Advert advocating lifting of restrictions ‘belittles’ impact of Covid-19, says HSE chief clinical adviserAdvert advocating herd immunity placed by tech millionaire drew ‘wrong conclusions’Thu Oct 15 2020 - 19:59
Cork, Letterkenny and Cavan hospitals exceed normal ICU capacity over Covid-19HSE chief Paul Reid says public, not health workers are first line of defence against virusThu Oct 15 2020 - 19:00
Cork, Letterkenny and Cavan hospitals exceed normal ICU capacity over Covid-19Coronavirus hospital admissions have increased by 62 per cent from last weekThu Oct 15 2020 - 16:51
‘The people we deal with are people who are living daily in fear,’ says arts organiserOireachtas committee hears cuts to the PUP makes it harder for artists to surviveWed Oct 14 2020 - 22:59
Level 3 restrictions see traffic fall by 17.5 per cent last week, gardaí sayOperation Fanacht sees private car volumes down to just 70 per cent of normalWed Oct 14 2020 - 19:37
Shot dead in Dublin 100 years ago: the man who started the War of IndependenceSean Treacy, one of the most-wanted men in Ireland, was shot on Talbot Street in DublinWed Oct 14 2020 - 18:08
Budget 2021: Musicians welcome €50m for live entertainment industryEleanor McEvoy says Government support is ‘unprecedented’ for musiciansTue Oct 13 2020 - 21:31
My budget: ‘Disappointed PUP wasn’t restored’Luke Murphy qualified last year with a diploma and was earning €1,000 a week before Covid-19 struckTue Oct 13 2020 - 17:26
Donegal couple frustrated at lack of support to meet cost of cocooningMy budget: Kevin Monaghan (74) says he and his wife ‘are to the pin of our collar’ with expensesTue Oct 13 2020 - 17:20
Irish musicians post video in call for help from Budget 2021Thousands on the ‘breadline’ with live music venues closed since MarchTue Oct 13 2020 - 08:13
Gardaí seize 70kg of cannabis worth €1.4 million in DublinHerbal cannabis found at business premises in Coolock in joint operation with RevenueMon Oct 12 2020 - 18:02
The God Squad author and ‘fearless campaigner’ Paddy Doyle dies at 69Disability activist wrote about cruelty and abuse he suffered in Waterford industrial schoolMon Oct 12 2020 - 09:17
Restrictions around the world: How countries are tackling the latest surgeMeasures vary from country to countryThu Oct 08 2020 - 20:40
Covid-19 checkpoints and traffic congestion were ‘sharp shock’ to motoristsPeople planning to avoid measures ‘will be left very disappointed’, say gardaíWed Oct 07 2020 - 13:31
Cycling is safer than many people believe it to be, says MinisterHildegarde Naughton says cycling is statistically safer than it was 20 years agoMon Oct 05 2020 - 15:58
Influential whiskey critic faces accusations of sexismJim Murray says book will evolve; says he aims to enlighten and entertain – not offendMon Oct 05 2020 - 11:14
Rain, flooding and wind warnings as Atlantic storm Alex arrivesStatus yellow warning: Threat of flooding in places as storm arrives on Sunday morningSun Oct 04 2020 - 13:59
Anti-mask campaigners hold sit-down protest on Grafton StreetGardaí investigate organisation of protests which may breach the Covid-19 regulationsSat Oct 03 2020 - 21:08
More than 1,000 Covid-19 clusters linked to private homes in SeptemberSeptember was second worst month for new cases but deaths remain far lower than AprilSat Oct 03 2020 - 19:49
Ten deaths and 613 new cases of coronavirus reported in the StateEight deaths occurred before September; total of 37,668 confirmed cases in RepublicSat Oct 03 2020 - 19:22
Covid-19: World in ‘for a hell of a ride’ in coming months, Dr Mike Ryan saysWHO official estimates that 750m people globally have likely had coronavirus to dateFri Oct 02 2020 - 16:58
Men should be taught to do ‘fair share of housework’ from early ageCharity says ‘gender justice’ won’t happen until males share domestic responsibilitiesFri Oct 02 2020 - 15:18
Focus on daily Covid-19 cases causing ‘fear, anxiety and despair’, says VaradkarIreland on course for record Covid-19 numbers, says TánaisteFri Oct 02 2020 - 09:24
Top Irish authors contribute to new book to help adult literacyPublication in plain English marks 40 years of the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)Fri Oct 02 2020 - 01:00
Coronavirus: stricter house visitor limits nationwide as 442 new cases confirmedNPHET says there should be maximum of six people from one household rather than threeThu Oct 01 2020 - 22:10
Small children should be restricted to one square of chocolate a weekNew guidelines for children (0-4) recommends ‘tiny’ amounts of treatsThu Oct 01 2020 - 19:24
Ireland’s travel green list reduces to four countriesState curently has one of the strictest travel regimes in EuropeMon Sept 28 2020 - 09:53
People who fail to self-isolate should be fined for their ‘selfish behaviour’, says GPDr Illona Duffy says she called a patient with positive result to find ‘they were not at home’Sat Sept 26 2020 - 10:41
No deadline set for restoration of Shelbourne Four statuesDublin City Council confirms ‘delicate’ conservation work needed before reinstallationThu Sept 24 2020 - 21:44
Shelbourne Hotel statues to be restored to their plinthsArt historian concludes that statues are not depictions of African slave womenThu Sept 24 2020 - 02:46
Dr Ronan Glynn: Struggling hospitality sector will not influence public health decisionsActing CMO criticises focus on ‘small but significant element of society that is not open’Wed Sept 23 2020 - 21:18
Health experts have insufficient information to establish where people get Covid-19, committee hears‘Zero Covid’ for Ireland is not feasible unless every other country does same, says Swedish expertWed Sept 23 2020 - 13:06
Let coronavirus spread through under-60 population, Dáil committee toldSwedish epidemiologist advises against pinning hopes on imminent advent of vaccineWed Sept 23 2020 - 11:53
Safer to meet ‘200 friends in a field’ than 20 indoors, says expert‘If you are going to do mad stuff do it outside’, says DCU professor Anthony StainesTue Sept 22 2020 - 00:34
Twitter continues to be ‘toxic’ for women, Amnesty International saysSocial media platform has implemented only one of 10 recommendationsTue Sept 22 2020 - 00:00
NI minister criticises Van Morrison over Covid-19 remarksRobin Swann tells Rolling Stone Morrison is encouraging ‘tin foil hat brigade’Mon Sept 21 2020 - 23:48
Gardaí investigate rave in Dublin flats attended by large crowdDublin southwest inner city has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 in the countryMon Sept 21 2020 - 13:21
President Higgins to address UN on its 75th anniversaryMichael D Higgins says Covid-19 pandemic has exposed global inequalitiesMon Sept 21 2020 - 01:00
Students often embarrassed to raise issue of sexual consent, study showsNew learning resource for third-level students launchedMon Sept 21 2020 - 00:01
Covid-19 cases among older people continue to rise sharplyInfections in over-65s have gone from zero to 163 a week since the beginning of JulySun Sept 20 2020 - 21:03
The Sack of Balbriggan: The burning of a town that shocked the world 100 years agoActions by Crown forces brought renewed focus on Ireland’s struggle for independenceSun Sept 20 2020 - 14:38
Civil War rape which led to pregnancy recalled in new TV documentaryDublin archbishop answered woman’s plea for money so her son could be adoptedSun Sept 20 2020 - 11:54
Bar workers dismayed by the decision to keep ‘wet pubs’ closed in DublinMany staff have been living on half their wages for the last six monthsSat Sept 19 2020 - 01:00
President Higgins says British must face up to their history of reprisalsPresident says sack of Balbriggan 100 years ago was rooted in ideas of superiorityFri Sept 18 2020 - 21:30
Pat Smullen was as a ‘fighter’ who always did his best, funeral service toldJockey, who died from cancer aged 43, laid to rest in his local cemetery in OffalyFri Sept 18 2020 - 19:18
Remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years on: the guitar god and the Irish connectionDave Tiger Taylor, whose band who toured with Hendrix, remembers his ‘magic’Fri Sept 18 2020 - 07:46
New exhibition focuses on Glendalough as a place of isolationNational Museum of Ireland features 24 objects associated with the world-famous siteWed Sept 16 2020 - 17:44
Doctor posts photo of bruised face from PPE in response to anti-mask campaignFormer Rose of Tralee Elysha Brennan says it is not a big ask for the public to wear masksWed Sept 16 2020 - 15:58
Dublin a ‘disease reservoir’ for Covid-19, NPHET warned GovernmentDr Ronan Glynn said cases in the capital could rise to 300 a day by month’s endWed Sept 16 2020 - 09:51
