In what world do the paths of mysticism, anti-modernism, anti-Semitism, neo-nazism, alt-right counterculture, far-right syndicated news and high-tech meta-data collection collide? What could possibly connect these disparate, contradictory and, in most cases, …
In the management of a crisis, two things matter: people and systems. Almost everyone would agree that in Ireland the people part has been terrific. Ministers, civil servants and public health scientists are working day and night to save as many lives as poss…
Axa has become the first of the major motor insurers operating in the Republic to spell out its plans to offer a rebate to customers, putting aside about 33 for each motor policy. The Irish arm of the French insurer told The Irish Times it would set aside u…
A woman got a protection order against her adult grandson, and a man in his 80s got protection orders against his three adults sons during a busy session at the Dublin District Family Court on Monday, during which the Covid-19 lockdown was mentioned on a numb…
A sharp rise in the incidence of Covid-19 in counties near the Border is unlikely to be due to a spillover of infection from Northern Ireland, chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan has said. However, Northern Ireland public health doctor Dr Gabriel Scally on…
The focus on short-term cost reductions means the PSNI storing up problems for the future, the Northern Ireland Audit Office has warned in a new report. The office referred to how the PSNI has been operating on a significantly reduced budget in recent years.…
You would think, when it comes to choosing novels for adaptation to the big or small screen, the less perilous route for any director to take would be to select an obscure work that never came close to troubling a bestsellers list. Opting to adapt one as su…
Coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes have passed the 200-mark with the States chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan saying that there were now clusters in 211 nursing homes. This amounts to cases in almost 40 per cent of the countrys 540 nursing homes. Ad…
In her inaugural address as Irelands first female head of state, in December 1990, Mary Robinson declared that as a woman I want the women who have felt themselves outside history to be written back into history, in the words of Eavan Boland, finding a voice …
The United Nations will decide this week how to proceed with a key election for membership of the Security Council, as Ireland competes for a seat on the influential body. The UN vote had been scheduled to take place on June 17th, with Ireland competing with…
A final section of a new bridge in Genoa, built after a deadly 2018 motorway collapse, was to be slotted into place today, providing a much-needed symbol of renewal for coronavirus-hit Italy. Construction of the gleaming structure in northern Italy’s coastal…
With the doors closed on hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons across the country, the hair and beauty industry says it has not forgotten about its clients. HABIC, the newly formed Hair and Beauty Industry Confederation, has partnered with Age Action Irela…
Three-quarters of New Zealand’s economy has re-opened after a month-long lockdown, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern credited with eliminating domestic transmission of the coronavirus. Schools will reopen and gatherings of up to 10 people are allowed for e…
US President Donald Trump has held his first news briefing since he was ridiculed for suggesting disinfectant might be worth considering as a treatment for Covid-19. Speaking at the White House, he suggested he may seek damages from China over the coronaviru…
The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, and the Health Minister, Simon Harris, will update the Cabinet today on the Covid-19 crisis. Meanwhile, it’s likely that a joint letter from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on government formation will be presented to the Green Party l…
Lawyers for a former FBI agent convicted of murdering Irish man Jason Corbett in the United States will ask a judge to release him from prison over coronavirus concerns. Thomas Martens, 70, and his daughter Molly, were found guilty of the second-degree murde…
You would think, when it comes to choosing novels for adaptation to the big or small screen, the less perilous route for any director to take would be to select an obscure work that never came close to troubling a bestsellers list. Opting to adapt one as su…
Virgin Media has said it is working flat out to resolve problems with its broadband service that hit the network on Monday evening. The service is being cut out for short periods of time on an ongoing basis across the national network. The cause of the pr…
In her inaugural address as Irelands first female head of state, in December 1990, Mary Robinson declared that as a woman I want the women who have felt themselves outside history to be written back into history, in the words of Eavan Boland, finding a voice …
Gardaí investigating the death of two women in the midlands suspect they took a mixture of drugs, some of which was believed to have been purchased online. One woman (44) died at a hostel facility in Tullamore, Co Offaly on Sunday and three others took ill q…
Countries across Europe are tentatively easing coronavirus restrictions in a bid to try to allow as much normal life as possible while keeping the disease in check. Across the continent, governments are wrestling with how to restore everyday freedoms while p…
Coronavirus appears to linger in the air in crowded spaces or rooms that lack ventilation, researchers found in a study that buttresses the notion that Covid-19 can spread through tiny airborne particles known as aerosols. At two hospitals in Wuhan, China, r…
County Cavan has the highest incidence of Covid-19 in the Republic, and the number of cases in other Border counties is rising fast, a new report shows. Cavan overtook Dublin as the county with the highest incidence of the disease in recent days, the daily e…
The deaths of another 18 patients diagnosed with Covid-19 have been reported on Monday by the National Public Health Emergency Team. There have now been 1,102 Covid-19 related deaths in the Republic. NPHET also reported 386 new confirmed cases. The total nu…
After six weeks on lockdown with my son, who is seven and has severe autism, intellectual disability and ADHD, and is nonverbal, I am starting to feel quite desperate. Patrick is badly missing his routine. Normally he would get the bus to school at 9.15am, a…
Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at l…
Irish poet Eavan Boland has died at the age of 75. She died today at her home in Dublin following a stroke. Ms Boland had been working at Stanford University as a professor since 1996. More to follow.
Two people have died and two others are seriously ill in hospital after taking ill at a homeless hostel in the midlands in the last 24 hours. Gardaí in Tullamore say they are investigating the cause of the deaths and the possible role played by illegal drugs…
Eighteen more people who were diagnosed with Covid-19 have died in Ireland, the Department of Health has said. 17 of the 18 deaths reported today have been laboratory confirmed. It brings the total number of deaths linked to the virus to 1,102. There have a…
Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema, who was kidnapped by the IRA in Limerick almost 45 years ago, has died at the age of 99. Dr Herrema was kidnapped on 3 October 1975 as he was leaving his home to go to the Ferenka factory that he ran. It was the city’s big…