Margaret Buttimer, of The Cottage, St Fintan’s Road, Bandon appeared before Clonakilty District Court earlier this week for refusing to wear a mask at Dunnes Stores in the town on 12 February.Judge Colm Roberts was told that Ms Buttimer abused the store manager when he asked her if there was a medical reason why she … Read more
The national SuperValu TidyTowns competition is an annual contest organised by the Department of Rural and Community Development. The competition is supported by the title sponsor SuperValu and many other agencies.The competition involves participating areas being rated on all aspects of their local environment and prizes awarded to the best under many different categories. The overall winner is “Ireland’s Tidiest Town”. which is … Read more
A new version of the decryption tool was developed yesterday and has been tested. A structured and controlled deployment has now begun across the core network and its end point devices.Progress has been made in some hospitals on restoring IT systems, but this is uneven and levels of disruption next week are expected to be … Read more
The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, has today removed six States from the list of designated States for mandatory hotel quarantine. The States are: Andorra Georgia Kuwait Mongolia Nigeria Puerto Rico All travellers into Ireland must have a negative pre-departure test and those from non-designated States must observe ‘Home Quarantine’.
The Carer’s Support Grant is an annual payment made to full-time carers. It is paid by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) usually on the first Thursday of June each year. The grant is €1,850 (an increase of €150 from last year). People getting Carer’s Allowance, Carer’s Benefit or Domiciliary Care Allowance are paid the … Read more
A person who lives in one country and works in another, returning to the country they live in at least once a week is aa cross border worker (also called a frontier worker). For example, a person who lives in Ireland and travels to work in Northern Ireland is a cross border worker. After Brexit, the UK … Read more
The Fighting Words 100 Years Creative Project will allow registered and participating schools from across the island to join workshops where stories and ideas can be shared. The focus of the project is on the social and cultural aspects of children’s lives over a century, and how they compare to life now.The Fighting Words 100 … Read more
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