A local Community Pharmacy has issued an urgent appeal for the return of empty and unused oxygen cylinders in the face of growing numbers of people contracting the coronavirus. Pharmacies across the North are dealing with a shortage of the cylinders which are used by patients with chronic respiratory conditions and in end-of-life care. Michael […]
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As global supply of vital oxygen cylinders dries up, pharmacist calls for return of life-saving equipment
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Belfast Businessman who moved first to defend staff against coronavirus blasts failure to test medical staff as “scandalous”
A Belfast business leader who launched a successful fundraising appeal for supplies for frontline health workers – which has raised almost £100,000 – says the failure to carry out Covid-19 testing of medical staff as they finish shifts is “scandalous”. And Danny Moore, who heads up international tech company Options, also blasts the authorities for […]
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West community champions band together to support vulnerable during Coronavirus Crisis
A West Belfast-based support group has brought together a wide range of local volunteers including healthcare workers, shop employees and teachers to offer practical assistance to a community which has been rocked by the Coronavirus crisis. Teacher Rachel Armstrong and friend Rachael Braniff, founders of the Covid-19 Community Support (West Belfast) Group, have already attracted […]
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OPINION: Andrée Murphy – Women Will Do Politics Differently
When Michelle O’Neill paused in her answers to the Stormont chamber this week, she reflected heartfelt concerns in these days of uncertainty. Jim Allister had asked her about his constituent, a woman of 32 years with a young child, whose treatment for cancer has been upended as the Health Service tries to meet the challenges […]
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Outpouring of support and solidarity for community hero Niall Murphy as he battles Coronavirus
A torrent of goodwill messages will flood in tomorrow (30 March) for leading human rights solicitor and United Ireland campaigner Niall Murphy who is gravely ill after contracting the Coronavirus. Friends of the North Belfast man, who is chair of Naomh Éanna GAA club and a founder of the neighbouring Gaelscoil Éanna, have asked the […]
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SQUINTER’S SIDEWAYS LOOK AT THE WEEK: Is this your car, sir? and other ways to ’embrace the spirit of Northern Ireland’
AS the Covid-19 crisis deepened and Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and certain members of our newly-reconvened Executive decided that a policy of letting eight people out of ten contract the coronavirus was not a good idea after all, it was time for a rethink. Cometh the hour, cometh the woman, and as people watched fearfully […]
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