NI Special school pupils and teachers to be tested weekly for coronavirus
The programme will start at the beginning of February
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Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told a Fianna Fáil group last night that work needs to be done now with a view to a unity poll in the future.
Mr Ahern was speaking to Cosmhuintir Fianna Fáil, a grassroots organisation within the party, about the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland via Zoom.
The meeting mainly focused on Northern Ireland and Mr Ahern said that politicians should find agreement on the smallest issues and build from there.
Mr Ahern said there was sometimes too much focus on short-term issues and not enough medium-term or long-term focus.
Mr Ahern also said that a unity referendum might take place at the end of the decade and that work needed to be done in relation to it now.
New weekly Covid tests being introduced for pupils and staff at special schools in Derry
Measures brought in to provide increased protection from the virus
Details of the new tests were announced today by Health Minister Robin Swann.
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A programme of weekly testing of pupils and staff is to be introduced in special schools in Northern Ireland at the start of February.
The initiative is being led by the Public Health Agency working together with range of delivery partners, including the Education Authority and Queens University Belfast.
The programme is jointly sponsored by the Departments of Health and Education and is subject to business case approval.
Choline plus lutein & zeaxanthin linked to better cognitive flexibility: Study Higher combined intake of choline and lutein plus zeaxanthin is associated with faster performance on a cognitive flexibility task in overweight and obese adults, says a new study that adds to a growing body of science supporting the brain health benefits of these compounds.
Data from 80 middle-aged overweight and obese adults indicated that the faster reaction times in the cognitive tests were associated with greater intake of lutein/zeaxanthin and choline
“interactively, but not independently”.
“While both lutein and choline have been independently related to benefits for cognitive control, we did not observe the benefits of individualized consumption in the present study,” wrote researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in
Coronavirus Northern Ireland: 16 further Covid-19 deaths recorded by DoH
101,818 individuals have tested positive since the start of the pandemic, according to the Department
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