A courier with an expired Pakistani passport has been charged with allegedly claiming €6,650 euro in fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment payments following a Garda probe. Khurram Cheema, 39, who resides in County Cork, appeared before the Bandon District Court on a number of PUP-related charges. Judge Colm Roberts heard that the charges relate to PUP that […]
Unemployment isn’t expected to return to pre-Covid “normal” levels until at least 2025, meaning income supports similar to the PUP will very likely be with us for years, according to new official forecasts from the Department of Finance. The projections, which have been prepared by the Department for the European Commission, indicate that even with […]
A group of six independent Senators has said that the 2022 Winter Olympics should not take place in Beijing and that, if the International Olympic Committee doesn’t change the venue, the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) should boycott the event. Led by Independent NUI Senator Rónán Mullen, the Oireachtas group criticized the “deteriorating human rights […]
Taoiseach Michéal Martin has said that he “can’t be definitive” that the country won’t experience a fourth wave of covid-19 this winter and go into lockdown again as a result. Speaking on The Tonight Show on Virgin Media, the Taoiseach was asked: “Are you suggesting that you would be confident that, once the vaccination programme […]
There is, as Irish Catholic Editor Michael Kelly noted last night, a “glorious irony” to this: There is a glorious irony in the fact that the Irish Republic has now gone so rogue that Poland and Hungary are rightly raising concerns about the rule of law here. https://t.co/f6WlZnEiAV — Michael Kelly ن (@MichaelPTKelly) April 15, […]
One of these days, my friends, Ireland will find itself facing a problem to which Paul Murphy’s answer will not be “seize all private property”. But it is not this day. Here he is, popping up on RTE’s Drive Time radio programme to advocate….. seizing hotels and turning them into Government prison camps quarantine facilities […]
Residential property prices have risen 3% across the Republic of Ireland in the year leading up to February, with homes outside of Dublin rising by almost 5%. According to the latest CSO figures, house prices in Dublin rose by 1.2%, while Dublin apartments rose by just under 1%. In south Dublin, costs increased by as […]
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]
The NCADF say people arriving from countries on the green list of the EU Traffic System should not have to be tested or be quarantined.
“For the record, our client would again categorically and emphatically deny that she has had an affair with her driver and that her marriage is a sham.”
“The best option is the vaccine that’s offered to you, and all the vaccines are effective and they’re safe for the age groups they’re indicated for.”
Look, this has gone too far. In my case, taking a vaccine won’t be a problem. But trying to get me to carry something called a “digital green certificate”? You’d be mortified with the fear that people might confuse you with a supporter of Eamon Ryan and try to engage you in conversations about how […]