Category: Current Affairs
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Steady rise in fuel prices causes stress in Ireland
Amid the rising fuel prices in the country, reporter Shay Galon looks at why the costs have increased this past year.
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“She was on the floor unconscious. It’s an image that will never leave my mind.”
Reporter Jane Byrne looks at the new spiking trends in Ireland and the UK by examining the key part social media has played in bringing awareness to the issue and how it has affected one young woman from Dublin
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TU Dublin’s association with Aramark catering
By Sean Cuttle On 4 June 2020, David Fitzpatrick, condemned all forms of “structural racism and discrimination in the strongest terms” in an email sent to students and staff. Aramark Ireland holds the catering contracts for TU Dublin, and operates a number of…
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Women victims of domestic violence threatened by the lack of accommodations
Fantine Carron reports on why the COVID-19 pandemic has made the issue of domestic violence the worst it has ever been and that organisations are struggling to help the victims.
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Covid-19 abroad: Public health vs economy in Switzerland
Health or wealth: Nina Suter tells Izzy Rowley about the Swiss government’s handling of the pandemic
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Covid-19 abroad: Brazil setting the wrong kind of records amid deadly second wave
A year after its president Jair Bolsonaro wrote Covid-19 off as ‘just a little flu’, Brazil is logging record daily death figures while its healthcare system faces collapse. Maria Lombardini in Rio de Janeiro tells Colm McGuirk about the last year
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Eating out(side)
James Molloy artfully interprets how takeaway culture has changed in Dublin during the pandemic
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Covid-19 abroad: Canada’s response to the coronavirus pandemic
While some provinces have introduced harsh Covid-19 restrictions and curfews, a sense of normality remains for the residents of British Columbia
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Freezebruary boys: South Dublin group embrace the challenge of sea swimming for 28 days in a row for charity
With an increase of sea swimming in Ireland in the past year, David Doyle investigates how gruelling the Freezebury challenge is during these strong weather conditions
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ID service users and workers continue to compromise, awaiting clarity on re-opening
Niamh Alexander looks at how reduced services have affected people with intellectual disabilities, and how these services have adapted to the current situation
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