The Irish Travel Trade Network (ITTN) have just released information on the Covid test requirements for children under 18 across Europe. Travel is starting to open up around Europe, but most countries still have testing requirements for adults. The EU Digital Covid Certificate from 1 July, does not apply to under-18s, most of whom will […]
Rural Independent TDs have said that without major amendments the Climate Action Bill “blatantly attacks the fabric of rural Ireland and our democracy”. Ahead of the Report Stage debate and vote on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill in the Dáil, the Rural Independent TDs hd called on backbench government TDs to […]
Only 25 per cent of children were physically active every day.
The Labour Party’s new policy is a new policy, technically speaking. But it is not a new idea. It is, in fact, almost 50 years old and was first proposed in the Kenny Report of 1973. The report is so old, in fact, that its author, Justice John Kenny, has been dead since 1987. The […]
Around 100 drug users per day are expected to use Ireland’s first heroin injection facility, which is situated in close proximity to a primary school, the High Court has heard. The facility, which is run by Merchants Quay Ireland (MQI), is based at the Riverbank Centre in Dublin city centre, and is reportedly just 150 […]
Paying taxes is a deeply unpleasant business. The Government, by force of law, comes and takes up to half your income, in order to give it to other people. Often times, that money is overtly, and flagrantly, wasted. Other times, it is given to people and organisations and causes which do not deserve it. Most […]
Senator Ronan Mullen has asserted that Ireland’s foreign policy has more to do with trade than morality or human rights, and has questioned Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney’s relationship with China and Iran. The senator made the remarks while speaking in the Seanad on Tuesday. “I raise today the strange attitudes of the Department of […]
Leo Varadkar said Fine Gael is the party to “unify our island”.
Mica Protest in Dublin and March to Dáil Éireann Photo credit: Gript
“Peaceful protest” in the offing.
The data is in, and it is overwhelmingly positive: NEWS — Our new analysis shows for the first time that two doses of the #COVID19 #vaccines are highly effective against hospitalisation from the #Delta (B.1.61.2) #variant. Read more: https://t.co/6z67CW85Zw pic.twitter.com/oyRFghHpXw — UK Health Security Agency (@UKHSA) June 14, 2021 Pfizer and Moderna – the MRNA […]
A map created by inviting home owners in Donegal to tag their houses has shown the shocking extent of homes affected by Mica. Highland Radio’s Greg Hughes said it was thought the map might only represent 10% of the houses crumbling with defective blocks. Ryan Stewart has created a map of homes in #Donegal affected my #mica. Home owners were […]