It was recommended that Limerick Prison implement measures during the Covid-19 lockdowns "to mitigate the detrimental effects of isolation or quarantine, including psychological support." This recommendation had been accepted by the IPS and a mental health protocol had been put in place by its psychology team which was that "information regarding mental health wellbeing in isolation [be] conveyed through the prison TV channel" (how helpful....). Despite these recommendations, the man was kept in solitary confinement (regardless of several negative covid tests).
Even if this man had had covid, there was no reason for him to be kept in extremely harmful isolation over what is (for most people) a mild to moderate short-lived virus. He should still be alive. Instead, he died alone, hanging in a cell. How many more suicides happened as a result of lockdown measures? How many other harms were unnecessarily caused by government overreach and unscientific measures? Far more people died as a result of lockdowns that they did from covid (delayed cancer diagnosis and treatments, suicides etc).
Now it looks like they're going to try it all again. Reports say Japan is experiencing a flu epidemic and "Ireland is bracing itself." The WHO Pandemic Treaty was signed in May 2025 by over 130 countries. The Irish government signed it too (the people of Ireland had no say of course). Now the WHO (an unelected UN body) can declare a pandemic at any time with no need to meet any criteria (such as a certain number of deaths). It is a legally binding agreement that will compel countries to implement mandatory jabs and lockdowns. Additionally, the rights of the individual will be subjugated and taken away (under the guise of) if it is deemed these rights affect the rights of the many.