A WEST Belfast GP has said that testing for the coronavirus needs to be ramped up dramatically to save lives. Dr George O’Neill was speaking after it emerged that around one hundred people per day were being assessed for Covid-19 at Beech Hall in West Belfast. The number of patients being assessed had doubled since […]
Archive | April, 2020
Top GP says testing must be ramped up to save lives
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Estate agent housing frontline health staff
A LOCAL estate agent is helping to house health workers on the frontline battling Covid-19 – for free. House to Home Estate Agents, based on the Antrim Road decided to do their bit during the crisis to reach out to doctors and nurses treating patients with the deadly virus. Catherine McDyre, from the small family-run […]
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‘Fitzy’ open to future Antrim return
FORMER Antrim star Matthew Fitzpatrick admits he’d love to don the county jersey again, but concedes it will be some time before he lines out for the Saffrons. Having secured a move to Irish League title contenders Coleraine at the beginning of 2020, Fitzpatrick’s Gaelic football commitments are on hold for the foreseeable. Prior to […]
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EXCLUSIVE: New deaths stats reveal true scale of crisis as hospitals try to return Covid patients to nursing homes
Figures released this morning show that fully one third of deaths from the coronavirus had gone unreported to the public by the authorities. The new statistics published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), following an outcry from the public over the official policy to exclude care home fatalities from daily death updates, […]
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Tributes pour in for Paddy McIlvenny
TRIBUTES have poured in from across the GAA community for Paddy McIlvenny who died from Covid-19 on Wednesday. The 62-year-old Andersonstown man, known locally as ‘Paddy Mac’ was a former GAA player and administrator, while he was also a former bar manager of Casement Social Club. Paddy began his GAA life with St Teresa’s where […]
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OPINION – Dr Michael Donnelly: Covid-19 Pandemic Is the Grenfell Tower of Public Health
The progress of the pandemic has brought new concerns which has indicated that this is now the Grenfell Tower for public health. We knew the fire had started in China but we did not effectively review our pandemic precautions, we didn’t socially isolate immediately, we let Cheltenham Races go ahead (betting whilst Rome burned) when […]
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