COVID-19: What we know so far
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised that people over 60, or with underlying respiratory or cardiac health conditions, avoid crowded places in an...
Coveney condemns Israel’s Palestinian settlements
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has said Ireland supports the EU’s position of condemning Israel’s policy of building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The EU issued...
Is there finally light at the end of the Brexit tunnel?
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hailed a “positive” private meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday, saying a deal is “possible” by October 31.
In a...
‘Age no barrier to telling truth about climate change’
Two people born 62 years apart and in different centuries restored my faith in public representation this past week.
Ireland’s president, Michael D Higgins (born...
Pope urges all to respect nature and go green
More than 4,500 Catholic churches and schools here in England and Wales have switched to renewable gas and electricity supplied by British Gas in...
Trump’s Doonbeg visit ‘to cost Irish taxpayers €10m’.
Irish taxpayers are facing a €10m bill for US President Donald Trump to visit and stay at his privately-owned golf club and holiday resort...
Ireland follows UK as second country to declare climate emergency
PJ Cunningham examines Ireland's all-party response to humanity’s ‘greatest challenge’.
All Ireland’s major parties took a break from fighting tooth and nail for votes...
A climate of change
Less than a year ago Ireland was named and shamed as one of the worst performing countries in meeting its climate change obligations.
Biodiversity...
Protestors demand Ireland boycott Israel’s Eurovision
By PJ Cunningham
Major events in sports and entertainment have long been targeted as a means of getting political messages to a wider public....