A Westport-based company will create 150 new technology jobs after raising €8.3 million in a new round of funding. The payroll tech company, Payslip, which was founded by former Taxback CEO Fidelma McGuirk, will provide the new jobs mostly in software engineering, taking the number of staff employed by the firm to almost 200. The news is a […]
Irish Rail could be sued.
The White House said Joe Biden “expressed his support for a ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas on a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US president Joe Biden has indicated his support for a ceasefire in the Middle East after weeks of uncertainty about the US administration’s policy towards the latest outbreak of […]
Serious allegations were made in the Seanad.
A Cork TD has accused both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine of gross negligence and failing in their duty to protect the Irish Fishing sector. Rural Independent TD Michael Collins said that he had challenged the Taoiseach, the Minister and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) on what he […]
Ireland has been scored as the eighth worst country in the world in the Nanny State Index just published by the European Policy Information Center and the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA). Christopher Snowdon of the IEA said that “the pandemic was a reminder of the difference between a genuine public health problem that requires […]
There is however significantly more support for the medical use of cannabis, with 54% of respondents in favour.
Some of the books and films on the prescribed list for the English curriculum in secondary schools contain “explicit graphic sexual content including sex between older adults and minors, bestiality and violence including torture.” That’s according to former Minister of State in the Department of Education, Willie O’Dea who has submitted a question to the Minister […]
A US based firm is collecting nearly $1,000 more in average rent in Ireland than in the United States, the Sunday Business Post has reported. SBP’s Killian Woods says “New filings published by the US real estate firm, which has 2,067 rental units in Ireland, show the average monthly rent in its Irish residential portfolio […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol has accused Sinn Féin of speaking out of both sides of its mouth when it comes to the government’s Climate Action Bill. The legislation, which seeks to achieve zero carbon emissions bu 2050, has been described as a measure that will “kill off the Irish farmer” according to rural […]
Gardaí have confirmed that no RTÉ staff will be prosecuted for a party held in Montrose during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Creaven, with an address at Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire, was remanded in custody until sentencing in July.