[ad_1] Households face increases in their energy bills from today as the hike in the carbon tax kicks in. The tax was raised by € 6 to € 26 per tonne of carbon dioxide in last year’s budget. However, the increase was postponed until today on home heating fuels such as coal, peat, natural gas … Read more
[ad_1] The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet this morning to review the latest situation with Covid-19. New figures show that the number of people admitted to hospital with confirmed, or suspected Covid-19, has increased slightly to 927. The hospitals with the largest number of cases are in Dublin, at the Mater with 106 … Read more
[ad_1] Twenty-eight more people have died from the coronavirus, as the number of confirmed cases in the state increased by 500, the largest single-day increase to date. Fifteen of the patients who died were women and 13 men, with an average age of 84 years, according to the National Public Health Emergency Team. Nineteen of … Read more