What is COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment?

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

Recruitment is ongoing for COVID-19 Vaccinators by HSE

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

Ryanair Flight 4978 (Athens–Vilnius) was diverted to Minsk National Airport after a false bomb threat

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

Recall of additional batches of “Greggs Vegetable Bakes” due to the Possible Presence of Glass

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

3,000 vacant local authority homes to be refurbished and re-let in 2021

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

Public Health England (PHE)- The Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine is 88% effective against the Indian variant after two doses,

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

A 66-year-old Cork woman has been jailed for for refusing to wear a face mask in court

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

SuperValu Tidy Towns Competition announced today.

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, has today removed six States for mandatory hotel quarantine

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’.

Ireland will adopt a COVID-19 certificate to help citizens travel more freely “as early as possible”

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

Cruinniú na nÓg Cork City-A day of free creativity for children and young people

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

“Lost Children Archive” by Valeria Luiselli is the winner of this year’s Dublin Literary Award

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

IMPORTANT UPDATE – Long stay Join Family visa in the priority/emergency list for visas of Ireland

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