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Thursday 21 January 2021
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That’s according to an article published in this month’s Irish Medical Journal.
One worker has died from head injuries in the explosion, state media said earlier.
Deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill said this afternoon that the health service is facing into its “toughest week”.
Next time you come for cervical screening your sample will be tested for the HPV virus.
Richard O’Halloran from Foxrock hasn’t seen his family since February 2019.
We have been answering readers’ questions in our Q&A and covering the roll-out extensively on The Explainer Podcast.
It includes busts of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The RSA launched a new online portal in December.
The incident happened at a house in the Gortgonis Road area of Coalisland yesterday.
The HSE has provided an update on the vaccination programme.
Kiernan finished ninth in the 1984 Olympic Marathon, and went on to coach many of Ireland’s top athletes.
Paddy McElhone, 24, died instantly near his home in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone, in 1974.
Nearly 180 flood warnings remained in place across England at midday today.
The latest letter from the Chief Medical Officer also said that ‘optimistic’ projections show between 800 and 1,600 cases per day at the end of January.
‘They didn’t come in Covid positive, they picked up Covid while in the hospital,’ said Leo Varadkar.
Gardaí also seized almost €4,000 in cash, a weighing scales and mixing agent.
Organisers Michael and Emily Eavis said they were “so sorry” to have to cancel the event.
The woman told the court she “might be dead or in a vegetative state” if doctors and gardaí had not intervened.
She is in a serious condition.
They want an independent team of detectives to search for leads for fresh prosecutions and other measures to recover information.
The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator was awarded the European of the Year award by EM Ireland today.
The apartment owner was allegedly stabbed in the leg during the burglary.
Senator Rónán Mullen said the money could be collected in addition to Church and State contributions to a redress scheme.
Carers and dentists are to be added to cohort 2 in the vaccine plan.
The midfielder won eight All-Irelands in a decade of glory with the Dubs.
The Oireachtas Golf Society guests are said to have been split into two separate groups to keep under the 50-person limit.
Lebanon has been logging some 5,500 cases a day since the start of the year.
Boris Johnson said ‘the light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccinations out’.
It is a cold and frosty morning in many parts of the country.
The Argentinian footballer was killed when the plane he was travelling in crashed north of Guernsey in 2019.
The Leinster man has been named the Guinness Rugby Writers of Ireland Men’s Player of the Year.
New research has suggested that people who test negative after seven days of quarantine are unlikely to be infectious.
405,400 people have died from the disease, more than the 405,399 total US combat and non-combat deaths in WWII.
The Sinn Féin TD says we have to set aside our obsession with the charitable model and instead fund preventative services and new homes.
Schools for children with special educational needs were due to re-open today.
RGDATA is asking for frontline retail staff to be vaccinated quicker.
Legislation underpinning the Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme was enacted in June 2019.
Debate about the safety of schools in relation to Covid-19 is ongoing.
A NATIONAL VOLUNTARY collection for survivors of mother and baby homes has been suggested by independent senator Rónán Mullen.
The government is drawing up a redress scheme for survivors on foot of the publication of the final report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation last week.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that religious organisations should “make a contribution” towards this scheme.
Speaking in the Seanad yesterday, Mullen said the country should consider “whether it would be appropriate to have some kind of national voluntary contribution as part of a redress package to reflect the social and community dimension to this story, along with Church and State contributions”.
“We are all connected with families who are in some way a part of this story,” he added.
We want to know: Should a ‘national voluntary collection’ be set up for survivors of mother and baby homes?
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