Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, has welcomed the launch of a booklet on the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 to be delivered to every household in Ireland. It will also be sent to other residential settings across the country, while thousands of copies will be distributed to people living … Read more
A road traffic collision in County Limerick has resulted in the deaths of a man and a woman. The occupants of the car, both in their 30s, were pronounced dead at the scene. At 9.25 p.m. on Sunday, the N21 at Ballycarrane, Patrickswell, saw a deadly collision between a van and a car. A man … Read more
Siemens Digital Industries Software is expanding its Shannon operations with the creation of a €7m software research and development group. The new division will concentrate on high-performance computing (HPC) for semiconductor design in the cloud. Over the following three years, Shannon is anticipated to add more than 25 R&D positions. Operating in Ireland since 1925, … Read more
A teenager has died after the car he was driving collided with a roadside tree on the outskirts of Listowel in Co Kerry. Around 2.40 pm on Sunday, a single-vehicle collision occurred in the Listowel neighbourhood of Ballinruddery. According to Garda, a car hit a tree by the road. The 19-year-old male driver of the … Read more
Compared to June 2021, wholesale electricity costs have increased by 91.3 percent, according to data from the June 2022 wholesale pricing index. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) reports that costs have increased for a wide range of products made in Ireland. Wholesale electricity costs increased by 26.9% in June compared to May 2022. Wholesale electricity … Read more
Online commenters have praised and mocked an Indian woman who wears a moustache. The attention surrounding her facial hair, she claims, has not bothered her, BBC reports. “I love my moustache,” Shyja from Kerala declares in her WhatsApp status, right below her photo. The 35-year-old, who has never been shy about showing off her moustache, … Read more
The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has accepted new recommendations in relation to Ireland’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The recommendations were made by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) to the Interim Chief Medical Officer (CMO), who has endorsed these recommendations. NIAC has recommended: a first mRNA booster vaccine for those aged 5-11 years who are … Read more
Monkeypox has been declared as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization, the highest alert it can issue. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the monkeypox outbreak has “rapidly” spread around the world. “For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of … Read more
The first-ever 251 Vediya Gayatri Deep Pooja will be performed on July 30 from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the VHCCI Temple in Ballymount, Dublin, in the divine presence of revered Dr. Chinmay Ji Pandya (MBBS, MRCPsych), Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya University (DSVV), and other holy saints from Shanti Kunj, Indian Ambassador Akhilesh … Read more
The “Inner Journey” Vedic presentation by Dr. Chinmay Ji Pandya (MBBS, MRCPsych) seeks to explore and unleash the true nature potentials of human life. The event is being organised by Gayatri Pariwar Ireland and will take place on Saturday, July 30 from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. at the Baldoyle Community Hall on Main Street … Read more
Ratha Yatra in Dublin, the festival of the chariots, brings devotional Indian culture to Ireland with a Krishna Conscious parade festival, singing, dancing, and a vegetarian feast. Ratha Yatra is the popular international annual parade festival of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. It features a wooden chariot pulled by hand accompanied by singing, dancing, … Read more
A three-year-old boy died following a tragic incident in Limerick on Friday. At before 10.30 am, a vehicle struck the kid, who was identified locally as Padraig Cunningham, in Ballyduhig, west Limerick, leaving him critically injured. The kid was treated by emergency personnel who arrived on the site, however, he was later declared dead at … Read more
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, has announced a funding allocation of €122,045 to support Small Scale Local Festivals and Summer Schools. The funding allocation will support 34 events taking place across the country in 2022. The scheme was created to help small-scale local cultural events that might not … Read more
Lisa Smith, a former Irish soldier, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after being found guilty of being a member of the Islamic State (IS) terror organization from Syria. Lisa Smith,40, an ex-member of the Defense Forces, was found guilty in May of belonging to the IS terror group but was cleared of a … Read more
A young man aged in his 20s has been killed in a two-vehicle road traffic collision in Co Louth which has also left a young woman in critical condition. On Friday at around 5 a.m., Garda arrived at the site of the collision on the N33 near Richardstown, Dunleer. One of the vehicle’s front-seat occupants, … Read more