Fair play to Conor McGregor. Times like this reveal the true measure of a man and in pledging €1 million to fight Covid-19 the MMA star has done this country some service. "I know a good tough fight when I see one, and we have one on our hands now," he says, "I want to...
Kobba, a creative marketing agency based in Dublin, has diversified its business due to the coronavirus outbreak, designing and selling protective counter tops and face shields for retail and health workers.
Covid-19 has turned our lives upside down. Many people have lost jobs, many are sick, schools are shut, and the freedom to go about life as we previously knew it is gone -though hopefully temporarily. As we all well know by now, your health is your wealth. All the same though, limiting the financial toll...
As the public health measures intensify it is natural to focus on the figures for confirmed cases, hospital admissions and, tragically, fatalities. But the epidemic will end, the measures will be relaxed and the steep collapse in economic activity will reverse. With luck, this could happen in months but none of the experts can rule...
As the Flat season began in Naas last Monday, Irish racing was Europe's last sport standing. This was nothing to be proud of. The following day the Taoiseach announced a ban on all sporting events as part of a new raft of government measures designed to combat the spread of the Covid-19 virus.
Orders from retailers to one of the country's biggest fresh food growers and suppliers, Country Crest, are currently as much as 30pc ahead of normal.
The last time retired civil servant Tom Best saw his wife of 51 years alive was when she was being placed in an ambulance and driven away from the home they shared in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh, last Wednesday afternoon.
