Sarah Burns Ireland
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Life under Level 5: Where can I go, who can I see, what is closed and what is open?
- Health
- October 19, 2020
Ireland has moved to a second national lockdown under a so-called “soft” Level 5 restrictions strategy for six weeks from Thursday October 22nd until (...)

Rate of package recycling slips, environmental agency says
- Environment
- July 31, 2020, 13:34
Ireland’s packaging recycling rates are going in the wrong direction, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said. Recycling rates for packag(...)

Ireland ranked 10th in EU for achieving UN’s sustainable development goals
- Social Affairs
- February 21, 2020, 18:26
Ireland ranks tenth out of 15 EU countries in this year’s sustainable progress index, commissioned by Social Justice Ireland. The index ranks countri(...)

‘They’re totally different, real individuals’ - Ireland’s only quintuplets turn 18
- Irish News
- August 22, 2019, 18:11
Ireland’s only set of quintuplets have turned 18 years of age. In August 2001 they arrived into the world weighing between 1lb 6oz and 1lb 11oz. Aft(...)

Ireland needs to be turned ‘entirely on its head’ to tackle climate change
- Environment
- May 14, 2019, 20:55
Ireland will have to be turned “entirely on its head” over the next decade to tackle climate change, the secretary general at the Department for Commu(...)

Ireland ranks second in Good Country Index
- Irish News
- January 29, 2019, 13:54
Ireland is ranked in second place in the Good Country Index. The Index of 153 countries measures what each contributes to the “common good of humani(...)

State’s second-level education rate among highest in OECD
- Education
- September 12, 2017, 10:00
Ireland has one of the highest completion rates of upper second-level education, according to the latest OECD report. Ireland has the third highest (...)