Sunday April 12, 2020

Makhlouf warns of severe shock to economy from Covid fallout

The Central Bank governor also said he expected insurance companies to give claimants the benefit of the doubt

FF and FG offer new policies to lure smaller parties into coalition

Framework document includes promises of a bigger cut in emissions, a living wage and a substantially larger health budget

China and the politics of generosity

The Asian superpower has stepped up to the plate in helping other countries to get Covid-19 under control. But many observers wonder if it is simply playing the long game in a far-reaching propaganda campaign to strengthen its position on the world stage

Top doctors urge state to issue a clear roadmap out of Covid-19 crisis

Growing confidence amid ‘stabilisation’ in number of new cases. Pressure now on HSE to ramp up testing as 14,500 people await results

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Coronavirus
Barry J Whyte | 9 hours ago

EU’s north-south divide rears its ugly head again as coronabonds are killed off

Hardline opposition to EU solidarity in funding the cost of Covid-19 is driven by German allergy to ‘imprudent’ spending, and by Dutch politicians fearing the transfer of funds to southern countries would provoke a far-right backlash

Coronavirus
Marion McKeone | 9 hours ago

New York’s mass graves overflow as Covid-19 crisis deepens

The coronavirus outbreak has caused a huge spike in the number of deaths in New York, with the city’s morgues struggling to cope

Front and centre: the workers keeping Ireland going

While many of us are staying at home, eating and drinking too much and watching TV, many essential workers are still out there doing their best to keep us safe. We met some of those on the frontline

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Daniel Murray is joined by Codema CEO Donna Gartland for the latest episode of Five Degrees of Change, the energy and environmental podcast from the Business Post

Coronavirus

While many of us are staying at home, eating and drinking too much and watching TV, many essential workers are still out there doing their best to keep us safe. We met some of those on the frontline

Elaine Prendeville | 12th April, 2020

What were the very last public arts activities you took part in before the Covid-19 restrictions kicked in – and did they bring you satisfaction? We ask Business Post arts writers about their last times before quarantine, and whether they were everything they’d hoped

Keen to support Irish food producers while maintaining physical distance? In the first of a two-part series, we report on some of the restaurants, cafés, meat and poultry vendors and craft beer brewers offering delivery and collection services

follows a group of Anzac soldiers going into battle in Vietnam

‘Staying in’ has taken on a whole new meaning in the world of online sex. In the midst of a global pandemic, domestic sexual role-play is in greater demand, and audio eroticism is having a moment. But who does this industry of escapism benefit? And who, if anyone, does it harm?

Columnists

The social network’s new app has only a short window of opportunity to make its mark in the EU

Emmet Ryan | 12th April, 2020

Irish education platform expands to New South Wales and Victoria as the regions have similar education systems to Ireland

The videoconferencing platform saw its user base increase by a staggering 250 million people on one day alone last month

From patient-assessing bots to using data to track symptoms, software developers and start-ups are building tools to take on the current crisis

With so many workers now listening to music while working from home, three sets of state-of-the-art earbuds are reviewed this week