By now, you’ve probably heard it a million times that to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, people need to adopt social distancing measures — including remaining at least 2 meters apart from anyone they encounter outside their homes. This is what Galway looks like today. The beautiful tourist...
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Government Unity Call Over Covid-19 Vaccinations; PO 20th Anniversary Marred by Mucha Defection
This week has seen government calls for the Covid-19 vaccination campaign to be put above party politics as pressure mounts for the easing of restrictions on economic activity from the end of the month, as well as the main opposition party, Platforma Obywatelska, marking twenty years...
Call for action – send a supporting e-mail in defense of Dr de Brun to Irish medical Council📣
We are turning to you again to ask you to support a fantastic doctor, honest and compassionate doctor Marcus de Brun who may pay a price of losing his license because he spoke on behalf of nursing homes residents whose situation in March last year was badly mismanaged by HSE as well as he...
Power Struggle in Porozumienie; Further Easing of Lockdown; Poland Expels Russian Diplomat
This week an extraordinary, or maybe indeed more accurately bizarre, power struggle has rocked Porozumienie, one of the two smaller parties that are part of the Prawo i Sprawiedliswość – led government, with claims that the senior partner in that coalition may have a hand in the goings-on...
Threat to Reverse Easing of Lockdown; Gowin Seeks Removal of Rebel Porozumienie Ministers
This week we’ve had the spectacle of a government minister threatening a reversal of the modest recent easing of the Covid-19 restrictions, on the pretext of a rise in the number of ‘cases’ and also much condemnation of allegedly ‘irresponsible’ behaviour in Zakopane at the weekend; it...

