The advice relating to mocks comes ahead of Leaving Cert. students returning to school on Monday. Further clarity on what the Leaving Cert. will look like this year will not be available until the end of next month. The Department of Education has announced that each exam will have fewer questions this year, but the […]

The Irish Refugee Council has welcomed the announcement to abolish Direct Provision over the next four years. All centres will close in the next four years – abolishing a system set up in 1999. The Department of Equality says the current system will come to an end in 2024. From then, asylum-seekers will stay in […]

The centre of Galway city has an incidence rate of Covid-19 which is over five times the national average. The local electoral area had a 14-day incidence rate of 1,292 per 100,000 people on Monday. That compares to the national average of 240, while the second highest is Ballymun-Finglas LEA in Dublin, at 798. Galway […]

People arriving into Ireland from certain countries will have to complete a two week hotel quarantine. The Dáil has passed new laws proposing mandatory hotel quarantine for people coming into Ireland from high risk countries. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Doctor Ronan Glynn are meeting this evening to talk about […]

The Taoiseach says March is a very important month for getting Covid-19 numbers down. 597 people with Covid-19 are being treated in public hospitals, the first time the figure has fallen below 600 since January 1st. Micheal Martin has mooted the possibility of bringing back outdoor activities, sport and relaxing the 5km rule on April […]

More than half of voters say the government is ‘not doing a good job’ in dealing with the pandemic. According to an Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll, the rate now stands at 51 per cent – up 15 per cent since last autumn. Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Health Minister Stephen Donnelly also received poor ratings from […]

A restaurant owner in Co Kerry says he is opening his restaurant in July and is prepared to be arrested if needs be. Paul Treyvaud says if he is not open by then everything he has worked for is gone. Although that ultimatum is still four months away, it’s still unclear when hospitality is set […]

The rave was due to happen in the Kildare/Dublin area. All social media accounts linked to a rave planned to take place on St Patrick’s Day have been taken down. Two Instagram accounts have been now removed. In recent days, the organisers reported that their Snapchat account had been suspended, along with the PayPal account […]

Two women have been arrested after a Dublin beauty salon opened for a second day in a row despite level five restrictions. C and N Beauty Rooms in Balbriggan opened this morning. Yesterday, Gardaí warned the owner of C and N Beauty Rooms that if she reopened again she would be arrested. Despite the warning, […]

pic.twitter.com/vZitnFV0YA — Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) February 24, 2021 Tiger Woods is responsive and recovering in hospital following a serious car crash in Los Angeles. The golfer was the only person in the S-U-V when it crashed at around 7am yesterday. He has undergone a long surgery on his right leg and has received screws and […]