To be fair, my headline is technically inaccurate, but it’s true for all intents and purposes. Israel’s newly re-elected Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, announced yesterday that henceforth, all visitors to Israel would have to go into quarantine for fourteen days. Going into quarantine for two weeks makes most business or leisure travel impracticable, of course. […]
New results from a major international survey show that a big majority of women aged 18-50 with children under 18 years of age would prefer to work part-time if given the chance. The Iona Institute says the findings show that government policy must be fair to the child-care choices of all parents. The survey finds […]
An interesting report this morning from TheJournal.ie: THE NUMBER OF people deported from Ireland last year who were here illegally or who had failed in their asylum application rose significantly to 293. That was almost as many deportations as had taken place in the previous two years, when 140 (2017) and 163 (2018) people were […]
One of Fianna Fáil’s most senior politicians has called for all major parades for the St Patrick’s Day Festival to be cancelled given the current COVID-19 crisis. Éamon Ó Cuiv tweeted that “It seems strange that the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin, and other major parades elsewhere in Ireland, would go ahead given the current […]
It’s very easy to write about how the Irish Government is bungling the Coronavirus crisis (for it is, now, a crisis) by not moving quickly enough to restrict public gatherings and enforce strict containment measures, and to list the many ways in which it is failing to do so. Primarily, it’s easy to write because […]
The Department of Health, and Minister Simon Harris, have so far failed to respond to questions put to them asking if they had put in place measures, recommended by the World Health Organisation [WHO], to minimise the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at an international event the Department is co-hosting next week. They have also […]
A professor of immunology has called on the authorities to cancel the St Patrick’s Day festival, as cases of the coronavirus begin to climb in Ireland.
Cork University Hospital is effectively on lock down this evening, with notices outside the hospital saying an “infection outbreak” means strict visitor restrictions are in place.
A man who has now tested positive for the coronavirus worked a shift in a hospital emergency department in the west of Ireland after returning from northern Italy, it has been revealed. The man, a healthcare professional, is one of a family of four in Clare who have been confirmed to have the virus and […]
A national school in Co Clare has been closed for two weeks as 4 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in the country last night. The Clare Echo has reported that all four cases are a family in North-West Clare who had travelled to Northern Italy before returning home. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony […]
Poor Pope Francis has had something of a torrid week of it. It began with the announcement that the Pontiff has been struck down by a mystery illness and was confined to bed. It approaches its end with an unwelcome letter in the post from Ireland’s most high profile Catholic. Of course, it seems fairly […]
It’s perfectly understandable if you missed it, because, let’s face it, the news is Coronavirus 24/7 these days, but on Monday the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) released data on new car sales for the first two months of 2020. The figures were, well, not good: New car registrations for February were down […]