Hairdressers will be closed until May, the Taoiseach said yesterday, meaning that those of us who survive lockdown will emerge, eventually, into the sunshine, with hair and beards flowing like the cavemen of yore. But that’s only if we survive what NPHET says is the latest “dangerous moment” of the never-ending pandemic: Ireland could be […]
The professor claims hunger and food insecurity has risen to a level not seen for decades, along with a rise in child poverty to 140 million people.
Professor Oran Doyle of TCD has said that the list of prohibited “relevant events” does not include events “held for religious reasons”.
Social Democrat election candidate, progressive activist, and podcaster Linda Hayden has issued an apology following the discovery of divisive tweets she had sent. Speaking of the tweets Hayden said that “I wasn’t always a good person…I was an asshole who had no exposure to people of colour or the Travelling community”, but added she was […]
Significant covid-19 restrictions are set to remain in place for at least two months, as both Micheal Martin and Leo Varadkar have stated that the state’s hands are tied by a shortage of vaccines. The news comes as the government has missed its vaccine targets three weeks in a row, consistently missing its own deadlines […]
There’s been a lot of attention given, in the lockdown-sceptical parts of the Irish internet, in recent days, to the results of a freedom of information request made by a website called freepress.ie. Here’s what they say: Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official […]
The preliminary agenda for the annual conference of the Teachers Union of Ireland has been released, and with it, a list of motions that the Union is set to debate when it gathers for that conference later this spring. Top of the agenda is motion 177, introduced by the Dublin branch of the TUI, which […]
Reid began his post in May 2019 on a salary of €229,194 per annum and is now in the second year of a five year contract.
The idea will be considered by NPHET.
“I can’t stand and watch without doing anything.”
“All the modelling suggests at some point we will get a surge in the virus.”
Quietly, this is one of the most significant stories in global politics today, but (probably understandably) it’s not going to make headlines in most Irish media outlets: China’s military executed a coordinated test launch of its top anti-ship ballistic missile into the South China Sea last August to send an “unmistakable message,” the head of […]