County Antrim-Based Soldiers Deploy To Afghanistan Despite Pandemic
May 17, 2020 No Responses

County Antrim-Based Soldiers Deploy To Afghanistan Despite Pandemic

The Co Antrim-based 2 Rifles are deploying to Kabul as scheduled, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Several hundred soldiers are in the process of moving out in staggered stages to the Afghan capital, once they have completed two weeks of quarantine....
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Senior Doctors Call For More Hospital Beds To Clear Treatment Backlog
May 16, 2020 No Responses

Senior Doctors Call For More Hospital Beds To Clear Treatment Backlog

Senior doctors have called for an urgent increase in hospital beds to help clear the treatment backlog caused by coronavirus. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) said plans set out two years ago to boost capacity needed to be implemented...
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Government Advisory Body To Consider Measures To Ease Lockdown Burden On Children
May 15, 2020 No Responses

Government Advisory Body To Consider Measures To Ease Lockdown Burden On Children

Additional measures to ease the lockdown burden on children are to be considered by the Government’s expert advisers on coronavirus. Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan acknowledged young people had experienced a particularly difficult and challenging time...
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Hardware Stores In Ireland Can Reopen From Monday
May 15, 2020 No Responses

Hardware Stores In Ireland Can Reopen From Monday

Hardware shops with homeware sections can open on Monday, but homeware outlets cannot, the Business Minister has said. Phase one of the lifting of restrictions permits the reopening of hardware stores, garden centers, farmers’ markets, bicycle shops and moto...
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Apprentice Boys Parade In Derry Cancelled Due To Coronavirus
May 15, 2020 No Responses

Apprentice Boys Parade In Derry Cancelled Due To Coronavirus

The Apprentice Boys parade in Derry in August has been cancelled due to Covid-19. Organizers of the annual loyal order demonstration expressed “great disappointment” but said they had a duty to protect health and well being. Senior members were instead...
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Citizenship Campaigner Welcomes Decision To Allow People In North To Be Considered EU Citizens
May 14, 2020 No Responses

Citizenship Campaigner Welcomes Decision To Allow People In North To Be Considered EU Citizens

A citizenship campaigner has welcomed a move to allow people in Northern Ireland to be treated as European citizens under immigration laws. Emma DeSouza has been involved in a long legal battle with Britain’s Home Office over whether being born...
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Stormont Announces ‘Baby Steps’ To Ease Lockdown
May 14, 2020 No Responses

Stormont Announces ‘Baby Steps’ To Ease Lockdown

Stormont’s leaders have announced some minor relaxations of Northern Ireland’s coronavirus lockdown measures. Garden centers and household recycling centers will be able to reopen on Monday. Marriage ceremonies involving someone who is suffering from a ter...
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Martin Calls For Review Of Government Deal With Private Hospitals
May 14, 2020 No Responses

Martin Calls For Review Of Government Deal With Private Hospitals

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said the Government deal with private hospitals has to be reviewed because millions of euro are being spent on capacity that is not being used. Private hospitals became part of the public health system...
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Irish Government To Issue Guidance About Face Masks This Week
May 13, 2020 No Responses

Irish Government To Issue Guidance About Face Masks This Week

The Government will issue guidance in the next few days about making and wearing face coverings to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It comes as chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said on Tuesday that there is no plan to...
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Foster Hopeful That Lockdowns Will Be Fully Removed By December
May 13, 2020 No Responses

Foster Hopeful That Lockdowns Will Be Fully Removed By December

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster said she hopes to be “long past” the final step of the Executive’s plan for easing lockdown by December. Frustration was expressed by some in the Northern Ireland business community when the five-step pla...
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