[ad_1] Frontline Garda representatives are calling on the Garda Commissioner and the Minister for Justice to conduct a Brexit audit of all “air, sea and land” crossing points between Ireland and the UK. The review is intended to ensure that Garda members operating at entry and exit points between the UK and the EU have … Read more
[ad_1] STUDY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES among Leaving Certificate students has slowed over the past five years, and the percentage of sixth-year students studying at least one foreign language has dropped for both girls and boys. At the beginning of the 2019/2020 academic year, 67% of sixth-year boys and 84.6% of sixth-year girls were studying at … Read more
[ad_1] Europe launched a mass vaccination campaign on Sunday with retirees and doctors lining up to take the first vaccines to curb the Covid-19 pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives around the world. Thank God, “said Araceli Hidalgo, 96, when she became the first person in Spain to receive … Read more
[ad_1] The first batch of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Ireland and the initial vaccines are expected to be administered on Wednesday. The vaccines will not be administered until December 30, as the HSE said that training and education for vaccinators must end before inoculations begin. He said his “priority is the safe … Read more
[ad_1] Communications disruptions continue to plague much of Tennessee as US federal investigators searched the site for clues after a caravan exploded in Nashville on Christmas morning. Police emergency systems in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, as well as Nashville’s Covid-19 Community Hotline and a handful of hospital systems, remained out of service because an AT&T … Read more
[ad_1] US investigators have identified a person of interest in connection with the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas Day and are searching a home in the city’s suburbs, the FBI said. Officers raided a home in Antioch after receiving information relevant to the investigation, according to FBI Special Agent Jason Pack. Another law … Read more
[ad_1] It was during breakfast on the winter morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, “We have to fire the starting shot.” Sahin “had concluded from a post describing coronavirus cases in Wuhan … that there was a high probability that a pandemic was imminent,” Tureci said. The decision … Read more
[ad_1] The incipient dividing line between Britain and the EU that would eventually lead to Brexit was evident 30 years ago during private meetings between Taoiseach Charles Haughey and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. During the course of the meetings, Thatcher criticized the European Commission as an undemocratic “politburo”, disparaged the European Parliament as “not … Read more
[ad_1] Hungary and Slovakia were ahead of their fellow European Union countries when they began vaccinating their people against the coronavirus on Saturday. The countries’ move comes a day before deployments in several other countries, including France, Germany and Spain, as the pandemic spreads across the continent. Mass vaccination across the European Union would be … Read more
[ad_1] The launch of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 in Europe is underway following approval Monday by the European Medicines Agency. Spain received its first doses of the vaccine, a day before the country begins its immunization campaign. A refrigerated truck arrived at Pfizer’s warehouse in Guadalajara, central Spain, with the shipment, three days after it left the … Read more