Fáilte Ireland’s new €4million domestic marketing campaign has been unveiled today by the Minister for Tourism Catherine Martin TD. As the tourism sector prepares to reopen. Fáilte Ireland’s ‘Keep Discovering’ campaign aims to drive domestic holidays for the remainder of the year and help to reboot and rebuild Ireland’s tourism industry. The national advertising campaign … Read more
“Total deaths are at least two to three times higher than officially reported,” Samira Asma, the WHO assistant director-general in charge of data, told reporters. In 2020, the report found there had been at least three million excess deaths due directly or indirectly to Covid-19, while the official number of Covid deaths was 1.8 million … Read more
Ireland will adopt a COVID-19 certificate to help citizens travel more freely across the European Union “as early as possible” and not necessarily by late July as previously flagged, a senior minister said on Friday. Ireland has the strictest travel curbs in the 27-nation bloc, advising citizens against non-essential travel, imposing fines on people travelling … Read more
The Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan said the National Public Health Emergency Team is “genuinely concerned” about the number of cases of the variant of Covid-19 first identified in India that have been detected in Ireland. Speaking at the weekly Department of Health briefing, the Chair of NPHET’s Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group Professor Philip Nolan … Read more
Visitors to Ireland’s only Victorian Waterworks now have the comfort of booking in advance with Old Cork Waterworks Experience launching a new online booking platform. The introduction of dedicated time slots will offer certainty and reassurance to visitors and enhance the onsite experience. Staff are looking forward to welcoming back visitors to one of Cork’s … Read more
Ireland is the first, and only, country in the world to have a national day of free creativity for children and young people under 18. Cruinniú na nÓg is a flagship initiative of the Creative Ireland Programme’s Creative Youth Plan to enable the creative potential of children and young people. The inaugural Cruinniú na nÓg took place on 23rd June 2018 … Read more
Gardaí in Carbury and Portarlington are investigating two incidents that occurred on 18th May 2021 where a male called to two homes and attempted to steal money. In one of the incidents he was successful in convincing the injured party to part with a sum of cash by saying the money was counterfeit. Anyone with … Read more
The ceremony marking the Annual Garda Memorial Day, to remember deceased members of An Garda Síochána who lost their lives in the line of duty, will take place at Dubhlinn Gardens, Dublin Castle on Saturday, 22 May at noon. In light of COVID-19, a reduced ceremony will be held with only a small number of … Read more
Novel,”Lost Children Archive” which weaves together the stories of Mexican migrants with those of a US family on a road trip south, by Valeria Luiselli wins €100,000 Dublin literary award ,and is the largest prize for a single novel published in English. Lost Children Archive tells the story of a couple, both sound artists, who … Read more
The Minister for Justice, Heather Humphreys TD, and the Minister of State for Law Reform, Youth Justice and Immigration, James Browne TD, have today announced that two new categories have been added to the priority/emergency list of visas being processed at this time. Visa applications will now be accepted from people who are seeking to … Read more
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. today (Thursday, 20th May 2021) launched Ireland’s Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. This year Ireland is represented by Annex, a multi-disciplinary research and design collective, comprised of a core team of architects, artists, and urbanists who are presenting an exhibition entitled … Read more
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Simon Coveney, T.D., today announced €1.5 million in emergency support for people in the Gaza Strip in response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation. Minister Coveney said:“I am deeply concerned by the terrible humanitarian consequences of the ongoing violence in the occupied Palestinian territory. Two million people in Gaza, who … Read more
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett visited the DAFM Bee Health laboratory today at the Backweston Campus in Co Kildare as part of the celebrations of World Bee Day today 20 May 2021. The Department provides a bee health service, free of charge, facilitating the … Read more
Dublin City Council is pleased to announce that, following last weekend’s successful trial, outdoor dining will be facilitated on Merrion Row, initially for the summer, with a review to take place in the autumn to ascertain the long-term viability of continuing.Over the coming weeks the following changes will be made to the area as part … Read more
The Government has appointed Mr. John Hogan as Secretary General of the Department of Finance. Mr Hogan is currently the Assistant Secretary General with responsibility for Tax Policy Division in the Department of Finance. He was previously Assistant Secretary General with responsibility for Banking Policy in the Financial Services Division of the Department. Throughout his … Read more