Opinion: Renters should not be left with a debt burden after Covid-19, writes Eoin Ó Broin

LATE ON TUESDAY evening, the Government published the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020. Included in the Bill’s 31...

Eoin Ó Broin

100 yesterday

A 'virtual birthday' and an over-walked dog: One Irish mammy's experience of Covid-19 distancing

WE’VE HAD A very busy few weeks here at Casa Magnier. The first week of this isolation business I wasn’t working so we had all day, every day...

Amanda Magnier

3 yesterday

Opinion: We need a national unity government immediately to battle Covid-19

JUST OVER TWO months ago on 20 January, I got a call from a friend. “What do you think about this coronavirus story? It seems to be quite an issue...

Ciarán Cuffe -

30 previous day

Opinion: This current crisis is calling for the emergence of a bolder, braver and kinder humanity

IT’S NOT EASY being hopeful hope when it seems like the world is falling apart around you. Right now, so many of us are losing jobs and...

Ruairí Mckiernan -

100 previous day

Wellness Wednesday: 'Keep it simple' during this Covid-19 isolation, says a psychotherapist

It’s a difficult time for everyone, with the Covid-19 outbreak bringing severe and unexpected changes to our lives, along with new concepts like...

Siobhan Murray

70 wednesday

Homeschooling: Two experienced practitioners and two 'struggling to adjust' parents give their advice

THOUSANDS OF PARENTS around the country are grappling with a new reality. Not only are they parenting through the current changes, but they are now...

Laura Byrne -

30 wednesday

Opinion: The virus may rapidly spread to countries that lack even the most basic resources to fight it

WE ARE LIVING through an unprecedented crisis. The entire world – from Los Angeles to Dublin to Manila – is facing a pandemic the scale of which...

Caoimhe De Barra -

3 wednesday

Opinion: 'We are in the midst of the worst crisis since World War II'. An Irishman in Italy on the Covid-19 nightmare

THIS, WITHOUT DOUBT, was the longest, most difficult weekend I’ve lived through in almost 30 years in Italy, having come here from Dublin. On...

John Mccourt -

200 24.03.2020

Opinion: If you're in business, you need to get ahead of this Covid-19 crisis

“IT WILL BE like nothing in our living memory” was the initial dire warning delivered last week by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the Government’s...

Jason Osullivan -

7 24.03.2020

Opinion: We survived lockdown in China, you too can get through this Covid-19 crisis

HELLO AGAIN FROM a chirpier China, where things have levelled off considerably. I have been asked to write this new piece for TheJournal.ie, but...

Greg Mcdonough

2 23.03.2020

Opinion: Demonising the young, the old or anyone else in society will not help us battle Covid-19

IT IS JUST over a week now since creches, schools and colleges closed and many of us were told to work from home, to stay indoors and away from...

Ian Power -

60 23.03.2020

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