@wwaycorrigan Shannonside Northern Sound’s Joe Finnegan Show spoke to me as part of their series on Irish people living abroad during the coronavirus pandemic. The evergreen Anne Norris — my news editor for the majority of the time I was working at the station — was...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Whether one agrees or not with the coronavirus pandemic response taken by most of the world, the fact is we’ve all had to live with the constraints for well over a year now. Fear mentality As is well known, and as is the case […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] At the best of times, it’s not easy being a politician. In today’s social-media dominated world, our elected leaders are scrutinised like never before. OK, they willingly sign up for a life in the...
Migración Colombia is struggling to deal with a backlog of cases after resuming services that had been suspended due to the pandemic.
@wwaycorrigan There’s been a lot of frustration expressed on social media about the world’s longest coronavirus-induced lockdown. Since mid-March Colombia has not only been in a state of emergency but also in an ‘obligatory quarantine’. On the face of it,...
@wwaycorrigan Renowned historian and author Niall Ferguson believes Colombia had little option but to impose what he refers to as the ‘pretty blunt instrument’ of a lockdown for dealing with coronavirus. Speaking to Wrong Way’s Colombia Cast podcast (recorded on 19 June) Professor Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, revealed Colombian […]
@wwaycorrigan A sure-fire way to ensure you get the blood up of a large section of readers is to start off a blog post quoting Donald J. Trump. So here goes. The US president tweeted the other day about coronavirus and the measures being taken to control it that ‘We cannot...
