Nothing to hide? You can relax, Donnie
DONALD Trump has been dealt a devastating blow in his fight to keep his tax records secret.
America’s Supreme Court this week cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to obtain the former President’s financial returns.
The move ends Trump’s repeated attempts to stop investigators from inspecting his declarations.
It means a grand jury investigation into alleged hush-money payments and other issues will no longer be hampered by his fight to keep the documents secret.
If he has nothing to hide, he has nothing to worry about.
Relax Donnie.
WHY is the Government ignoring the public’s wish to introduce mandatory hotel quarantining for all incoming travellers?
Yes, there may be a long-term issue with connectivity but we are an island nation in the midst of a pandemic and surely the primary purpose of this coalition should be to protect the lives of its people.
The argument has been going on for months and finally they produce legislation, but it has a gaping hole – it is not for all travellers.
It is crucial to try and exclude the various variants circulating. Is it too much to ask that they listen to the multiple voices pleading with them to change their minds.
Meanwhile, the British government hopes to lift all remaining restrictions by June 21.
None of this would have been possible without the UK’S highly-successful vaccine programme. This brings me directly on to Dr. Gabriel Scally, President of the Epidemiology and Public Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and native of Belfast. He has been
HOLIDAY FROM HELL
Traveller quarantining in hotel thinking outside the box and he believes we should be talking to Boris Johnson on the basis that “we have a shared territory”.
If he was Taoiseach he “would have a discussion about getting hold of vaccines from the UK and it could make an huge difference”.
All of us share this island and you would expect in the jaws of this pandemic for the government of the Republic and the Northern Executive to sit down and work out how to protect the borders of this island.
Yet the Northern Executive have spent months trying to even get travel data from the Southern authorities.
There simply has not been a joint approach. Now there is a genuine opportunity for a bold move.
Out of the jaws of the pandemic something positive would emerge. In my life I have dreamt impossible dreams – some have come true. I wish our leaders would do the same.