The Minister for Health will first monitor the effectiveness of vaccines on the transmissibility of Covid-19.
A major pornographic website which allegedly hosted videos of human trafficking victims and children being sexual abused has funnelled almost €1.5 billion in revenue through their Irish subsidiaries.
An Garda Síochána have said a new social media challenge poses a significant risk to life.
Extraordinary. Usually, in Ireland, if you say that one way to reduce the demand for housing is to lower immigration, you’ll be dismissed as a rabid racist who’s peddling fake news. But in the Irish Independent this morning, no less an authority than the ESRI is out warning that a reduction in immigration, due to […]
A company which sold the Irish Government €14million’s worth of Chinese ventilators, which later turned out not to work, is behind a plan to implement a new vaccine passport, Gript can reveal. ROQU, which was only founded in 2017, and had no Irish trading history before being awarded a €14m contract to supply ventilators from […]
A Mayo pub owner was arrested hours after opening his “wet” pub to customers who were given rapid-tests to ensure the premises was Covid-free.
Spare a moment, in this festive season, to mourn an old friend that’s missing in action. At this time of year, we’re usually joined by one of our old friends, the Orthomyxoviridae – better known as the viruses that cause Winter Flu. But this year? No sign of them. LATEST FIGURES SHOW that no cases […]
Calling yesterday’s first vaccinations in Northern Ireland “a day of hope”, Varadkar nonetheless warned that socialising over Christmas will “likely” cause an increase in cases soon after.
The Iona Institute has hit out at what appears to be a Twitter ban on any advertising from the organisation, after it sought to book an advert on the platform for a video featuring the charitable work of the Catholic Church. Director David Quinn said “Twitter has banned Iona Institute from advertising this extremely inoffensive video. They […]
A campaign seeking to lift what they say are “callous” restrictions on nursing home visits say that older people are “dying with broken hearts” because of the isolation and loneliness brought about by the Covid lockdown. The campaign group, Care Champions say that they have launched the ‘2*2*2 initiative’ seeking a change to regulations so […]
It’s not hard to guess where the blame will fall for yesterday’s figures showing that, overwhelmingly, the wealthiest young people still dominate the most elite college places. As I remarked to Niamh when we were doling out the stories for today, “wealth finds a way”: Students from the wealthiest families continue to retain a firm […]
Next time you find yourself in front of a judge, for speeding, or whatever, make sure to tell his or her honour that you are deeply sorry and that lessons have been learned. Maybe, to emphasise the point, you could pledge to go on a course that teaches you about the speed limit: A HEALTH […]