The test proving the traveller does not have Covid-19 must be taken within 72 hours prior to arriving in Ireland.
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has said that survivors of Mother and Baby Homes have not had all their questions answered today, while lambasting the “insensitive” approach the government has taken. Deputy Tóibín said: “The report on Mother and Baby Homes has been published today, and it does make for distressing reading. Survivors have been […]
Not especially newsworthy in and of itself, but certainly newsworthy in terms of what it might mean for Ireland: Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of April, top-selling Bild daily cited participants […]
Three Waterford men standing outside the doors of the city’s Most Holy Trinity cathedral were arrested on Sunday.
A spokesman for German leader Angela Merkel said the Chancellor found it “problematic” that Twitter had permanently suspended US president Donald Trump.
Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, has reported that tensions are growing within the EU over the EU vaccine programme over the percentage of vaccines that are set to be given to Germany. The programme saw the European Commission source vaccines for all member states, and these vaccines are meant to be distributed to each EU […]
Big Tech – the handful of powerful companies who have a near-monopoly on social media and many avenues of public speech – moved in concert last week to ban or severely restrict Donald Trump from communicating with his followers. Mr Trump received 74 million votes in the US Presidential election in November, with some 47% of voters […]
Paul Murphy TD has been remarkably consistent in demanding more and more Covid restrictions. So much so, in fact, that on Saturday, he approvingly retweeted an Irish Times article which described him as “the Dáil’s most consistent advocate of a zero covid strategy”. Here he is, basking in the acclaim, and criticising the Government for […]
Up to 200 people have attended a protest and prayer vigil at RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, in what they describe as “an act of public reparation” for the New Years’ Eve sketch which accused God of rape. Participants prayed and held banners displaying the Holy Face of Jesus and signs which accused RTE of failing to […]
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
A demonstration was held on Thursday night in remembrance of deceased schoolboy Noah Donohoe. Blue ribbons were fixed to the gates of Stormont as mourners gathered to remember the 14-year-old boy as a cavalcade of cars in his honour took off across Belfast city with horns beeping to allow for social distancing. https://twitter.com/MyNoah8/status/1347537900347469825 https://twitter.com/MyNoah8/status/1346822376625987584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346822376625987584%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbelfastmedia.com%2Fcar-convoy-to-support-the-family-of-noah-donohoe-tonight Before […]
The concerning thing here is not the number of people in hospital, actually. 1,100 patients is a lot, but a modern first world health service should be able to cope with that. No, the concerning thing is this graph: 151 admissions in the past 24 hours, and the rate increasing at more than 100 a […]