It is possible that had Robert Watt taken a different path in life, he might have found himself on the other side of ...
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Two-thirds of the public believe Covid lockdowns, including the long-term closure of schools, are continuing to affec...
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For a while it seemed we would not get the public inquiry into how the State handled the Covid-19 pandemic that some ...
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“Look at this,” Stephen Donnelly says excitedly, as he jumps up from the conference table in his corner office at the...
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As teacher Enoch Burke languishes behind bars over his ongoing refusal to honour a court order, he has his family’s u...
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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has suggested mandatory mask-wearing could be reintroduced on public transport and i...
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Tony Holohan will resign as chief medical officer on Friday week after 14 years in the role. “In total demob mode,” i...
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Tony Holohan will resign as chief medical officer on Friday week after 14 years in the role. “In total demob mode,” i...
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Serious tensions between Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, his top civil servant Robert Watt and chief medical office...
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Ronan Glynn has resigned as deputy chief medical officer amid claims from colleagues that pressures facing senior civ...
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December 2, 2021 Cases: 578,064; Deaths: 5,707; Seven-day average of new cases: 4,451
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Stephen Donnelly is at odds with his top civil servant Robert Watt, who is declining to appear before an Oireachtas c...
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Department of Health secretary general Robert Watt has said it is not “reasonable” for him to attend more than one Oi...
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Outgoing chief medical officer Tony Holohan told the State’s top civil servant he was seeking a secondment from the c...
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Last Wednesday morning Stephen Donnelly said he fully supported Tony Holohan’s move to an academic post at Trinity Co...
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Chief medical officer Tony Holohan will quit the public service entirely this summer after the Taoiseach paused the m...
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Tony Holohan has said he has no intention of returning to his role as chief medical officer and that his secondment t...
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Dr Holohan has revealed that his “fingerprints” were all over the creation of this new €187,000 Trinity appointment a...
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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and outgoing chief medical officer Tony Holohan are at odds over a new Covid-19 advi...
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Tony Holohan’s announcement on Friday that he intends to step down as chief medical officer in the summer to take up ...
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DR TONY Holohan is to step down from his position as chief medical officer, it has been confirmed today.
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On Monday, January 27, 2020, a National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) was established and met for the first ti...
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Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan told Nphet colleagues the emergency phase of the Covid-19 pandemic was largely ...
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Unions representing workers in retail and public transport have urged caution over the ending of mandatory mask rules.
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On the night of November 25 last year Health Minister Stephen Donnelly left his office in the Department of Health af...
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PUBS and restaurants are likely to be allowed to return to normal opening hours from tomorrow night, the Irish Indepe...
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In the coming days more records will likely be set in Ireland’s long war with Covid.
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The health service is coming under enormous pressure as Ireland recorded its highest every daily number of Covid-19 i...
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Ten days ago, a senior figure centrally involved in the Covid-19 response told the Sunday Independent that relations ...
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Deputy chief medical officer Dr Ronan Glynn today said that public health officials “never said schools are safe”, ho...
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The chief medical officer (CMO) Dr Tony Holohan is not expecting to recommend additional restrictions after the Natio...
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An organ transplant operation at the Mater hospital in Dublin had to be cancelled because of a shortage of ICU beds t...
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This weekend, no one in the Government or on Nphet has any clear idea what is going to happen over the next few weeks...
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Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan is advising the public “to stay at home as much as possible” warning up to 400,...
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Ireland has more Covid-19 cases per population than some countries with a very low vaccination rates a Nphet member h...
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Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has ruled out reimposing public health restrictions solely on the basis of rising case numbers.
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TÁNAISTE Leo Varadkar has ruled out reimposing public health restrictions solely on the basis of rising case numbers.
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A further 2,855 Covid-19 infections were confirmed by the Department of Health today.
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Up to 20pc of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last few days are fully vaccinated.
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