COVID-19

Applegreen Provides Free Fuel To Blood Bike Leinster

Applegreen plc has announced that it will support Blood Bike Leinster by providing free fuel to their volunteers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Blood Bike...

Lucky Strike Cigarettes Maker Working On COVID-19 Vaccine Using Tobacco Leaves

British American Tobacco, the maker of Dunhill and Lucky Strike cigarettes, said on Wednesday its U.S. biotech unit was working on a potential vaccine for...

FoodCloud Sees 50% Decrease In Surplus Food Donations Due To Stockpiling

FoodCloud has seen a 50% decrease in surplus food donations from supermarkets as a result of stockpiling and it foresees an unprecedented shift in the need...

Dunnes Agrees To Pay Workers A 10% Covid-19 Pay Increase

Dunnes Stores has agreed that it will pay its workers a 10% Covid-19 premium payment backdated to March 9, 2020. The move will bring the Irish owned com...

Amazon Entices US Warehouse Employees To Grocery Unit With Higher Pay

Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand and a worker shortag...

Dublin Meat Company Donates 1,500 Meals To Frontline Staff

Dublin Meat Company has donated over 1,500 Fit Food Ready Meals free of charge to our frontline staff since the COVID-19 began. The Irish owned and fami...

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar Takes Tour Of Total Produce Distribution Centre

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Heather Humphreys TD, Minister For Business, Enterprise and Innovation paid a visit to Total Produce Swords, one of it...

Guinness Partners With Housing Charity To Set Up Freephone Helpline For Renters

Guinness has partnered with housing charity Threshold to set up a dedicated freephone helpline to support workers in the hospitality sector impacted by the...