Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 10, 2020
A small but dedicated team of horticulturists caring for RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey have left a message for NHS workers and carers.
May 10, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 10, 2020
The secondary teachers' union, ASTI, has confirmed it will engage with the calculated grades process for the Leaving Cert, but says students should receive the full marks for the cancelled...
May 10, 2020
The social justice arm of Jay-Z's Roc Nation entertainment company has called for state officials to take quick action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities...
May 10, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 10, 2020
Follow the latest coronavirus news in Ireland and across the world on the Independent.ie live blog.
May 10, 2020
The Middle East's biggest carrier, Emirates, has announced profits of 288 million US dollars (£232 million) for the past year, although revenue declined due to flight suspensions sparked by the...
May 10, 2020
South Korea's president is urging citizens not to let their guard down, but said there is no reason to panic amid fears of a new surge in the coronavirus outbreak...
May 10, 2020
South Korea's president is urging citizens not to lower their guard down, but said there is no reason to be panicked amid worries about a new surge in the coronavirus...
May 10, 2020
The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick, their families and health workers.
May 10, 2020
The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick, their families and health workers.
May 10, 2020
The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick, their families and health workers.
May 10, 2020
Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr Anthony Fauci, have placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.
May 10, 2020
Mitchell McDermott, a Dublin-based construction consultancy, has warned about the potential for disputes over construction sector productivity as Covid-19 delays progress on sites.
May 10, 2020
Three months ago this weekend, counting had just begun after the general election. Sinn Fein was soon declaring victory. The experts were agreed. The political landscape had been radically reshaped...
May 10, 2020
Covid-19 is causing unprecedented challenges for businesses. Unlike previous crises, the pandemic affects companies of all sizes and sectors, selling into practically all markets.
May 10, 2020
After the final hurdles were cleared in their exhaustive strategy to relaunch the Bundesliga season, German football authorities were planning to hold the first match on May 15 - next...
May 10, 2020
Greencore, an Irish food producer headed by Patrick Coveney, has been issued with a formal grievance by a union which claimed it failed to tell staff after a manager tested...
May 10, 2020
Generation X - why do we never hear anything about us? Like an awkward, middle child squashed between the conservative, greedy Boomers and the whining, entitled Millennials - who divvy...
May 10, 2020
Anyone who has spent the best part of an hour just waiting to cross a supermarket threshold in the past few weeks will be aware how quickly the outlandish becomes...
May 10, 2020
Q. My ex-wife and I got divorced last year and as part of the divorce settlement I have to pay family maintenance payments to support our children. My employer was...
May 10, 2020
This week, a big thank you to Leo Varadkar for restoring a sense of reality to my poor, befuddled mind.
May 10, 2020
Mike Maloney has seen his fair share of fraught days in business. When he took over as CEO of Payzone in 2008, the troubled payments firm was dubbed 'Warzone' in...
May 10, 2020
So there I was last Tuesday afternoon, back in the centre of the village for the first time in two months, enjoying my first ice cream of the season. Like...
May 10, 2020
My Money: ‘If you do what you are supposed to do in life, you have to trust it will provide for you’
The fiddler Martin Hayes is a leading traditional Irish musician. He grew up in east Co Clare and is now living in Madrid with his wife, Lina.
May 10, 2020
Little Richard, the self-proclaimed "architect of rock 'n' roll" whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died yesterday....
May 10, 2020
A mammoth 20.5 million workers lost their jobs in the US in April as the coronavirus triggered the worst employment crisis since the Great Depression.
May 10, 2020
Anyone who has spent the best part of an hour just waiting to cross a supermarket threshold in the past few weeks will be aware how quickly the outlandish becomes...
May 10, 2020
Irish security expert Sharp Group has launched a new body temperature-scanning device it claims will enable businesses to reopen more quickly.
May 10, 2020
Last Wednesday, lying on my hospital bed, coming out of the claustrophobia of an MRI scan, I got a supportive phone call from President Michael D Higgins.
May 10, 2020
Irish retailers are working on a range of measures to pave the way for the opening of shops, including reservations for consultations and limiting the amount of time consumers can...
May 10, 2020
Concluding his recent Covid-19 interview on The Late Late Show, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar signalled, finally, that there is a requirement to look at how we, as a society, care for...
May 10, 2020
Physical distancing would cut the capacity at Dublin Airport by 70pc with passengers potentially facing huge queues into the car parks, according to DAA chief executive Dalton Philips.
May 10, 2020
The phoney war is over. The consequential battles have begun. Six months from now, we'll know the results of the 2020 US presidential election.
May 10, 2020
State-owned Home Building Finance Ireland (HBFI) is launching a series of new measures to expand its housebuilding finance ahead of a resumption of construction activity.
May 10, 2020
According to her son, Eleanor Roosevelt said the same prayer every night and closed with this wish: "Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made...
May 10, 2020
In aviation these days you can go from hero to zero in just one tweet. Aer Lingus crew were feted by the nation on The Late Late Show for quickly...
May 10, 2020
One of the more heartening aspects of the coronavirus crisis has been the willingness of around 70,000 mostly young health care professionals to travel from the four corners of the...
May 10, 2020
US pharmaceutical firm Gilead this month received authorisation for its antiviral drug Remdesivir in the treatment of hospitalised patients with severe Covid-19.
