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There were over 100 people in attendance at the event which took place in Millennium Hall at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon.

“In the Middle Ages, the leper was a social text in which corruption was made visible, an emblem of decay. Nothing is more punitive that to give disease a meaning — the meaning being invariably a moralistic one.”— Susan Sontag, writer and philosopher, in her 1977 essay, Illness as Metaphor. ‘Victim cremated in secret…Tourists help spread… Panic on luxury cruiser…Power to detain victims.” These headlines, brimming with moral panic and describing a new health threat first seen in a group of marginalised communities in the US, could so easily be ascribed to Covid-19. They are i...

Nursing home’s festive boost from generous Limerick school Reporter: ');  '); NORTHSIDE school kids, parents and staff have been making sure the spirit of Christmas is truly alive and visible in their community. ​Following a year ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, Gaelscoil Sáirséal at the Shelbourne Road, delivered a mountain of Christmas hampers filled with all sorts of festive treats to the staff members and residents of St Camillus’s Nursing Home, further down the Shelbourne Road. This initiative was the brainchild of teachers Ríona Uí Cheallaigh and Edel Nic Éanaigh from Gael...