Calls to send every household in the country a bundle of reusable face masks to reduce Covid-19 transmission are being supported by Dr Cillian de Gascun, chair of the Government's expert advisory group on the virus.
Every year, a quarter of a million children go missing in Europe. That's one every two minutes, every day of every year.
There is a tendency among political anoraks to reduce government formation to a puerile horse race in which politicians are the ultimate winners and losers.
The Covid-19 crisis could "morph into a banking crisis" if the State doesn't do more to help small firms cope with inter-company debts averaging €78,000, Isme has warned.
The Central Bank will expect greater consistency among banks when they set out the financial hit from the Covid-19 crisis in the second quarter of the year, a top regulator has warned.
A throng of protesters banged into the Confederate monument in Birmingham, Alabama, covering the statue with red spray-paint and chipping away at its base with rocks. One group tried to use a thick green rope to bring down the 52-foot obelisk.
Nurses and healthcare assistants account for more than half the health workers who have caught the coronavirus, new figures reveal.
