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Students Turn to SVP To Bridge Gaps in Government College Funding
Students receiving Government grants are still turning to charitable assistance to meet the costs of university, with the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) reporting that its education bursaries support over 2,000 students. SVP said its Education and Training bursary fund had provided over €3 million towards expenses including books, laptops, course fees, travel,…
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A new €2,000 Government grant for homeowners replacing fossil-fuel heating systems with heat pumps has come into effect, but the cost of a full retrofit could still leave some households facing significant bills. The boiler scrappage grant became available as part of a wider package of changes to the Government’s home energy supports, aimed at…
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The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, has moved to ban loyalty card discounts on alcohol across all Irish supermarkets to curb excessive consumption. While previous legislation, which took effect in 2023, banned loyalty card points from being used on alcohol, many supermarkets got around it by leveraging their loyalty cards, such as Tesco Clubcard. Loyalty…
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Credit Kampus Productions at pexels.com The long-lasting social stigma of mental health prompts the question, why do men suffer in silence? Some men suffer due to childhood abuse, some struggle with day-to-day stresses such as work or college, while others suffer from domestic violence or even depression. Domestic violence is a difficult situation to escape,…
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COVID-19 arrives in March of 2020 with a peculiar pause as society closes its doors. In Dublin, IADT student Chloe Michelle Howarth begins to pack her bags to head back to her family home in West Cork to quarantine. Somewhere within that still isolation, Howarth began to write a queer coming-of-age novel which will go…
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PublicPurse.ie is a brand-new independent transparency project that collects and organises information about government spending. Built by William Kennedy, the project aims to answer the question: “Where is Ireland’s public money actually going?” The site aggregates spending data already published by public bodies, with the end goal of providing a complete index of every line…
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The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has issued an urgent appeal for blood donors across Ireland. Media Credits: The Irish Blood Transfusion Service/ Pexels.com The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) has made an urgent appeal for blood donors, as Ireland’s blood supply faces a shortage. Caitlin Weich, Marketing Executive at IBTS noted that there is currently…
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