Irish restaurants and hotels are struggling to cope with an avalanche of festive bookings ahead of their busiest weekend of the year.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Business
After much debate, the OPEC+ group has finally reached an agreement on oil production for next year. Or at least for January. OPEC+ will, as a group, add in 500,000...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Powerful winds that pushed wildfires through Southern California, burning several homes and injuring two firefighters, began easing but forecasters warned that the fire danger remained Friday. Santa Ana winds hit...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
California is on the brink of a new stay-at-home order that would close businesses and curb travel in regions that could see hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Down a Zoom line from Meath, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is quoting Muiris Ó Súilleabháin's famous memoir on life on the Blasket Islands.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Business
Global food prices hit six-year high as Covid-19 pandemic turns into major driver of food inequality
World prices for food commodities saw a steep year-on-year increase in November, hitting an almost six-year high, with the index posting its sharpest monthly spike since July 2012, according to...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Located smack in the middle of Hong Kong's bustling Mong Kok neighborhood, Dignity Kitchen offers an array of mouthwatering Singaporean fare — from piping-hot laksa (noodles in a spicy coconut...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Ireland could be facing another potential lockdown in mid-January if Christmas and New Year socialising pushes Covid-19 case numbers up to 1,200 cases a day, it emerged last night.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Friday's monthly U.S. jobs report will help answer a key question overhanging the economy: Just how much damage is being caused by the resurgent coronavirus, the resulting curbs on businesses...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Paula and Anthony Hunter spun off their catering service into a restaurant serving Italian food with a “touch of soul” right before the coronavirus hit. Soon, both Louisville businesses slammed...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
The cellphone video shot in the dark by a woman in a parked car appeared to show something ominous: a man closing the doors of a white van and then...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Friday after Pfizer Inc. cut the number of doses of a planned coronavirus vaccine it might ship this year. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Optimism about delivering long-sought COVID-19 relief is building on Capitol Hill after additional rank-and-file lawmakers voiced support for a bipartisan, middle-of-the-road plan taking shape in the Senate and as top...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
CONSTRUCTION Joe Cerri has been named vice president and director of field operations at Plaza Construction. He was previously executive vice president of construction at Straticon Prime. Before that, Cerri...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
I strongly support another stimulus package. I understand the concerns of the deficit, however, I don't believe the U.S. has a choice. We have to jump start the economy, and...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
When it comes to prices for professional services: To raise or not to raise, that is the question. And just as in Shakespeare's famous scene, in which Prince Hamlet hems...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Business
Stock investors have not been deterred by rising COVID-19 infection rates, increasing hospitalizations or a trio of pending decisions to address the growing pandemic. On Thursday, the FDA's Vaccines and...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
South Korea has recorded 629 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily tally in about nine months. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Friday...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
South Korea has recorded 629 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily tally in about nine months. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Friday...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Gusts reaching 70mph have fuelled the spread of a California wildfire, one of several which has forced residents to flee their homes.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Gusts reaching 70mph have fuelled the spread of a California wildfire, one of several which has forced residents to flee their homes.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Escalating his attack on democracy from within the White House, President Donald Trump on Wednesday distributed an astonishing 46-minute video rant filled with baseless allegations of voter fraud and outright...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Pavee Point is backing calls by a Government minister to hundreds of transient Irish Travellers not to return to their County Limerick home town for Christmas.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Sports organisations have been offered hope that strict Covid-19 curbs on their activities can be eased in the New Year.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Irish restaurants and hotels are struggling to cope with an avalanche of festive bookings ahead of their busiest weekend of the year.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Hundreds of mostly maskless protesters stood shoulder to shoulder outside a Staten Island bar to demonstrate against the state's coronavirus restrictions and support a tavern forced to shut down for...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
US President Donald Trump's daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump said she was deposed for more than five hours by attorneys alleging that the president's 2017 inauguration committee misused donor...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
The Government has been warned to be on high alert for the sale of black market Covid-19 vaccines as it prepares to roll out a national vaccination programme.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
A student is raising money for a children's charity by reimagining one of the world's most famous paintings with an up-to-the-minute Covid-19 twist.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
The supply chain needed to distribute the coronavirus vaccine around the world has been targeted by hackers, according to IBM.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
France's embattled interior minister yesterday announced raids on dozens of mosques suspected of Islamist extremism, following President Emmanuel Macron's pledge to fight “separatism” in the wake of terror attacks.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Bill Clinton, the former US president, did visit Jeffrey Epstein's private island despite his claims to the contrary, his former associate has claimed.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Washington's legal fraternity is braced for a storm of clemency action from President Donald Trump that could test the limits of presidential pardon power.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Farming
Farmers who supply 50 million gallons of milk a year to the huge Wyeth Nutritionals plant in Limerick will have to prove their environmental credentials or risk losing sales.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
Ireland could be facing another potential lockdown in mid-January if Christmas and New Year socialising pushes Covid-19 case numbers up to 1,200 cases a day, it emerged last night.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
A former professional cage fighter who murdered his ex-girlfriend in front of her 13-year-old daughter has been jailed for a minimum of 32 years.
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Breaking News
How well prepared are health authorities in the Republic for the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine?
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
Lawyers for a church with more than 160 congregations across California said they would seek an immediate court order Thursday allowing indoor worship after the Supreme Court told a lower...
Posted by | December 4, 2020 | Politics
A Southern California real estate developer pleaded guilty on Thursday in a money-laundering case that involved providing illegal contributions to the campaigns of six Los Angeles politicians. Samuel Leung, 70,...
