A few short days ago, the nation’s gallant Minister for Health strode purposely out of a meeting with his officials, sleeves rolled up, frown artfully affixed to his forehead, and announced to the waiting public that he had a plan to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus: He was going to cancel a rugby match. […]
The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland has confirmed that a citizen returning from northern Italy via Dublin Airport has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The patient took steps to self-isolate after contacting their GP, with the diagnosis then being confirmed in an English laboratory. Chief medical officer Dr. Michael McBride said the health service would […]
It is expected that Bank of Ireland will not pay corporation tax for at least another ten years, whilst AIB and Permanent TSB will not pay any until almost 2040.
The play’s author and director, LGBT activist Falk Richter, had manipulated the quote from a speech Kuby delivered in 2014, making it appear that she supported a totalitarian state.
Before you get all outraged about the new report from the Central Statistics Office declaring Ireland the second most expensive country in Europe, take a minute and reflect that it’s probably not that surprising: Irish consumers pay the second highest prices in Europe, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office. The country also […]
Aquila Bioscience at NUIG has developed a technology, called Abwipe, which they say could prove a useful countermeasure to the Wuhan coronavirus, COVID-19. The technology was originally designed in consultation with the European Defence Agency to protect military and emergency personnel from biological agents such as anthrax. Professor Lokesh Joshi, vice-president of research at NUIG […]
The number of abortions performed in England and Wales because an unborn baby has a cleft lip and palate has increased 150% sine 2011, new figures show. Information released to MP Fiona Bruce who asked a parliamentary question on the issue showed that abortions for babies diagnosed with the condition had rocketed from 10 in 2011 […]
As several more European countries, as well as the populous Brazil, confirm their first cases of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization has said that the majority of new cases being reported are now outside China.
Joe Loughnane, a People Before Profit election candidate in Galway and the founder of the Galway Anti-Racism Network [GARN], has been expelled from People Before Profit following a meeting of their Steering Committee. The Steering Committee said that there was no place in PBP for Joe following ‘his violent attack on a former partner’. Mr […]
Ireland’s Six Nations tie against Italy in Dublin has been called off by the IRFU after the National Public Health Emergency team determined that it should not proceed on March 7th.
Bailey Nielsen (11), who remained silent throughout, attended the hearing with her grandfather Charles Nielsen to support legislation that would allow visitors to Idaho state to carry concealed handguns with the state’s city limits.
A German man is being investigated on suspicion of attempted murder after he drove his car into a crowd at high speed, injuring 61 people, including 20 children, on Monday.