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…

"You need not to get this disease, and you need to do that by keeping away from other people". That was the expert medical advice given to the nation last night on RTE's Primetime.

Covid-19 looks likely to rank among the most startling black swan events of history.  A black swan in economic parlance disturbs the existing paradigms, sails into sudden view out of seeming nowhere and shatters settled doctrines about white feathers, orange…

President Donald Trump has said the anti-malarial drug chloroquine should be given to coronavirus patients after early indications that it had helped cure and reduce the average hospitalization times of Covid-19 patients during a recent trial.

Showing no respect for social distancing, the drunk elephants fell asleep in a nearby tea garden, happy to have found more than they bargained for at the farm. 

When everything else in life is stripped bare, God is the one certainty that we can cling to.

It seems the coming days will determine how Taiwan is remembered in the fight against Covid-19.

Yesterday saw the largest jump by far in the number of people diagnosed with Covid 19 in this state. The increase of 191 people pushes the figure infected up from 336 to 557 in the south of Ireland. This is a jump of 52% in one day. Overall, there are 634…

BREAKING: Ireland now has 683 cases of coronavirus. Italy had 655 cases on 27th Feb, and that rose to over 41,000 by yesterday. Tim Jackson says Ireland must...

In times of crisis, there’s always someone ready to make a wisecrack about the situation. However, the people of New Berlin, Wisconsin, probably didn’t expect that with the covid-19 emergency the smart aleck would be their own local police department. 

The right to privacy is something that any democratic government should respect and defend, rather than ignore or even destroy, as the government of China appears to be doing.