A new report has shown that even as economies are contracting and concerns about employment rise, the richest people in the world have seen their wealth rocket by a massive 27% during the COVID-19 crisis. A report by Swiss bank UBS and accounting firm PwC, found that global billionaire wealth climbed to a staggering $10.2 trillion […]
October 7th, 1571: The Ottoman Empire has been expanding westwards for over a century. In 1453, over a hundred years earlier, it had conquered Constantinople, and destroyed the Byzantine Empire. Now, the most powerful military force in the world, it threatens the very heart of Christian Europe. Across the continent, children are warned about the […]
Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has slammed NPEHT for the irresponsible manner in which they have leaked their recommendations that the entire country should be moved to level 5 to the media. The Independent TD has said that such news is detrimental to the business community and wider society and has called on NPHET to be […]
Deputy Tóibín later wrote that: “In my 10 years in Leinster House I have never seen such an absence of democracy.”
The leading medical experts who provide care to people with terminal illnesses and those at the end of their lives have come out strongly against Assisted Suicide being legalised in Ireland. Senior palliative care specialists from the Irish Palliative Medicine Consultants’ Association (IPMCA) have written to TDs to say that they are opposed to “any […]
Deputy Michael McNamara has shed renewed light on the manner in which many countries, including Ireland, are counting Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
Muhammed Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the so-called “thrilla in Manila”, on this day, October 1st, 1975. The fight, the third and final between Ali and Frazier, got its name from Ali’s rhyming boast that the fight would be “a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get that gorilla in Manila.” The […]
The Garda Commissioner has said gardaí do not have the power, and are not seeking the power, under Covid-19 regulations to break up parties or gatherings in homes parties if no breaches of the criminal law are taking place. Commissioner Drew Harris said he would not be in favour of granting members of the force […]
The Taoiseach has told the Dáil that the Department of Education has found two errors in the Leaving Certificate calculated grades system.
The HSE has confirmed that they have no national system in place to identify and report when the use of abortion pills goes wrong. This means that important data on when abortion pills cause harm to women is not being reported in the same way as happens with other aspects of services provided by the […]
“The people who are losing their jobs, the people who are losing their salaries, can’t pay their mortgages, now really someone has to talk for those people.”
It’s the most famous dam in the world, and it was officially dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt on this day, September 30th, 1935. Originally, it was simply called “the Boulder dam”, after the Boulder Canyon, in which it was built. It was renamed for President Herbert Hoover in 1947. The Dam was built to provide […]