The Gist: We’re doing masks now
Ireland's Covid Tracing App launched, to public enthusiasm. Even privacy advocates gave it a guarded welcome. But is this the right message, right now? 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: Earwax and Spinning Tops
Living online has prompted some to ask questions that they've never faced before. I want to address the least important of those questions. What's with all the Earwax Ads?
The Gist: A Burning Injustice
OK. Let’s do this. My tone is wrong, the format is wrong and the medium isn’t able to do justice to the profound depth of the story. But silence isn’t good enough. This is the Gist. Police Riots The US policing system, faced with a few days
The Gist: The Nearest Neighbour
Looking to the East before looking to the West. It has been a hard few years for Ireland’s view of our neighbours, home to families and friends. What happened? This is the Gist. Nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown The UK’s Brexit vote in 2016 seemed
The Gist: Schools Out Forever?
As the second-level schools peter out, and the parents of primary school children start to dream of a July without any online assignments to oversee, the Minister for Education has taken to the airwaves. This is the Gist. Leaving Cert, Departed The Minister for Education was very clear. The Leaving
The Gist: A power vacuum
What’s going on? Aside from the daily statistical count of infections and deaths, it’s hard to know. With the Dáil attenuated, the Government is answerable to no one. Some Ministers don’t even have constituents to worry about, because they’re not TDs any more. The one thing
The Gist: A Lost Summer
The national escape tunnel has been planned, but can FF escape their darkness?
The Gist: Bleaching and Creeping
This is hard. And it turns out, that includes for the people in charge too.
The Gist: Leaders Questions, few answers
The Dáil was back in session today. Like the rest of the world, its work continues. Just very slowly.
The Gist: What's with the Covid Apps?
Across the world, mass population tracking apps are being deployed or developed. I try to get to the Gist.
The Gist: A Most Expensive Bargain
Michael has purchased his stint as Taoiseach from Fine Gael and it only cost Fianna Fáil everything
The Gist: How we live now
Extensions to the restrictions prompt thoughts on what comes next