Category: Featured Stories
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Watch: State of mind in lockdown – the impact of quarantine on those managing mental health disorders
The City’s NewshoundFor many people, living with mental health disorders can be a daily struggle. What happens to those people when a global pandemic hits, and the country must go into lockdown?
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The fragile discussion about changing Japan’s constitution during the Covid-19 pandemic
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie’s Ayumi Miyano spoke with a Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo about the impact of amending Japan’s famously pacifist document.
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Watch: Boxers eager to return to the ring after Covid-19 lockdown
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie spoke to Ireland’s youngest female pro-boxer Katelynn Phelan and her father/trainer Paddy, who are hoping to be back in the ring sooner rather than later.
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Watch: Saudade – A Reflection on Lockdown
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie offers this visual poem, full of the longing and nostalgia we feel for normality. The reflection draws together footage from our journalists’ localities of Dún Laoghaire, Cork City and Newbridge
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Watch: A Great Future? Ireland’s Newspapers 2020 and Beyond
The City’s NewshoundIrish newspapers have a great history, but 2019 was a shock year for the industry. What does the future look like?
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Agency offering short training course to fill nursing home vacancies
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie’s Ruadhan Jones spoke to Tom Lordan, administrator with LHP Skillnet, who is looking to meet some the increased demand for nursing home workers with a three-week induction course for Healthcare Assistants.
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AS IT HAPPENED: Supermarket sweep — watching the shelves empty at the height of viral stockpiling
The City’s NewshoundDuring the month of March, the population went on a €363million panic-buying spree. The shops are much calmer now, but queuing outside supermarkets — with stricter controls on how many customers can enter a store at any one time — has become the…
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Newbridge in pictures: Rural Kildare town adjusting to restrictions during Covid-19
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie’s Kim O’Leary presents a collection of her own photos from her hometown of Newbridge, Co Kildare, where big and small businesses are fighting to adjust to restrictions – cautiously optimistic that their beloved town will one day flourish again.
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‘NaTakallam has been my window to the world’ – The refugee language service ideal for lockdown learning
The City’s NewshoundThe City’s Cameron Weymes spoke to Shadi Khaled, a Syrian refugee whose life was transformed after being hired by a language service
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How will the global pandemic change Japan’s hectic working culture?
The City’s NewshoundTheCity.ie’s Ayumi Miyano spoke with Tokyo-based businessman Sam Kennedy and Yoshihiro Tsuchiya about Japan’s business traditions
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