A new survey of the childcare industry has found that 41% of early years professionals are actively seeking a job in another sector. The Early Years Professionals survey report was conducted by social scientist Dr. Amy Greer Murphy. Murphy said that today professionals are still struggling with low pay and insecure working conditions, feel undervalued … Read more
Rents nationally increased by 10.3pc in the last three months of 2021 when compared with the previous year, according to listed rent prices compiled by the property website Daft.ie. An acute shortage of homes has pushed the rate that rents are rising to a four-year high. On a quarterly basis, rents increased in the Dublin … Read more
Government ministers will travel across the globe to represent and promote Ireland on St Patrick’s Day. The government said this year’s St. Patrick’s Day program will see a promotional program of 33 high-level visits abroad which will take place in line with local Covid-19 public health guidelines. Due to Covid-19, in-person ministerial-level visits were possible … Read more
The second Public Consultation Period for the Ballinasloe Flood Relief Scheme will commence on Wednesday, 9 February, and run until Wednesday, 23 February 2022. Information on the project will be available for members of the public to view at the civic offices and the public library in Ballinasloe between February 9 and February 23. This … Read more
Seven young children were mistakenly given adult doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the health products regulator. According to the report, the errors came to light when the children came to mass vaccination centers for their second dose of the vaccine, and vaccinators spotted incorrect information on their cards. A child’s dose of Pfizer/BioNTech … Read more
Gardaí are investigating an alleged assault on a teenage girl that happened yesterday in Fermoy. The victim, 16, is believed to have been out walking in the Chapel Sq area of the town at around 1.20 pm when she was allegedly attacked. The girl did not suffer any serious injuries during the incident but is … Read more
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