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Chair of national children’s hospital development board to step down
- Irish News
- January 22, 2021, 19:52
The chair of the board developing the national children’s hospital is to step down at the end of next month, The Irish Times has learned. The resigna(...)

Inspector who highlighted mother and baby homes to be remembered through scholarship
- Oireachtas
- January 21, 2021, 11:06
The Government is to establish a scholarship in memory of a Department of Local Government inspector who repeatedly raised concerns about mother and b(...)

Sinn Féin leader seeks answers from Taoiseach about Varadkar GP contract leak
- Politics
- January 21, 2021, 01:00
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has written to Taoiseach Micheál Martin seeking a response after Department of Health emails showed officials had c(...)

Leo Varadkar and the leak: New questions for Tánaiste about GP contract
- Politics
- January 20, 2021, 21:00
The release of internal Department of Health emails has put the focus again on one of the most controversial episodes in the lifetime of the present (...)

Donnelly insists clear protocol in place on vaccines after Harris comments
- Politics
- January 19, 2021, 18:34
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has told Cabinet colleagues there is a clear protocol in place for Covid-19 vaccinations, in what some colleagues(...)

Paid contracts for student nurses would ‘undermine training model’, Cabinet told
- Irish News
- January 19, 2021, 11:31
Offering student nurses contracts as paid healthcare assistants in hospitals would have more disadvantages than advantages, a report given by the Mini(...)

Students get almost 17,000 laptops in online learning scheme
- Work
- January 19, 2021, 04:10
Almost 17,000 laptops have been delivered to third-level students throughout Ireland as part of a publicly-funded scheme to facilitate online learnin(...)

Cabinet approves €91m plan to bring GPs, pharmacists into vaccine programme
- Irish News
- January 19, 2021, 03:00
Cabinet has approved a €91 million plan to bring family doctors and pharmacists into the State’s vaccination programme. The plan was presented t(...)

New online portal for people seeking to upskill or retrain
- Work
- January 18, 2021, 09:15
A new online portal for people seeking to upskill or retrain was launched by Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris on Monday. The on(...)

New training course participants can continue to claim PUP, Minister says
- Politics
- January 18, 2021, 01:00
More than 1,000 employers have applied for a grant-aided Government scheme to take on apprentices this year. As the State begins the roll-out next mo(...)