400 vulnerable residents of the Lower Ormeau area are contacted everyday by community workers to ensure they are in good health and in fine spirits despite the lengthening lockdown. And Gerard Rice, manager of the Lower Ormeau Residents Action Group says the main hall of the Shaftesbury Recreation Centre – once a hub of sport […]
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OPINION – GERRY ADAMS: We have an all-island strategy for protecting animal health but not human health
THERE is a lot of speculation about when the lockdown caused by the pandemic will end. As a lay person, my own best call is that it will be some time before we should do this. The main factor in any decision to relax confinement measures has to be the health needs of citizens. Without […]
Bawnmore steps up to help needy during Covid-19 crisis
A LOCAL councillor has praised the community effort behind a successful food bank in the Bawnmore area. Five weeks ago, Sinn Féin councillor Taylor McGrann set up the facility at Millgreen Youth Centre to manage a community response to the Covid-19 crisis and help those in most need. Speaking about the operation, Taylor said: “Along […]
Caterpillar workers’ safety fears as Belfast factory reopens
Workers at Caterpillar’s West Belfast factory say they fear for their health and safety after the manufacturing firm reintroduced 170 staff members to the workplace this week. Staff at the company’s Springvale site – which makes axles and transmissions – were furloughed when it temporarily suspended production on April 6. However, as regular shift patterns […]
STORMONT HEALTH COMMITTEE REPORT: Pandemic was ‘unforeseen’ not ‘unforeseeable’, MLA chides health chiefs
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
