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Health Minister nationwide ban on supermarket loyalty schemes on alcohol
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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The question of a united Ireland has returned to the centre of political discussion following US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Ireland, where he publicly said that he would like to see the island reunified. During a press conference alongside Taoiseach Michael Martin at Farmleigh House in Dublin on 12 September, Trump said he would “love”…
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Throughout the course of history, violence has been prodominantly showned to divide people, this exhibits demonstrates through conflict, can birth peace and harmony among cultures into becoming a better society. “It’s an important exhibition for people to come because it speaks directly to the world we’re living in today and the Irish experience,” Mary Cremin,…
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one major issue: the cost of living. Students up and down the country have began college over the last few weeks a lot of whom share a common burden about the cost of everyday necessities like food and drink. Students that have to move away from home for college face further challenges paying the high…
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You’re a 20-year-old third-year film student who has decided to walk alone into a TU Dublin DJ Society event on a whim. You don’t know anyone there, and you don’t know what to expect. You hope you might make a friend or two, or that you’ll get some fun nights out of it. What you…
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Photo by Jed Owen on Unsplash With the new carbon tax increase arriving later this year the already anxious farmers look upon the 2026 budget with concern. The Budget 2026 is set to be announced October 6th this year, and the announced carbon tax increase of 7.50 euro per tonne of CO2 has already…
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“Life is an adventure and you need to be an amateur, not a professional” Alasdair Verschoyle is a South African migrant, Irish historian and bookseller whose life has taken him from Cape Town to Kildare, and into the pages of Ireland’s past. A smoky barbecue in a sunny Kildare back garden, paired with some whiskey…
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