Health Minister Stephen Donnelly hints at nice things to come from Cabinet meeting to address isolation and mental health lockdown concerns
The Fianna Fail TD said he had come from a very constructive, very positive talk with Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan and Deputy CMO Ronan Glynn after this evening s NPHET briefing
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People across Ireland – including key decision-makers – tell the story of Thursday 12 March 2020. By TheJournal.ie team Friday 12 Mar 2021, 9:00 AM Mar 12th 2021, 9:00 AM 109,293 Views 49 Comments
NOTE: This article was originally published on 13 June 2020. We’ve moved it back up to our homepage today to mark the first anniversary of the initial 12 March lockdown.
IN THE PRECEDING days Ireland had looked on in mounting horror as the death toll in Italy climbed higher and higher. Travel advice was updated and then updated again as officials scrambled to keep up with the pace of change across Europe.
St Patrick’s Day parades across the country had already been cancelled. The previous night, Wednesday 11 March, the first Irish death from coronavirus was announced. The Taoiseach’s traditional US trip was cut down
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School closures highlight our deeply fragmented education system To meet challenges facing society, we need a coherent, equality-based system
Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 00:00 Colm O Connor
Empty classrooms: “For more than 80 years our education system has been fragmented by history, meaning that it now lacks any sense of agility.” File photograph: iStock
One of the few benefits of the school closures is that it has highlighted several structural problems in our education system. These problems run deeper than fraught industrial disputes and have their origins in the late 1930s, when the new Constitution allocated the Department of Education a role that was second to that of the dioceses and religious orders.
Leaving Cert update expected today as Cabinet meets to discuss schools and hotel quarantine irishmirror.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishmirror.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.