Amidst the concern of deaths, heading to being the worst in Europe, the joy of Boris and the pride of now, Colonel, Tom, the Stormont Health Committee met yesterday to re-question the Health Minister and his advisers since they had not performed well last week ( a sort of resit) but this week they were […]
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STORMONT HEALTH COMMITTEE REPORT: Pandemic was ‘unforeseen’ not ‘unforeseeable’, MLA chides health chiefs
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OPINION: Queen’s Prof says more lives can be saved by common, all-island approach
Mike Tomlinson (below) has spent a lifetime speaking truth to power. From the publication of the Obair report in 1988 exposing scandalous economic discrimination against West Belfast to the present day and his efforts to assess the cost in lives being paid by wrongheaded Department of Health handling of the coronavirus, he has been met […]
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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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OPINION – ANDRÉE MURPHY: All-island approach to Covid-19 best way to ensure children share Christmas with grandparents
THOSE of us advocating a unified Ireland know any meaningful discussion involves the Health Service on the island. Discussions on health stem from those living in the north seeing universal, free health care as a plus and will be very up front in not wanting to lose it. It is worth noting that our health […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: Pandemic underlines need for Government for Change in Dublin
Notwithstanding the primacy and priority that the pandemic deserves, not least because of the deaths and distress it is causing, I want to return to the need for a Government for Change in Dublin. In fact the pandemic and the recovery from it requires such a government. In the days before the February general election […]
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