Articles by James Brennan

This morning, tens of thousands of people can stay in bed and have a lie-in after the government issued measures that will see all non essential businesses closed until April 19th. In Tuesday’s briefing, the …

The UK had its highest daily number of deaths from coronavirus today with 87, with the national total standing at 422. The Department of Health and Social Affairs released the latest figures on the first …

The HSE announced on Sunday evening that there was 219 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland with another two people dying. It brings the total in the Republic of Ireland to 1,273 with …

In breaking news this evening, the HSE has announced that another 204 confirmed cases of coronavirus have been detected in the Republic of Ireland. It brings the total in the Republic of Ireland to 1,329. …

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that he is not and will not use the word ‘lockdown’ because he said that it creates confusion and that Ireland has enough confusion already. The caretaker Taoiseach said that …

In what could be described as very watered-down lockdown measures compared to the UK, the Irish government has gone with a completely different response. In a briefing today, the government has announced that emergency measures have …

Dr Ken Egan was interviewed on Monday night’s Claire Byrne Live show. The 75-yr-old Mayo man is a retired General Practitioner has announced that he’s bravely coming out of retirement to do his bit and …

Model Grainne Gallanagh, who recently got to the final of Dancing With The Stars, was interviewed on last night’s Claire Byrne Live show about how she’s decided to go back nursing to help fight the …

  The Liberal held a poll asking our readers whether they thought they Ireland needed to have a full lockdown to combat the threat of covid-19. Many people believe that restrictions aren’t stringent enough and …