalist, who covered the initial outbreak of COVID in Wuhan in 2019 and 2020 and was sentenced to four years in prison. EPA-EFE/Miguel Candela Hundreds of journalists killed or arrested, rising numbers of female media workers targeted, floods of misinformation and hate speechContinue Reading
South African and UK hospitalisation data: what it tells us about how deadly omicron is
Recent official South African medical reports and countrywide COVID data have indicated that since early November, when omicron was first detected, COVID cases substantially increased. However, most patients had, at worst, mild symptoms, and cases are now in steep decline. These observations substantially differ from the previous waves, including thoseContinue Reading
Bookmakers, don’t you just hate ’em?
‘We wuz robbed’ and to be honest I’m fed up with the cynicism of our bookmaking profession which is allowed to ‘cheat’ punters unceremoniously! On Tuesday we had one winner and two placed runners which should have given readers/punters useful profit with a place treble and two successful doubles but,Continue Reading
Three new studies suggest omicron has lower hospitalization risk and is milder than other variants
A health worker packages a coronavirus swab test at a Testaro Covid-19 testing site in the Goodwood district of Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The omicron Covid variant is less likely to result in hospitalization and appears milder than earlierContinue Reading
Omicron may not be the final variant, but it may be the final variant of concern
It is controversial whether viruses are alive, but – like all living things – they do evolve. This fact has become abundantly clear during the pandemic, as new variants of concern have emerged every few months. Some of these variants have been better at spreading from person to person, eventuallyContinue Reading
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier: how its collapse could trigger global floods and swallow islands
Glaciers like Antarctica's Byrd Glacier are showing cracks and movement. United States Geological Survey , CC BY-SA The massive Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 65cm if it were to completely collapse. And, worryingly, recent research suggests that its long-term stability isContinue Reading
Man Utd news LIVE: Latest news, updates and transfer gossip from Old Trafford
Nev: TAA and Robertson are Prem’s best ever Gary Neville rates Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson as the Prem’s best ever full-backs. Neville, who played as a right-back at Manchester United, was very impressed with Alexander-Arnold and Robertson during the Reds’ 2-2 draw at Tottenham on Sunday. The footballer-turned-pundit can’t remember twoContinue Reading
Omicron: what the next few weeks will look like
Omicron, the latest variant of concern, was discovered in samples collected on November 8 in South Africa. It rapidly replaced delta as the dominant variant in the country and now accounts for nearly 100% of cases in South Africa. Since then, this latest “variant of concern” has since spread throughoutContinue Reading
Today is just a question of finding the ‘Lady(s)!’
Lady Ardad has a gilt-edged opportunity of making it fifth time lucky in a fourteen-runner Nursery over six furlongs of Southwell tapeta tonight when a complete eight-race racecard has been programmed with handicaps; from my perspective it’s a travesty and disappointing but two-year-olds are my speciality and if Les Eyre’sContinue Reading