Michael Finn
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School during Covid-19: ‘Keeping all the windows open, you’re freezing’
- People
- December 12, 2020, 06:00
At 8.30 am, around 1,600 masked students arrive at Gorey Community School, the largest school in the country. At each entrance they receive hand sanit(...)

Driving for work accounts for one in three road collisions each year
- Irish News
- January 31, 2019, 15:18
Driving for work accounts for about one in three road collisions in the State every year, with the so-called “gig economy” and people using their own (...)

Varadkar urges ‘accountability’ over Garda breath tests
- Crime & Law
- November 3, 2017, 01:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin must move to ensure “individual accountability” follows the Garda breath-te(...)

Pressure mounts for action against gardaí in breath-test scandal
- Politics
- November 2, 2017, 05:00
Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin is coming under pressure to pursue disciplinary or criminal proceedings against gardaí involved in inflatin(...)

Some motorists may have wrongly spent time in prison, committee hears
- Crime & Law
- October 4, 2017, 14:52
Some motorists caught up in the botched operation of the penalty points system may have spent time in prison as a result and the State is facing resul(...)

Defence Forces chief to be nominated for EU’s highest military position
- Politics
- September 19, 2017, 15:14
The Government is to nominate the chief of staff of the Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett, for appointment to the highest military position w(...)

Garda breath test scandal: How did we get here?
- Crime & Law
- September 6, 2017, 16:08
The first public indication that something was amiss with An Garda Síochána’s recording of breath tests came last year, when the force stopped publish(...)

Meet Ireland’s players in the Aussie Rules World Cup
- Abroad
- July 29, 2017, 07:00
When the AFL International, the World Cup of Australian Rules Football, kicks off in Melbourne next weekend, the host country won’t be fielding a team(...)

Number of cyclist deaths doubles in first half of year
- Crime & Law
- July 18, 2017, 19:55
The number of cyclists killed on the roads in the first half of this year was double that recorded in the same period in 2016, gardaí have said. Ten(...)

Gardaí catch 226 speeding drivers on ‘Slow Down Day’
- Crime & Law
- May 27, 2017, 15:57
Gardaí detected 226 vehicles breaking the speed limit over National Slow Down Day, which ended at 7am on Saturday. . In total, 134,739 vehicles were (...)