Belated moves by the Department of Health to shore up care homes which are proving the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic have been branded as an attempt to cover up for “procrastination and ineptitude”. “The care homes have become the killing fields of this pandemic in Northern Ireland,” said clinical epidemiologist Dr Michael Donnelly. “Yet […]
Archive | April, 2020
Department of Health acts at last on care homes “but horses have bolted”
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LIVE IN CONCERT: From their Ligoniel living room to your lockdown home: Summer Fly live tonight 7pm
Ligoniel trio Summer Fly will launch the first BelfastMedia.com quarantine concert tonight (Sunday) at 7pm when they perform live from their living room to yours. Joey McGuigan and Karen Richardson with daughter Laura McGuigan are favourites with club and pub-goers across Belfast but once the coronavirus crisis restrictions were introduced they had to cancel all […]
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VIDEO & PHOTO REPORT: As Milltown reopens its gates, Fr Pat brings Blessed Scrament to lockdown homes
Milltown Cemetery welcomed its first visitors in a month today as the prohibition on visiting cemeteries, introduced by the Stormont Executive, was lifted. Diocesan authorities said the cemetery would open on Sundays from 10am-5pm and from 2pm-4pm on weekdays and Saturday but that the situation would be kept under review. Funerals will still be restricted […]
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Marathon effort by Gaelscoil pupils for Belfast Health Trust
Rang 4 (Primary 4) pupils from Gaelscoil Éanna have raised over £2,000 after running a collective marathon in aid of Belfast Trust. While adhering to social distancing and lockdown rules, a class of 27 kids took their back gardens or local park on Thursday when they each ran a mile to help the local Trust […]
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OPINION – JUDE COLLINS: Ireland will have to work as one to get out of this death-pit
I WAS talking to a former journalist the other day (of course it was a virtual conversation, Virginia) and he said he’d been out for a short walk, in the course of which a man had passed him, rolled his eyes and asked, “Don’t you miss Brexit?” You could see the man’s point. There was […]
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TUAIRIM: An Ghaeilge ar lár le Linn ‘biggest push’ an Beeb
Cliceáil an nasc thuas le héisteacht le Gráinne ag léamh an allt seo. Chuir an BBC tús le Bitesize Daily an tseachtain seo, seirbhís a dhíríonn ar scolaíocht bhaile daltaí de gach aois. Dar leis an eagras féin, is é seo an “biggest push” riamh sa stair acu ó thaobh cúrsaí oideachais de. Mairfidh Bitesize […]
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