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HSE boss ‘extremely frustrated’ at Beacon refusal to sign surge capacity deal
- Health
- January 16, 2021, 17:41
The chief executive of the HSE Paul Reid has criticised the private Beacon Hospital in south Dublin for not signing up to an agreement to provide addi(...)

This is the year I ... quit meat, speak Irish, start a business
- People
- January 16, 2021, 06:00
While 2020 upended many of our plans, it also spurred some people on to make a change in their lives. While we may not be free of Covid yet, the exper(...)

How did Ireland jump from low Covid base to world’s highest infection rate?
- Health
- January 16, 2021, 01:00
Nobody thought it would be this bad. Had we known then what we know now. There was huge demand to reopen the country. People had been locked in for No(...)

Covid-19: Half of all reported Covid cases in pandemic were in past fortnight
- Health
- January 15, 2021
Public health officials are looking at reducing the length of time the contact of a Covid-19 case has to restrict movement, but only when case numbers(...)

Pulling with My Parents: It’s sweet to see people discussing Tinder filth with their folks
- Culture
- January 15, 2021, 05:00
When I was young, people didn’t really talk about sexual matters with their parents. The exactly three times my parents had sex in order to conceive m(...)

‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’
- Irish News
- January 15, 2021, 01:00
Last week Stephanie Walsh wrote in The Irish Times about how she was asked in 1971 if her family would offer a temporary home to a young pregnant girl(...)

No Irish Need Apply – Frank McNally on the national hang-up about capital punishment
- Opinion
- January 14, 2021, 19:01
Of all the State’s failures in the century since independence, there is at least one from which we might take reasonable pride. In the decades before (...)

Commission dealt with 1.3m documents and held 195 hearings
- Religion & Beliefs
- January 14, 2021, 18:55
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission states in bold type in its report that “the conclusions it reaches may not always accord with the prevailing narr(...)

Seven credit unions join Covid-19 loan guarantee scheme
- Financial Services
- January 14, 2021, 18:25
Seven of the Republic’s largest credit unions and three non-bank lenders have signed up to participate in the Government’s €2 billion Covid-19 Credit (...)

HSE’s Paul Reid says there is a ‘race to save lives’ in hospitals as 77,300 vaccinated against Covid-19
- Irish News
- January 14, 2021, 16:51
A total of 77,303 Covid-19 vaccines have already been administered, with 69,378 vaccinations going to frontline healthcare staff, HSE chief executive (...)