[ad_1] Nearly half of all Covid-19 cases reported by the Health Department have been reported in the past two weeks, as heard in a report tonight. Professor Philip Nolan, Chairman of the Epidemiological Modeling Advisory Group of Ireland, said that 44% of all cases were reported in the last fortnight, and that one in 67 … Read more
[ad_1] Primark owner Associated British Foods has warned of an impact from lost retail sales of more than £ 1bn (€ 1.2bn) if coronavirus closures force its stores to remain closed until the end of February. . The budget fashion chain, which markets itself as Penneys in Ireland, said 305 of its 389 stores around … Read more
[ad_1] The newer and more infectious strain of Covid-19 in the UK is better at finding victims, generating much of the disease and misery that has gripped the country. Although the blockade has closed so many avenues for people to come together and transmit it to each other, the new form of virus has created … Read more
[ad_1] TEACHING Unions have come under fire at a private Fianna Fáil meeting amid the debacle over the abandoned plan to reopen schools for Leaving Cert students and children with special needs this week. The Fianna Fáil parliamentary party meeting also heard calls for predictive grades to be an option for this year’s Leaving Cert … Read more
[ad_1] The publicity surrounding Hollywood actress Jane Russell and her adoption of an Irish baby enraged the government at the time because it portrayed Ireland as ‘exporter babies’ for the benefit of wealthy Americans who wanted children. Russell was one of the most famous artists in the world when in November 1951 he adopted Thomas … Read more
[ad_1] Taoiseach Micheál Martin has asked religious orders associated with maternity and children’s homes to make a “financial contribution” to a reparation plan for survivors. It occurs when it emerged that the report of the Investigation Commission of Homes of Mothers and Babies was sent to the Director of the Public Ministry for review. Speaking … Read more
[ad_1] A 39-year-old man who discovered the dismembered remains of a teenager in a gym bag in Darndale almost exactly a year ago has been the victim of a savage knife attack. he father of two was stabbed multiple times in the shocking incident that unfolded at Moatview Gardens in Priorswood on the north side … Read more
[ad_1] Spain aims for all residents of its nursing homes to have received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the week, Health Minister Salvador Illa said today after a cabinet meeting. Since starting its vaccination campaign at the end of December and with the increase in new infections, Spain has … Read more
[ad_1] Single mothers in Ireland faced a “brutally misogynistic culture” for decades, a minister said after the publication of a report on the deaths of 9,000 children and babies. A five-year investigation by a judicial commission of inquiry details how children died in 18 institutions for single mothers and their babies between 1922 and 1998. … Read more
[ad_1] The Commission of Inquiry has said it found a “shocking level of infant mortality” in the homes of mothers and babies. In her long-awaited report, she said that the proportion of women admitted to such homes in Ireland was probably the highest in the world in the 20th century. The commission’s final report on … Read more