Fears mounting among health officials about the Bank Holiday weekend.
Proposed housing debt would represent 1.5% of GDP.
This week, the Government announced that it would be increasing the property tax, which, as you all know, goes to fund local government and county councils. Later today, Niamh and I will have duelling articles on whether increasing the property tax is a good idea. And, sods law being what it is, no sooner was […]
A teenager is being described as a hero after jumping into the River Barrow to save a woman and her daughter who had got into difficulties in the River Barrow in Carlow. Miley Doran who is a member of the Travelling Community has been put forward for a National Bravery Award because of his courage and fast-thinking in […]
“The majority of homeowners are likely to see either a decrease or no change.”
The Final Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality, which was chaired by Catherine Day, states that the Assembly deliberately went beyond the mandate provided to it by the Oireachtas. The Assembly decided that restricting their work to “women and men, boys and girls” as the Oireachtas resolution which created the Assembly ordered them […]
Credit where it is due: this is an interesting, and what Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes Minister fame would have called “courageous” proposal, first reported by Hugh O’Connell of the Independent: “speaking at Government Buildings on Tuesday, Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys said she had asked her officials to examine “pay-related benefit” where a person’s […]
Táinaiste Leo Varadkar has said he “stands over” his decision to have Ireland borrow €36 billion since 2020, saying “it was the right thing to do,” and signalling his intention to raise carbon tax. The remarks were made during an RTÉ One segment this week regarding the soaring budget deficit due to the covid lockdown. […]
“We have to do something to stop the decline.”
A Cork TD has accused the government of “allowing an act of piracy” after what he described as the “harrassment and intimidation of a Castletownbere fishing trawler by a Spanish fishing vessel last weekend”. Rural Independent TD for Cork South West, Michael Collins said the government had failed to take action after the Irish fishing […]
“I almost died from it, so it’s time the HSE started taking the negative reactions a bit more seriously.”
Liam Herrick, CEO of the ICCL. Credit: ICCL For years the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has claimed to be an entirely independent organisation which does not accept government support or money. A Gript investigation, however, found that between 2011 and 2019, the ICCL received somewhere in the region of €2 million in public […]