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LAST UPDATE | 14 May 2020
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #DISCUSSIONS: The National Public Health Emergency Team will meet this morning to discuss the potential easing of Ireland’s Covid-19 restrictions next Monday.
2. #SCRAPPED: Oppositions parties and healthcare unions have criticised the government after a scheme to provide childcare to health workers during the coronavirus crisis was scrapped due to poor uptake by providers.
3. #ABUSE: Garda management has written to the Data Protection Commissioner and social media companies over a number of online videos showing garda members being verbally abused while carrying out their duties at Covid-19 checkpoints.
4. #MENTAL HEALTH: The United Nations has warned that the coronavirus pandemic risks sparking a major mental health crisis across the globe.
5. #STANDOFF: Donald Trump has said calls by the country’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci for a highly cautious lifting of pandemic restrictions are “not acceptable.”
6. #DEEP CONCERNS: Inclusion Ireland has raised concerns over the issues experienced by people with intellectual disabilities and their families under Covid-19.
7. #DISCRIMINATION: A new survey has shown that six in 10 members of the LGBTI+ community in Ireland avoid holding hands with their partner in public.
8. #GOVERNMENT FORMATION: Talks between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party at forming a government are set to continue this morning.
9. #REOPENING: Ikea has announced that it will reopen its two Dublin outlets next week if the government decides to begins phase one of its roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions.
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Fantastic work. Well done.
Well done, looks great
Fantastic , well done to them
Nice to see people caring about where they live, so many people don’t care about where they live and just drop litter
Over 10,000 views. Positive energy news attracts lots of interest as well. Congratulations to this lady and all involved. Looks really excellent.. from further down the Royal Canal in Mullingar where we base our local Park Run – another great volunteer community initiative.
The Royal Canal is only 2-3 miles from where I live, and with warm weekends like we’ve just had, it’s a hive of activity. I drove past it on Saturday, a large canal boat was moving through the locks, and groups of teenagers jumping off the locks. It would have been terrible to have lost the canals.
Great work but are the councils neglecting their duty. Where is our tax going exactly?
@Pat Redmond: The councils can’t do everything. Besides, isn’t that the reason there’s so much litter still, litterlouts believe the
council will pick it up.
These louts are also the ones who destroy our beaches in sunny weather.
@Patrick Agnew: I just wanted to whine to someone
So did the ascetics ….
Love that auld triangle!
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