The US House of Representatives has presented a single article of impeachment to the Senate accusing Donald Trump of inciting the storming of the Capitol, setting in motion the first-ever impeachment trial of a former president. In a solemn procession last night, the nine House impeachment managers silently walked the article through the same ornate…
Ministers are set to recommend an extension to the Level 5 lockdown until March 5th. The Cabinet Covid-19 sub-committee met on Monday evening to agree new proposals for restrictions and travel curbs ahead of tomorrow's full meeting of Cabinet. According to The Irish Examiner, no decision has been made on the Leaving Cert or a…
A truck driver who was fined €1,500 for careless driving that caused the death of a three-year-old girl should have been given a custodial sentence, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has told the Court of Appeal. Appealing the sentence as unduly lenient, Shane Costelloe SC for the DPP said the message sent out is…
A nursing lecturer who has returned to the frontline during the pandemic has urged the public to stop leaving their 5km area, saying she is shocked by the amount of traffic she sees outside Cork University Hospital as staff attempt to save lives onsite. Dr Angela Flynn left active nursing in 2001 and started lecturing…
The full reopening of schools is unlikely to happen in the coming weeks as transmission of Covid-19 in the community remains too high, the deputy chief medical officer said. The daily case tallies have dropped significantly in recent weeks due to lockdown measures, with 1,372 cases reported on Monday, compared to a high of 8,248…
Police have launched an investigation after a sizeable crowd attended the funeral of a veteran republican in Derry city. Eamonn “Peggy” McCourt, from Creggan in Derry, died at the weekend having contracted Covid-19. His funeral was held on Monday in the city. Images later emerged of a large crowd following a hearse flanked by two…
A 17-year-old boy has been banned from using scrambler motorcycles after he was charged over a €40,000 drug seizure in Dublin last week. The youth, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was arrested after gardaí recovered heroin and cocaine at two locations around the Blanchardstown college campus of TU Dublin on January…
Community vaccinations will begin as planned next month despite disruptions to the delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Minister for Health said. Stephen Donnelly said on Monday that Ireland will receive a delivery within the expected range of doses for February, “although at the lower end of that range”. Non-healthcare workers over the age of…
A 46 year old man has been sent forward for trial on charges of threatening to kill two members of the family of 20-year-old Cork student Cameron Blair, who was murdered in the city in January, 2020. At Cork District Court today the book of evidence was served on on Noel Barry of Cherry Tree…
People Before Profit (PBP) has invited former Green Party members to consider joining their organisation in an open letter. The letter urges former members to examine PBP’s "eco-socialist policies" and to “enter a dialogue” with the Opposition party. It comes as on Monday, South County Dublin Councillor Peter Kavanagh became another prominent member to resign…
A further seven deaths and 1,372 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the Republic. The latest figures show 1,948 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, with 219 in intensive care. The latest figures came as the Government discussed plans to introduce a raft of tighter measures around travel. Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan said…
German supermarket chain Lidl is to create 1,200 jobs in Ireland over the next year. The positions will be in a range of operational and office-based roles in stores, regional distribution centres and its head office in the capital. The company intends to open six new outlets in Ireland this year and rebuild seven of…
An Irish man who witnessed his own death being announced on television 50 years ago has died with Covid-19 at the age of 99. James Cross, who was from Nenagh, Co Tipperary, was a central figure in the October Crisis in 1970, one of the gravest political and constitutional moments in Canada’s history. He was…
A Munster man who raped his younger sister in their family home in the 1980s has been jailed for five years. The man (48), who cannot be named for legal reason, told gardaí he believed the allegation was part of a “conspiracy” against him. He was convicted following a trial in November 2020 in the…
Domestic violence has surged since the start of the pandemic, with the number of people charged with related crimes last year rising by almost a quarter to 7,600. Garda sources said there was a significant increase in coercive control cases last year, which are often among the most extreme forms domestic violence. While there have…
This evening the Department of Health was notified of seven further Covid-related deaths and 1,372 new cases. It comes as the Minister for Health said that community vaccination against the virus will begin in mid-February, subject to regulatory approval. Here are five things we learned from this evening's briefing by the National Public Health Emergency Team: Continued improvement…
Tonight’s top telly includes Katie Price: Harvey and Me, another one-off special episode of Euphoria, a new run of The Bay, and Sharon Ní Bheoláin with the latest CrimeCall . . . Pick of the Day Katie Price: Harvey and Me, 8.30pm, BBC One Model and businesswoman Katie Price’s son Harvey was born with a…
Consultant Matthew Sadlier of the Irish Medical Organisation has called for greater transparency about who has had the Covid-19 vaccine and how many frontline workers have yet to be vaccinated. Speaking on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Dr Sadlier said the issue was about trying to protect patients, vaccinating frontline workers would mean that hospitals could…
Ministers will today examine whether to intensify checks on people quarantining at home after travel, with fines under consideration for those found not to be complying with “stay-at-home” obligations. It is understood some Ministers want to strengthen arrangements for those required to isolate after travelling abroad, even with a negative PCR test, with mandatory home…
More than 200,000 first-time patients lost out on hospital plans last year as the pandemic pressure meant elective treatments were cancelled, new figures reveal. Care was cancelled for 200,291 people going to their first out-patient or in-patient appointment. As the Irish Examiner reports, the true scale of the problem is much higher as patients expecting…
A buffer zone along the Border could be used to stop the spread of Covid-19 between Nothern Ireland and the Republic. The Independent Scientific Advocacy Group, which has been advocating for a zero-Covid strategy has written to the Government with a number of solutions, after the Taoiseach said the country is not in a position…
Remember in the first weeks of the pandemic last year when Italy was the focus of the outbreak? News out of China was sketchy, so most of what we saw and heard of the new virus was from northern Italy: ambulances racing along narrow and dark streets, locked down towns, rows of coffins in churches…
US HOUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi is set to send the Senate a single article of impeachment today accusing Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol riot, formally triggering the first-ever impeachment trial of a former president. Pelosi, the top Democrat in Congress, vowed last week that the trial – scheduled to open in the second week…
PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT MARCELO Rebelo de Sousa has been re-elected, according to media projections and partial results, after a poll held at the height of the country’s coronavirus crisis. The centre-right incumbent had been widely expected to win another term, and took 61.6% of the vote with almost all the results declared. Socialist challenger Ana Gomes…
NIGEL FARAGE’S DECLARATION that the ‘war was over’ within hours of the UK/EU trade deal being reached was one that was seconded by many of the significant figures at Westminster. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, previously the Party’s chief cheerleader for a ‘People’s Vote’ repeating Farage’s choice of phrase and insisted that the question of…
THREE-QUARTERS OF people will take a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the results of a new opinion poll. The survey shows that 75% of people will take a Covid-19 vaccine; almost one-fifth (18%) are unsure and 7% said they will not take one. The findings are from a survey carried out by Ipsos MRBI for the…
The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their Covid-19 losses within just nine months, while it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, a new report from Oxfam revealed today. Mirroring this global inequality trend, Ireland’s own nine billionaires saw their fortunes…
An article of impeachment against Donald Trump will be sent to the US Senate today paving the way for his trial next month. The former US president was impeached by the House of Representatives two weeks ago, with Democrats accusing him of inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol building. US Senators will be sworn-in…
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