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Covid-19
Influence of heatwave and cold snaps on spread of disease likely underestimated, says study
Study highlights need to understand how extreme weather events can alter disease dynamics
Ireland’s young adults on the future: ‘We are lost, forgotten about, no prospects’
From the housing crisis and precarious work to putting off big life decisions such as marriage and children, four people aged 19-37 are wary of what’s ahead
AIB weighs sale of more problem loans with face value of €500m
Portfolio featuring mortgages, business and unsecured loans includes borrowings that soured during Covid-19 pandemic
Covid inquiry: Ireland’s ‘evaluation’ is underequipped to deliver what public might expect
The pandemic saw a huge amount of power sucked into the centre of the ‘system’ with a small group operating with reduced checks and balances
Covid inquiry: Holohan, Varadkar unlikely to give public evidence for review about ‘learning lessons’
Evaluation panel launches public consultation inviting submissions on people’s pandemic experiences
More than 120 countries back treaty to share vaccines in pandemics
WHO chief acknowledges role played by Irish epidemiologist Dr Mike Ryan in helping to secure agreement
Dublin-based CityJet reports loss of €16.8m in 2023
Directors conclude ‘significant doubt’ over ability to continue as going concern
Dr Mike Ryan is dropped from WHO executive team amid ‘painful’ cost cuts
World Health Organisation has been thrown into crisis by Trump’s order directing the US to withdraw from the agency
Von der Leyen loses court fight over secret Pfizer texts
European Commission president exchanged messages with US pharmaceutical CEO during negotiations for Covid vaccines
A Portuguese nurse in Ireland: ‘Nurses are a lot more valued here’
Ana Vale Oliveira moved from Portugal to Ireland in May 2017 with her boyfriend
‘It is nice to know future surgeons gained skills because of my dad’: Body donated to science is returned to family two years on
Does someone who donates their remains for medical research receive a burial?
Little evidence of post-Covid ‘scarring’ to Irish labour market, new paper finds
Covid-19 study finds when restrictions were lifted there was a sharp increase in spending as consumers spent their accumulated pandemic-era savings
DAA lands near €300m profit despite passenger cap limitations
CEO Kenny Jacobs predicts airline demand will see passengers at Dublin rise to 36m this year
Over 7,000 businesses fail to comply with Covid-era back tax
Revenue’s Debt Warehousing Scheme has so far secured €3bn in outstanding liabilities
Pfizer’s Irish staff fear for jobs as drugmaker seeks another €1.5bn in cuts
Pharma giant now looking for $7.7bn in annual savings by 2027 as it grapples with falling post-Covid sales and lack of new blockbusters
Profits soar at Dublin’s famous O’Donoghue’s pub
Company behind Merrion Row establishment records post-tax profits of over €900k
Chief medical officer Mary Horgan: ‘People often forget how bad infections were; our memories sometimes are short’
Chief medical officer Mary Horgan on Covid-19, alcohol warning labels, and the goals for her time in office
Allianz Ireland dividends rack up to €300m since pandemic
Second-largest general insurer in the Irish market paid €100 million of dividends to its German parent last year, according to a new filing
Meet Ireland’s survivalists: ‘One bunker takes 150 people and has its own water source’
Preppers and survivalists have the skills, strategies and supplies to see them through all kinds of natural and man-made crises. They have one question: how prepared are you?
New records show Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa repeatedly Googled flu-like symptoms in run-up to death
Witness interviews and photographs of scene provide fresh insights into final days of Hackman and Arakawa
Long Covid sick pay scheme for healthcare staff to be wound down
Minister for Health says 166 healthcare workers currently in receipt of special scheme
Dublin canal locals complain of sun-seeking drinkers littering and ‘urinating in gardens’
Several hundred people flocked to Portobello on Friday, leaving a clean-up operation in their wake
‘Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply, no nature, no health’
If you think hospital waiting lists and access to GP care are challenging now, climate change will bring more difficulties
An Irish doctor on why she believes autism, ADHD and depression are being overdiagnosed
Are we living in an age of overmedicalisation? Overdiagnosis of conditions such as autism, ADHD and depression is a result of the relaxation of diagnostic criteria, says consultant in neurology Suzanne O’Sullivan
Greencore boss’s £1.2bn bid ambition a rarity among second-tier Irish plcs these days
Agreement in principle to buy Bakkavor marks a major departure in ambition for the Dublin-based sandwich and ready-meal maker
How well did the media do its job during Covid lockdowns?
Two new US books criticise the failure of journalism and academia to be more sceptical of the official narrative
Top vaccine official resigns from US FDA, citing Robert F Kennedy’s ‘misinformation and lies’
Dr Peter Marks steered the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine program during the coronavirus pandemic
The ‘pandemic puppy’ phenomenon: ‘With eight puppies bounding around the living room, life was getting rather busy’
Data from the CSO shows that 16 per cent of people got a pet during the Covid-19 period
The Covid-19 pandemic in pictures: Echoes of a crisis five years on
From social distancing restrictions to acts of remembrance, these are defining photographs of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland
Lab-leak claims about the origins of Covid don’t pass the smell test
A recent CIA assessment has again fuelled the Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy theory. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – and it simply isn’t there
Healthy over-70s had no idea they were old until the order came to ‘cocoon’
It was a cuddly, infantilising word for what many believed was effectively house arrest
Covid-19 five years on: Fewer handshakes, better work-life balance, some pet regret
Working from home has had positive effect on relationships with partners, survey also finds
House price inflation in Ireland reaches eight-year high
First quarter level of available second hand homes now at lowest since 2007
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