Irish Ambassador to Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, penned a book with Dr. Oliver Johnson entitled ‘Getting to Zero (A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline). The title, as indicated, relates to getting to zero cases of Ebola…

The city of Philadelphia yesterday announced that, due to the outbreak of COVID-19, police will no longer arrest those found committing a number of offences, including theft, burglary, prostitution, and drug offences, effective immediately. Instead of arresting…

The preacher asked if he was allowed to say "that homosexuality is wrong". "It depends what you're saying," replied the policeman "but if I hear something and I don't think it's right I'll act upon it."

Bernie Sanders has announced he will return to his home-state of Vermont to "assess his campaign" with supporters after significant losses to Joe Biden in recent primary contests. 

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Recently, it's felt like Students’ Union leaderships are more concerned with political posturing and furthering their agendas than acting for the student body. This could not have been made clearer than from the recent exposés we have seen from The Burkean…

So apparently there’s this illness going around at the moment, you might have heard about it, kind of a big deal. Sorry, don’t mean to be flippant – it is my defence mechanism. For a number of weeks now I have been viewing the COVID-19 outbreak in other parts…

A disproportionate number of very strange stories about the Reproductive Revolution originate in the land of fruits and nuts, i.e. California. However, it would be unfair to ignore Florida, a state which does a lot of heavy lifting in this area. Pulitzer…

New figures from the Department of Health show that two-thirds of confirmed cases of COVID-19 as at Monday of this week are in people under the age of 55. The National Public Health Emergency Team analysed 271 cases notified as at midnight Monday, 16 March.…

The Minister for Education Joe McHugh has announced that all Leaving Certificate students studying languages will receive marks of 100% in lieu of oral assessments.

Tim Jackson is in agreement with Joe Brolly about the Taoiseach's speech.

Evil.

Terms like ‘self-isolation, ‘social distancing’ and even ‘cocooning’ are fast becoming part of our national vocabulary. For the vast majority of people, these new practices and behaviours will be somewhere between a major and minor inconvenience. Some businesses…

Carol Nolan, Independent TD for Laois-Offaly, says the banks must repay the generoisty of the Irish taxpayers and is encouraging a freeze on mortgage payment...

Constitutional issues.

15 Italians who were in Ireland for flight assistant training with  Ryanair have Covid19. Some of them were under treatment in two hospitals  in Dublin while others have been quarantined. It is believed that they contracted the virus in Bergamo, near Milan…

Cabbages.

They will also broadcast messages from non-Catholic denominations and religions following daily Mass.

The Department of Justice has said concerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted them to transfer 150 asylum seekers to a new Direct Provision centre in Cahersiveen, Kerry. 

Just when you thought things in this #Covid-19 landscape couldn’t get more frustrating, along comes some god-awful celebrity video to annoy us.  Everyone is already restless, housebound, kind of scared, and fairly fed-up. The kids are moping around the house…

With whispers of an end to partition on the lips of many, with predictions of a border poll rife, and with the British government exhibiting increasing signs of disinterest in the Ulster Plantation, it seems the arc of history is slowly bending towards Irish…