'A lot of fighting' among U2 band members about making PPE donation public
The group donated €10 million for the sourcing and purchase of personal protective equipment for frontline workers in April.
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The group donated €10 million for the sourcing and purchase of personal protective equipment for frontline workers in April.
Questions were raised about the deal in the Dáil today
The Department of Education has told schools that they will be provided with funding to obtain new supplies.
Dublin, Galway and Limerick city centres all lost their ‘clean’ status, according to a new survey.
That’s according to a survey conducted by trade union Fórsa.
“PPE is an effective barrier to large droplets but may be less effective for small ones,” an academic surgeon said.
The grant of €100 per applicant is available from Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.
Part one of Noteworthy’s in-depth investigation shows that many carers took a pay hit and felt unsupported during the Covid-19 crisis.
Over 85 million pieces of PPE were delivered in the last three months.
One industry source claimed salons will spend thousands on PPE every week.
Guidelines for schools are currently being drafted.
The DUP’s Paul Frew has asked that two email threads are released to see why a promise for PPE was made, but was never delivered.
A new study by The Lancet has analysed various measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
The CCPC has warned against claims that these items protect the wearer from Covid-19.
Hundreds of pages of correspondence between Nursing Homes Ireland and the Department of Health were released yesterday.
A series of correspondence between NHI and the Department of Health has been published today.
Some 120 million masks will arrive in Ireland from South Korea in the coming weeks.
The not for profit will use funds raised to manufacture masks approved for use in the NHS.
Mick Reilly works in the school of engineering at Trinity College Dublin and he and his sons have been producing the PPE at home.
The shipment includes tens of thousands of masks and aprons and a large volume of hand sanitiser.
HSE boss Paul Reid says the behaviour of some countries is akin to “modern-day piracy”.
A report in the Sunday Times claims the prime minister missed five meetings of the key Cobra committee in the run-up to the outbreak.
More than 20 NHS staff are believed to have died from Covid-19.
The World Health Organization previously said it could take 12 to 18 months for a vaccine to be developed.
Much of the equipment which arrived in from China has been deemed unsuitable for use.
People Before Profit TD Brid Smith says we need to consider moving beyond the restricted ‘market’ in this time of crisis.
The HSE also said it wants to increase testing to 4,500 people a day next week.
The Irish government has spent over €200 million on PPE from countries such as China.
I left nursing years ago and now I feel I have a duty to return, but the odds are against us, writes Deirdre Mullins.
This is the first delivery flight of the HSE’s €208 million order of PPE from China.
In a marathon Dáil debate, politicians are having their say on emergency legislation.
A consignment of equipment such as masks, gowns and goggles is due to arrive from China on Sunday.
Beauticians, hair dressers, construction workers and the food and pharma industries were singled out.