Healthcare workers, who are deemed close contacts of someone with Covid 19, are being asked to return to work if they have no symptoms. It comes as the number of patients in hospital with the virus hits another record high. Latest figures show 1,750 patients are being treated in hospital with Covid 19 and 158 […]

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of 46 additional deaths related to COVID-19. 2 of these deaths occurred in December 2020, and the remaining 44 occurred in January 2021. While the HPSC has been notified of 3,086 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of the cases notified today: 1,425 are men / 1,642 […]

Three members of the Mayo senior football management team have each been given three month suspensions. The Mayo county board have imposed the sanctions on the members of James Horan’s backroom team after they attended December’s All-Ireland football final without accreditation. Under the Covid guidelines at the time, counties were only permitted to bring a […]

  The Irish Road Haulage Association is calling for customs regulations to be relaxed for two weeks to allow the flow of traffic to resume. It claims the new customs system is cumbersome and has described Dublin Port as a mess. The IRHA claims 73 drivers spent the night at Dublin Port last night because […]

The trade union Forsa claims people working in the public sector are attending workplaces when not needed – despite public health advice. The Government says people should work from home unless they are providing an essential service and need to be physically present in an office. The union claim the guidelines are being undermined by […]

13 intensive care units nationally are full, while there are 30 adult ICU beds available. 1,700 with Covid-19 are in hospitals this morning – the highest number since the pandemic began. It’s also almost double the peak of the first wave, which was 881 on April 15th. In the past 24 hours there have been […]

4,929 covid cases have been confirmed and 8 additional deaths. 1513 of the cases are in Dublin, 695 in Cork, 320 in Limerick, 305 in Wexford, 225 in Galway and the remaining 1871 cases are spread across all other counties. As of this afternoon, 1,582 patients are in hospital with 146 in ICU. Chair of […]

Leading Mock exam paper manufacturer DEB Exams says it’s suspending all products and services to schools for the rest of the academic year. It means the company will not be able to fulfil any orders that schools have already placed. DEB Exams has been providing mock papers and exam stationery for over 75 years. They […]

The Terminator doesn’t hold back. Arnold Schwarzenegger has posted a video message to social media condemning riots of Trump supporters at Washington D.C.’s Capitol Building. In the video, he recalls growing up in Austria during the years following World War 2, and witnessing the fallout of Nazi’s and the Holocaust: I grew up in Austria. […]