In February, 12 large Canadian companies joined forces to trial mass rapid testing in their workplaces as a potential route to the reopening of their business. In March, 5,000 people attended an indoor concert in Barcelona with the help of rapid antigen tests and only two infections were traced to the event. Universities in the […]
Proposed housing debt would represent 1.5% of GDP.
The enormous cumulative drop in the Irish birth rate was revealed in figures from the Central Statistics Office today, which will add to concerns about a shrinking and ageing population leading to a fall off in economic growth and an inability to meet future pension and healthcare needs. The number of babies born in Ireland fell […]
A Marist priest and Irish historian, he is known for his writings and his rejection of revisionist Irish history and historians. He relayed in an interview with History Ireland that he felt stifled in UCD and ironically, it was in Cambridge, which was originally the origin of revisionism, that he found the data and evidence […]
“AN END TO THE BEEF BARONS”: Rural independents call for new beef regulator to save family farms. #gript
No deaths due to Covid-19 reported yesterday.
949 councillors are set for a pay hike in July.
There is however significantly more support for the medical use of cannabis, with 54% of respondents in favour.
A US based firm is collecting nearly $1,000 more in average rent in Ireland than in the United States, the Sunday Business Post has reported. SBP’s Killian Woods says “New filings published by the US real estate firm, which has 2,067 rental units in Ireland, show the average monthly rent in its Irish residential portfolio […]
The IMF said raising taxes would be necessary to fund investments in human and physical capital.
Paul Murphy TD warned however that the anti-water charge movement would reassert itself if the government pushed ahead with the OECD’s recommendation in that regard.
The group estimates that 100 million cancer screenings were not performed during the outbreak and will lead to decreased survival rates for those whose cancer is found at a later stage than normal.