Paddy McKenna

“We are once again in the mitigation stage of this pandemic.” The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HSPC) has reported 12 additional deaths related to COVID-19, as well as 1,620 new confirmed cases. There is now a total of 91,779 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ireland. There has been a total of 2,237 COVID-19 related deaths […]

6 years ago

“We have an opportunity to take actions that can turn around these patterns of transmission.” Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tony Holohan says that “socialisation that we’ve done over the course of the last number of weeks” has led to the recent increase in Covid-19 cases. Yesterday the Republic of Ireland recorded 13 deaths and […]

6 years ago

We’d have given it to Adam King ourselves but gwan TIME. US President-elect and Vice-President-elect, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been named as TIME magazine’s ‘person of the year’. The shortlist for the prestigious prize also included the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, as well as frontline medical workers, and also a fourth nominee, […]

6 years ago

The future is bright, the future of farming is more precision. Speaking on JOE’s business show, All In, which is backed by AIB,  Aidan Connolly, CEO of Cainthus, who work with farmers to develop the world’s most advanced farming tech, spoke about how farming will could be influenced by the demand for precision nutrition. “What do I […]

6 years ago

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says he believes the EU and the UK are getting close to a Brexit deal but he has lamented the UK’s decision to leave the European Union. Speaking on Ireland Unfiltered, Varadkar said “the European Union is going to be a weaker place without the UK” and said it was up to […]

8 years ago