Arthritis can have a significant impact on people’s mental health and wellbeing, in addition to physical symptoms such as joint damage and pain, according to Arthritis Ireland. The national patient organisation is highlighting the effect the disease has on mental health during National Arthritis Week, which starts tomorrow, 12 April). Covid-19 has exacerbated the situation, […]
Hospital Consultants have warned that non-Covid waiting lists have skyrocketed, with a 100% increase in inpatient waiting lists in some hospitals. They also cautioned that the waiting list may be an “underestimation of the true unmet demand for treatment as they do not yet include all those who have had their care disrupted or have […]
Independent Wexford TD Verona Murphy has hit out at regulators over new “Stalinist” rural planning rules that she says will force rural people into “urbanised ghettos”, claiming that a “Dublin-centric government” does not understand rural issues. “For a long time now there’s been a lot of disquiet in relation to planning regulation and particularly in […]
Kerry hotel gets €140,000 rates bill – despite being forced to close for Covid lockdown. The manager of a well-known hotel in Killarney has revealed he was charged almost €140,000 in rates despite the ongoing lockdown. Tom Randles, the manager of Randles Hotel, tweeted a photo of the bill for €139, 376.75 he had been […]
Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín has called the inability of TDs to question NPHET a threat to the democratic oversight within the country. The Aontú leader said that TDs were unable to ask questions despite “the decisions on practical every aspect of the life of the country being made by NPHET.” “Today Ireland’s workplaces have […]
“One case occurred in a clinical trial and three cases occurred during the vaccine rollout in the USA. One of them was fatal.”
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has voted 16 to 1 to uphold a decision in the Czech Republic which banned unvaccinated children from attending school. The court on Thursday found that this decision was legally valid, as its goal was “protective” for other students, as opposed to a “punitive” measure against the unvaccinated. […]
When it comes to explaining, for an Irish audience, the nature of the Popular Mobilization Forces, as Iraq’s Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary force call themselves, it’s quite hard to know where to begin. The first thing to say, probably, is that as an Iranian-backed, explicitly Shiite organisation, you have to be a Shia Muslim to […]
Joe Biden wants a global minimum corporate tax, as you may have heard. Here’s the summary from the Financial Times: The Biden administration is calling for the world’s biggest multinational companies to pay levies to national governments based on their sales in each country, as part of an ambitious proposal for a global minimum tax. […]
One of Europe’s most well-known charities, Oxfam, has been hit by scandal again after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against staff working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The allegations come just two years after Britain’s Charity Commission found in 2019 that Oxfam had not fully disclosed allegations that staff working in Haiti after […]
The first Irish case of a rare blood clot arising after vaccination with the AstraZeneca jab is being investigated by the Irish regulator. State watchdog, the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA), said it had received “a case of interest associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which describes CVST, an unusual clot in the brain.” The 40-year-old […]
The Irish government has stated that they may be re-opening non-essential retail shops and services, including hairdressers in mid-May – but only for fully vaccinated people. The so-called “vaccine bonus” will be extended to those who have received the jab, and will extend to many areas of life as the government say they will slightly […]