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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Orders flooding in for Naomi’s artwork dedicated to frontline workers
A Belfast artist has raised over £500 for the health service through a piece of art dedicated to frontline workers. West Belfast woman Naomi McGuinness has told how online requests are flooding in for copies of the piece, which features frontline workers including a cleaner, transport workers, a supermarket worker and medical staff. “It was […]
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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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VIDEO: Google 60-second film salute to Irish frontline health workers and volunteers
A video tribute to Ireland’s health workers and volunteers fighting the Covid-19 pandemic has been created by internet giant Google. And it features two images which will be familiar to our readers — solicitor Niall Murphy raising his fist defiantly as he is wheeled from the Intensive Care Unit at Antrim Area Hospital and the […]
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SPECIAL VIDEO REPORT: Big Seamy sings the praises of the Hills of Hannahstown
One of Belfast’s best known GAA clubs has teamed up with on one of the country’s favourite entertainers to record a video to help lift club spirits during the current lockdown. Popular Belfast singer and musician Seamy McPeake recorded a version of the Goats Don’t Shave hit ‘Hills of Donegal’ but this time changing the […]
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Experts say Minister Swann wrong on claim that testing ‘is not silver bullet’ in Covid-19 fight
A claim by Health Minister Robin Swann that testing is not the key element of the efforts to combat the coronavirus has been contradicted by one of the most eminent epidemiologists in these islands. Yesterday, Minister Swann said in a statement, “Testing is not and should never be regarded as a silver bullet. It does […]
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