Period poverty: Scotland first in world to make period products free

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products free for all. There is now a legal duty on local authorities to provide ...

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Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation

Irish Standard Time — Friday, July 20, 2012

Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation : Earlier this week, the president of the Irish Association of Suicidology (IAS), Fine Gael TD Dan Neville, described the just-released suicide figures for 2011 as “frightening but not surprising” given the impact the economy was having on mental health ...

Boris Johnson's Northern Ireland plan: dubious and counter-productive

Irish Standard Time — Thursday, June 16, 2022

But his decision to breach international law — proposing legislation to gut the Northern Ireland protocol of the UK's post-Brexit treaty with the ... View article...

Ireland : our Highlights of the week

Irish Standard Time — Saturday, February 09, 2019

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Irish Standard Time — Monday, December 17, 2018

The EU is not for turning on Brexit as Westminster sinks into cataclysm' - For many firms, exports to the UK - the world's sixth largest economy - is a vital lifeline. No wonder, from an Irish perspective, there was a gnawing fear ...

Brexit hasn't gone away, you know

Irish Standard Time — Friday, May 24, 2019

Brexit hasn't gone away, you know - If Brexit goes badly, that will all come to a shuddering halt ... The nightmare that a hard Brexit would create for Ireland had been avoided and we could ...

Public's attitude to depression needs to change

Irish Standard Time — Thursday, October 11, 2012

Public's attitude to depression needs to change : ... colleagues that they suffered from depression? Thankfully, David Walliams did not manage to take his own life, but many people do: there were 552 deaths by suicide in Ireland in 2009. How high must suicide figures go before depression is destigmatised?

Outgoing German ambassador optimistic Ireland will join global tax deal

Irish Standard Time — Tuesday, July 20, 2021

In the post-Brexit era, ambassador Deike Potzel said that Irish-German political and trade relations are at an all-time high, building on Ireland's ... View article...

Sean FitzPatrick sits among addicts and shoplifters as he faces 16 charges

Irish Standard Time — Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Sean FitzPatrick sits among addicts and shoplifters as he faces 16 charges But yesterday, Sean FitzPatrick sat in the dock of court number one at Dublin District Court, surrounded by drug addicts, shoplifters and other defendants -- an unlikely dapper figure among them in his navy blazer with brass buttons. The former Anglo ...

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