Great news for anti-social people-haters like me who like to find any excuse to avoid human company. But the rest of you must be wondering what on earth he’s thinking: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has warned the State is at a “tipping point”, and that the coronavirus pandemic is “close to having us lock […]
The fifteen year old who was gang-raped by a bunch of older men in a Dublin hotel is, the Irish Times and Irish Independent told us yesterday, “troubled”: A 15-YEAR-OLD girl deemed at high risk of sexual exploitation was reported to have been “coked out of it” while spending the night at a Dublin city […]
No more Heidi or cuckoo clocks? As headlines go ‘There should be integration courses for the Swiss’ was one surely written to catch attention, but sociologist Ganga Jey Aratnam argues that this will become the reality as Swiss people are set to become a minority in their own country. In an interview with Tages-Anzeiger, Aratnam said that Swiss […]
Tech giant Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106 million taxes to settle a dispute over taxes raised on revenues earned in the country. The charge would cover the period of Facebook’s operations in France from 2009 to 2019. The social network trailblazers also agreed to pay €8.46m in taxes on revenues earned […]
“So will they be sent home if they refuse to wear the mask?”, asked Richard Downes on Prime Time last night. “Yes absolutely, everybody is expected to wear the mask” replied the Minister for Education, Norma Foley. Good news, if, like me, you are the husband of a teacher, or indeed if you are a […]
Ireland has failed to apply for the EU’s €100 billion SURE scheme due to the long delays in forming a government after the general election, the Irish Times has reported. The EU Commission’s SURE scheme was proposed in April, and would offer up to €100 billion in affordable loans to EU countries so that they […]
Controversial WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gheybresus, has said that any recovery process to deal with the fallout from covid-19 must include measures for dealing with climate change. During a press conference last week, Gheybresus told reporters that though countries were recovering from the impact of coronavirus, life would never be returning to pre-pandemic conditions. “The […]
A pub near to the Champs-Elysees was reportedly raided by Paris riot police over coronavirus concerns. Football fans at a bar in Paris were met with riot shields and batons after failing to social distance while watching the Champions League final. Watch more videos from Sky News here: https://t.co/mQhSgQx3wz pic.twitter.com/DwfBh6QCGi — Sky News (@SkyNews) August […]
To lose one agriculture minister might be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two, the IFA might have said to the Taoiseach last night, is just rank carelessness: Cullinan said: “We are very concerned about the disruption caused by the loss of two Ministers for Agriculture since the new government was formed, and reports that […]
On Saturday Gardai seized 32 dogs that are believed to have been stolen from their owners. The seizures came after searches at Stockhole, Cloghran, and Swords. The 32 dogs, consisting of 3 Chihuahuas, 4 Pugs, 1 Jack Russell and 24 Dachshunds, were then delivered by dog wardens to Ashton Dog Pound in Castleknock. An investigation […]
At a press conference on Sunday evening President Donald Trump announced that the Food and Drink Administration (FDA) has given its approval for the use of high antibody plasma from recovered Covid19 patients to treat those currently diagnosed. That followed a Presidential tweet on Saturday in which Trump accused the “deep state or whoever at […]
Thousands of people from across the country have attended a rally in Dublin city centre where speakers called for an end to the lockdown and said that citizens should have freedom of choice in relation to the covid-19 restrictions. They also said that the government needed to provide transparency in relation to evidence-based decision making. […]