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Lives Lost: Fr Tom Cunningham from Omagh, Co Tyrone, 1929-2021
Lives Lost to Covid-19: Fr Tom Cunningham – a good listener who had the mind of an engineer

This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. You can read more of them here. If you (...)

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm during a Fridays for Future climate protest last week. The pandemic has only intensified the widespread appreciation that business as usual can no longer be countenanced. Photograph: Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images
Moral clarity of young people on climate crisis is a beacon for society
  • Opinion
  • September 29, 2020, 01:00

The teenagers of Ireland had planned on hosting a massive Fridays for Future protest last week on September 25th to remind their elders that they cont(...)

Asylum seekers on a roadside near the Moria refugees camp that was destroyed in a fire earlier this month, on Lesbos island, Greece. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
EU unveils plan to overhaul migration

New proposals to bring an end to overcrowded encampments of people living in desperate conditions on the fringes of Europe were unveiled in Brussels o(...)

Chief executive Caoimhe de Barra said “the Covid crisis has profoundly changed Trócaire’s work. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Covid-19 pandemic ‘has profoundly changed Trócaire’s work,’ says chief executive

Trócaire experienced “a slight dip in funding” in the year to February 2020, according to its annual report published today (tues). The Catholic Bisho(...)

Institute of Education on Lower Leeson Street: 44 per cent of teachers’ estimated grades were lowered. This compares with a national average of 17 per cent. File photograph: Alan Betson
Calculated grades process: Agent of warped bias or great leveller?

After logging on to the Leaving Cert results website last week, Saoirse Corbett Fitzpatrick felt devastated. “My single focus for the last two years (...)

Protesters for the Campaign to save St Mary’s Nursing Home on Merrion Road outside the High Court. File photograph: Tom Honan/The Irish Times.
Sudden closure of Sisters of Charity homes take staff, residents, and nuns by surprise

Joe Brabazon (83) has never received such a shock. His wife Kay (81), who suffers with Alzheimer’s disease,was in St Mary’s nursing home on Dublin’s M(...)

Campaigners call on the State to step in to keep St Mary’s Nursing Home on the Merrion Rd in Dublin open. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
Labour Court rules Sisters of Charity-owned firm should pay staff public service-scale redundancy

The Labour Court has ruled that 64 staff at the Sister of Charity-owned Caritas convalescent home on Dublin’s Merrion Rd should be given public sector(...)

St Mary’s Centre Nursing Home is one of two Sisters of Charity nursing homes in Dublin unable to pay redundancy to its staff.
No money to pay redundancy to nursing home staff – Sisters of Charity

Funds are not available to pay staff statutory redundancy at two Sisters of Charity nursing homes in Dublin which are being closed, the congregation h(...)

Supermarket workers: the pandemic unemployment benefit was more than some of these workers were paid ordinarily. Photograph: Alan Betson
Injustice of low-wage poverty exposed by Covid-19

Pope Francis, in a recent address, referred to “a pandemic of poverty” throughout the world. Almost 15 per cent of the world’s population live in extr(...)

In a Word . . . Charity

It’s that time of year when thou mayest on TV behold very many images of human misery, particularly the pain of wide-eyed children, as legions of char(...)

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