Vinu Devan 
An anti-covid vaccination activist Antonio Mureddu has been arrested by gardaí in Co Donegal. According to the reports, the arrest relates to an incident at Letterkenny University Hospital when a seriously ill Covid-19 patient was assisted in leaving the hospital on September 14, 2021. The man, 68-year-old Joe McCarron, died a couple of days later in the … Read more
The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has today opened the international protection strand of the regularisation scheme for long-term undocumented migrants. Applications for this separate international protection strand will be accepted from 10am today for six months until 7 August 2022, when the strand will close. The International Protection Office (IPO) of the department has … Read more
A one-off payment to tackle the cost-of-living crisis for low-income households is set to be agreed by a Cabinet subcommittee and rolled out within weeks. The committee will meet this week to tackle the impact of rising inflation, with a number of options on the table including a doubling of the €100 electricity credit for … Read more
The first wave of pandemic graduates left college with reduced employment chances and fewer opportunities to see the world, a survey by the Higher Education Authority has confirmed. The latest Graduate Outcome Survey gives a snapshot of the lives of college-leavers nine months after they departed third-level education, highlighting broad-ranging trends on earnings, employment, and … Read more
A man has died following a road traffic accident in West Cork this afternoon. The accident between a motorcycle and a car occurred in the village of Ballineen today, at around 1.45 pm. The driver of the motorcycle, a man aged in his 50s, was fatally injured during the collision. He was pronounced dead at … Read more
Russia has in place about 70% of the combat power it believes it would need for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is sending more battalion tactical groups to the border with its neighbor, two U.S. officials said on Saturday. In the last two weeks, the number of battalion tactical groups in the border region … Read more
A man in his 60s has died and another man has been injured following a two-van crash in Moyvalley, Co Kildare, in the early hours of this morning. The collision happened on the N4 shortly after 2 am. The man in his 60s, who was the driver of one of the vans, was pronounced dead … Read more
India’s legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away due to a multi-organ failure in Mumbai on Sunday morning. Mangeshkar, who was known as the ‘Queen of Melody’ and the ‘Nightingale of India’, breathed her last at 8:12 am in Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. She was tested positive for COVID-19 in early January. Dr. Pratit Samdani, who was … Read more
Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of two teenagers who are missing from the Julianstown area of Meath. Hannah O’Brien aged 14, and Martin Ward aged 15, have been missing from the Julianstown area since Wednesday. A Garda spokesperson said it is believed the two teenagers may be together. Martin is … Read more
Families with teens face travel chaos this summer as a booster programme for 12- to 15-year-olds has not yet been rolled out. This could mean teenagers in this age cohort may see their EU digital Covid certs expire before the summer season. People who received their second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and haven’t received … Read more
Two men were arrested by gardaí yesterday, after cocaine and tablets worth €220,000 were seized in North Dublin. a garda spokesperson said, “As part of ongoing investigations into the local sale and distribution of controlled drugs, Gardaí from Blanchardstown searched premises in the Mountview area of Dublin 15 shortly after 4 pm on Friday,”. The … Read more
A man, aged 20, was arrested at Dublin Airport on Friday evening after being detained in Romania on foot of a European arrest warrant in January. A garda statement said: “As part of an ongoing Garda Economic Crime Bureau investigation into a criminal organization, Gardai have arrested a male, aged in his 20s, at Dublin Airport … Read more
A man in his 20s has died and three others have been hospitalized after a collision on the N4 in Co Westmeath on Friday morning. The collision happened between a car and an SUV at around 9.20 am on the N4 at Ballinafid. A passenger in the car, a man aged in his 20s, was … Read more
The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 6,697 PCR-confirmed cases of COVID-19. In addition, on Thursday 3 February, 5,639 people registered a positive antigen test through the HSE portal. As of 8 am today, 597 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, of whom 66 are in ICU.
An Indian-origin student from Longford has today been announced as this year’s winner of the National Disability Authority’s Someone Like Me national art competition. Matthew Yacob, a sixth Class student at St Teresa’s National School, Killoe, impressed the judges with a hard-hitting message conveyed through a creative and colorful poster portraying a number of drawings of individuals with … Read more