The Gist: Seeing Double
The US has achieved a new President, the UK's shelves have started to look bare and the only music left is sea shanties. This is the Gist.
Simon McGarr
A lawyer with McGarr Solicitors and director of Data Compliance Europe. Senior Policy Advisor for M3AAWG, guest lecturer with ERA in Trier & External Examiner for Irish Law Society on Data Protection.
The Gist: Drop the Dead Donkey
Demonstrating an hitherto unknown ability to not stab itself in the eye needlessly, the Government went out onto the airwaves to let the word go out- The Commission Report was dead to them.
The Gist: A bad confession on Mother & Baby Homes
Picking up the leitmotif of the year so far, the government want to assure you, it is someone else’s fault. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Any news?
Nazis storm the US Capitol building, the Leaving cert looks shaky, everyone is annoyed and it is only Wednesday. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Can't spell Pandemic without Panic
The Government is shook, but not as much as the public, as the Covid numbers explore the upper reaches of infection number charts.
The Gist: The Worst Lock-In Ever
The numbers are ballooning, the consequences will be tragic and the government is compounding its political error by refusing to admit it. This is the Gist.
The Gist: A small thank you
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The Gist: 2020? Burn it down
Christmas approaches and the nation staggers towards it, adult children perplexedly discovering they needed to order their own turkeys weeks ago. This is the Gist.
The Gist: Storms in a Tweetcup
They're poised to inherit Fianna Fáil's earth and have been enjoying the sunny uplands of the polls since the election. But lately, SF have been having no craic with Twitter.
The Gist: Changed, but not utterly
The only magic humanity has ever made real was creating a system which removed power with little pieces of paper. This is the Gist.
Mothers, Babies, Homes and their Data
The Government rammed through a piece of legislation taking possession of the data collected by the Commission of Inquiry into Mother and Baby homes, planning to seal it for 30 years.
The Gist: Level 5, mar dhea
The big news broke as the evening drew in. NEPHET, the health experts were going to recommend a ‘circuit breaker’- a nationwide jump to Level 5 restrictions. This is the Gist.