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September 14, 2020 No Responses

Planning Permission Granted For North To South Electricity Interconnector

Plans for a North-South interconnector in Ireland have been given the green light. It will create a 400kv overhead electricity line connecting with the Republic of Ireland, and has been described as “crucial” for handling growing demand across the island....

September 14, 2020 No Responses

Ireland Joins Five EU Nations In Testing Cross-Border Contact Tracing App

Ireland and five other European Union countries and the bloc’s executive commission have started testing a virtual “gateway” to ensure national coronavirus tracing apps can work across borders. The trial starting on Monday will allow Ireland’s comp...

September 13, 2020 No Responses

Social Contact Must Be Reduced At All Levels Says Taoiseach

People will have to reduce social contacts at all levels during the Government’s medium-term plan for living with Covid-19, the Taoiseach said. Micheal Martin again said his main aim was to keep schools and colleges open and this would take...

September 13, 2020 No Responses

DUP Denies That Latest Brexit Proposals Undermine Belfast Agreement

The DUP will attempt to amend the Internal Market Bill to ensure the UK sets the rules on state aid in Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Protocol sets out that EU state aid rules will apply to commerce. State aid...

September 12, 2020 No Responses

Almost Half Of Ireland’s New Coronavirus Cases In Dublin

Almost half of Ireland’s new coronavirus cases were in Dublin, the authorities said on Saturday. The Government would have no hesitation in implementing special restrictions in the city to curb the spread of coronavirus, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has warned. ...

September 11, 2020 No Responses

Sinn Féin Introduces Bill To Freeze Rents For Three Years

Sinn Féin is tabling a Bill next week that would ban future rent increases for three years. The party said the Ban on Rent Increases Bill would also allow rent to fall during the same period. A temporary ban on...

September 11, 2020 No Responses

Businesses In The North Frustrated By New Coronavirus Restrictions

Localized Covid-19 restrictions are causing frustration and confusion, business leaders in the North have said. Measures limiting social interaction between households amid soaring Covid-19 infection rates in areas like Belfast and Ballymena were announced on ...

September 10, 2020 No Responses

Nursing Home Regulator Lacks Needed Powers During The Pandemic

The current powers of the nursing home regulator are “not adequate” to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, an Oireachtas committee has been told. The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said legislation needs to change to give the regulator mor...

September 9, 2020 No Responses

Government’s Confusing Coronavirus Messaging An ‘Abuse Of Power’

The Government’s failure to properly communicate its Covid-19 public health message has been described as an “abuse of power”. TCD law professor Dr David Kenny told an Oireachtas committee that public health guidelines had confused members of the public....

September 9, 2020 No Responses

New Mural Helps Launch Sign Language Festival In Athy

A mural of a ballerina wearing boxing gloves is helping launch a visual and virtual Irish sign language festival in the midlands. Derek O’Sullivan from Solus Art specializes in street art. His work – entitled Strong – is intended to...

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