The new €250m Restart Grant provides direct grant aid to micro and small businesses to help with the costs associated with reopening and reemploying workers following COVID-19 closures. Your guide to the Restart Grant How to apply The application form for the Restart Grant is available on your local authority website. The grant is the equivalent to the rates bill of your
COPE Galway is a local Galway organisation whose vision is an“Improved Quality of Life in a Home of your Own” for people affected by homelessness, women and children experiencing domestic abuse, and older people. In 2019, COPE Galway worked with 2,984 vulnerable people in Galway. This is a 20% increase on the numbers supported the
"Human rights abuses and corruption in countries with poor legal and judicial systems often go unpunished but that shouldn't result in the perpetrators not facing sanctions by the European Union," said Fianna Fáil MEP, Billy Kelleher. "The EU cannot force 3rd countries to prosecute human rights abuses, but if we can get agreement on an EU-wide
Join me on Wednesday evening at 7pm as Duncan Smith TD, Wayne Stanley of Simon Communities of Ireland and Dr Mary Murphy of Maynooth University discuss how Covid-19 will impact on our housing crisis.Our chat will be live on the Labour Party Facebook page from 7pm and you’d be very welcome to join us and to
Welcome to The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin where we bring you a flavour of the work and campaigns that we have been engaged in over the past week. The Weekly Digest from Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald pays tribute to 'great republican' Bobby Storey Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald TD has expressed deep sadness at the death of
We invite you to join us on Monday 29 June for the virtual launch of our 2019 Annual Report.In 2019, COPE Galway worked with 1,622 individuals and families affected by homelessness. Our Domestic Abuse Service worked with 638 women and their children, and 724 older people received nutritional and social supports through our Senior Support
Join me on Thursday evening at 7pm with Senator Ivana Bacik, Lorna Fitzpatrick from USI and Sheila Nunan, former General Secretary of the INTO as we discuss how Covid-19 is impacting on our education system and what we can expect when schools and colleges hopefully reopen in September. Our chat will be live on the
President and Sabina Higgins have on every Bloomsday, 16 June, celebrated James Joyce, his work, particularly ‘Ulysses’, and all creative work and artists. The circumstances this year provided a challenge, but Bloomsday 2020 will be celebrated, a little differently perhaps, but for a reason that has never been more important: the need to acknowledge the contribution
Hello again.Constructive dismissal is where the employee quits the job due to the unreasonable conduct of the employer.So if you as employer don't fire your employee, you would be mistaken thinking that you can't lose an unfair dismissal case. It will just have a slightly different "name"-constructive dismissal.Anyway, the WRC and Courts will apply 2 tests
Labour opposes the Government cuts to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment. These cuts are unfair, particularly for seasonal workers and students, and for part-time workers, many of whom are women. So many people rely on full-time work and overtime over the summer to meet their living costs for the rest of the year, but they are being
