Michael Moynihan: Cork City needs a place where people can live and not just work
Cork needs a strategy for when Covid is not the number-one consideration, all day every day
A night time foggy view of the docks at Kennedy Quay, Cork City. The docklands development could accommodate 20,000 people and 29,000 jobs. Picture: Larry Cummins
Thu, 01 Apr, 2021 - 08:05 Last week the Taoiseach stood on the quay and revealed a major funding boost for Cork.
As reported by Alan Healy of this parish, Cork native Micheál Martin “confirmed funding of €353.4 million to enable works for what will be one of the largest regeneration programmes in the State.
Letters to the Editor: Diplomacy needed to avert disaster in Yemen
Smoke rises after Saudi-led airstrikes on an army base in Sanaa, Yemen. Picture: AP Photo/Hani Mohammed
Tue, 16 Mar, 2021 - 10:19
People in Yemen are starving to death; they are dying in hospitals, homes, and on the roadsides while fleeing to safety.
Many severely undernourished children who make it to the safety of the overcrowded Hodeidah Hospital on the Red Sea coast still die as their bodies are so weakened with starvation. According to the director of the UN World Food Programme 400,000 Yemini children are at risk of dying and 11m children need aid in the world’s worst humanitarian disaster. The UN estimates that 50% of healthcare facilities have shut down in a conflict that has displaced more than 3.6m people, over 80% of which are women and children. The coronavirus pandemic runs rampant among such dysfunctionality.
Joyce Fegan: Misogyny is a rot at the core of society
Emotions are our species’ navigation system. Ignoring feelings isn’t strong, it’s actually stupid
The suspect in the murder of Sarah Everard is a wonderful father apparently. Everyone gets given a narrative.
Sat, 13 Mar, 2021 - 12:57
On Monday, we told women to dream big, speak out, take up space, go where no woman has gone before.
On Tuesday, we told women to shut up, stay quiet, we don t believe you when you speak out.
On Wednesday, we told women it was their responsibility to stay home if they wanted to stay alive.
Irish Examiner view: Too close to a dangerous unravelling of Good Friday Agreement
1998 deal has worked and must be sustained or we risk political and social chaos
Nobody wants a return to the bad old days. File picture: PA
Fri, 05 Mar, 2021 - 10:17
It is a measure of the success of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) that the North and its interminable conflicts have moved from the everyday, blood-spattered consciousness, and occasional presence, in the lives of nearly everyone on this island to some sort of remote conundrum that may or may not be resolved in the fullness of time.
By its very success, the GFA has marginalised that unsettled, simmering question.
Green party TD: Legal opinion that Ceta deal is unconstitutional
High Court challenge against controversial trade agreement between EU and Canada
Green Party TD Patrick Costello pictured in February 2020 prior to his election to Dáil Éireann is challenging his Government colleagues about the Ceta trade deal. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Wed, 03 Mar, 2021 - 10:31
Aoife Moore, Political Correspondent
The Green Party TD who lodged a High Court challenge against the Government says there is legal opinion that the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (Ceta) is unconstitutional.
Dublin South Central representative Patrick Costello lodged the proceedings on Monday over whether a referendum would be needed on the controversial trade deal.