OPINION: The government will get one chance – and one chance only – to get it right when it reopens the schools after the Covid-19 lockdown but, writes Kerry Sinn Fein TD Pa Daly, the approach being taken is impractical and if it fails, it will rest heavily on our children’s shoulders for a long… Continue Reading
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Childminding is a model of care, not education
OPINION: Childminding will not “fit” into the Department of Education and Children and young adults deserve, at the very least, a department dedicated to looking after their needs and their futures, writes Childminding Mairéad Hurley, Head of Childminding Services with Childminding Ireland WE in Childminding Ireland have written to the three party leaders, Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and… Continue Reading
Kerry tourism deserves a few weeks of business
OPINION: Hotels and pubs should be allowed to open on the same day as restaurants and cafés, on June 29, if anything is to be salvaged for the tourism industry from the debris of the coronavirus pandemic, says Independent Kerry TD, Danny Healy-Rae TODAY we hear travel agents and airlines advertising that Spain will be… Continue Reading
Reflections on rich traditions for the arrival of May
Mayor of Killarney, Cllr Michael Gleeson, draws inspiration from years gone by and rich traditions as he warmly embraces the arrival of the month of May I HAVE just watched our kindly neighbours’ cows dash headlong for the shelter of trees and bushes that populate and decorate the western ditch. They had good reason to… Continue Reading
How we proceed now really is a matter of life or death
OPINION COMMON sense, we can only but hope, will prevail as this May Day progresses and the authorities decide whether or not to ease some of the coronavirus restrictions. The early indication from the Taoiseach, that the rate of deaths and new cases of Covid-19 are not yet sufficiently low enough to significantly loosen limits,… Continue Reading
