The COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is available to employees and the self-employed who have lost their job on or after 13 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please ensure that you read and satisfy yourself regarding the eligibility conditions of the scheme before applying. Applications will now be accepted until the end of June 2021 You should apply … Read more
If you’re a healthcare student, you can apply for the role of #COVIDVaccine vaccinator . Recruitment is ongoing for COVID-19 Vaccinators. Details of the professions and eligible students are on the below webpage of HSE https://bit.ly/34gaQcR The extended closing date for the Vaccinator Recruitment Campaign is 12 noon Tuesday, 01st June 2021 for both Registered … Read more
The plane carrying Roman Protasevich was flying from Greece to Lithuania before being intercepted and forced to divert to Belarus.The flight from Athens International Airport, Greece, to Vilnius Airport, Lithuania, was intercepted by a Belarusian fighter jet on the pretence of a bomb threat on the orders of President Alexander Lukashenko, and escorted to Minsk. Once the aircraft was on … Read more
Further to FSAI food alert Thursday, 6 May 2021, Greggs Bakers Ltd. is recalling additional batches of its Greggs Vegetable Bakes due to the possible presence of glass. Point-of-sale recall notices will be displayed in Iceland stores. Category 2: For Information Alert Notification: 2021.39 update 1 Product: Greggs Vegetable Bakes 2 pack; pack size: 310g Batch … Read more
Building on the success of last year’s record investment in the voids programme, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has today announced another voids programme for 2021 which will see his Department provide funding for the refurbishment and re-letting of approx. 3,000 social homes this year. All 31 Local Authorities … Read more
New study by Public Health England (PHE) shows for the first time that 2 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective against the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India. Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease from the B.1.617.2 variant is similar after 2 doses compared to the B.1.1.7 (Kent) variant dominant in the UK, and … Read more
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
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’.
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
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
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
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