This time last month local radio programme, Tipp Today, broke media ranks by airing the issue of excess deaths.
At the time, Kilkenny journalist Jimmy Rhatigan (who has extensively covered the topic) complemented them in The cat is out of the bag.
Now, just yesterday, local newspaper Tipp Echo took the courageous step of reproducing Rhatigan’s piece.
Maybe it’s because the two neighbours, and arch-rivals in hurling, have been suffering similar fates in recent years?
Following on from the OECD report conversation and Patrick E. Walsh’s subsequent rebuttal, Tipp Today featured Dr. Billy Ralph on January 10th.
The GP shared his perspective on the excess deaths in Ireland and how the response to COVID affected his practice and patients.
In his interview Patrick mentions some links. He has provided them on his Substack.
Did the report use the most appropriate figures to base calculations on?
Is the hyping of the report preparing the public for what the official COVID review is going to find?
Are the three years 2020, 2021 and 2022 being lumped together to disguise the facts that
Explore the figures yourself on IrelandExcessDeaths.com and RIPcounties.ie 1Each site use different methods of counting RIP.ie death notices. Hence some slight variance in their numbers. But the trends they identify are the same.
Related: Tipp Today. Is There hope? OECD: no excess deaths in Ireland 2020-2022
But… Jan 3rd audience comments and how the host Alison spoke suggest considerable scepticism.1Extracted from the full podcast recording here. Even amongst some who have taken a transfection.
The first 19 minutes feature Prof Anthony Staines exceptional mental and verbal gymnastics talking about the OECD report.
For those reading from abroad… “Tipp” is short for the county of Tipperary – which has seen a noticeable upswing in deaths in recent years:
