Coronavirus: 761 more cases and 18 further deaths in the State HSE amends vaccine appointments system after hundreds of double-bookings
Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 16:56 Updated: Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 21:51
A further 18 deaths due to and 761 new cases of the virus were reported in the State by the National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) on Wednesday.
There has now been a total of 4,705 Covid-19 related deaths and 236,600 confirmed cases here since the pandemic began.
Eleven of the deaths reported occurred in March while the remaining seven took place in February.
Of Wednesday’s cases 372 are in Dublin, 55 in Meath, 43 in Cork, 40 in Kildare, 38 in Offaly and the remaining 213 cases are spread across 19 other counties.
Gardaà have have sent two handguns found on a Cork building site for ballistics analysis to see whether they may be linked to a number of shootings in the city in recent years.
Investigators believe the two guns, a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, were disturbed by workmen on a construction site at Ballincollie Road near Whites Cross on the cityâs northside.
The workmen had been carrying out some excavation work on a ditch and the guns were discovered on Wednesday evening by some local teenagers who alerted gardaà from Watercourse Road.
The scene was preserved for a technical examination and the weapons have been sent for forensic and ballistics analysis by Garda technical experts in Dublin to see if they were used in any crime.
GAA can still revise Dessie Farrell ban and consider other penalties Indications are that none of the nine players involved in breach will be suspended
Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 17:48 Updated: Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 22:11
Dublin GAA’s dramatic announcement on Thursday evening that they were suspending manager Dessie Farrell for 12 weeks will go a long way to defusing the controversy caused by the county’s breach of Covid regulations in training at the Inisfails’ ground in north Dublin.
It is likely, however, that the association’s management committee will launch an investigation into the affair but indications are that none of the nine players involved will be suspended. Dublin though are probably going to be stripped of home advantage for one of their matches in the coming league season.
Man needing treatment at Central Mental Hospital to remain in prison, court rules Court of Appeal told man is being held at Cloverhill Prison due to lack of hospital beds
Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 17:08 Eoin Reynolds
The Court of Appeal ruled the man would remain in Cloverhill Prison. File photograph: Chris Maddaloni/Collins
A man who needs treatment at the Central Mental Hospital while he awaits trial for an alleged murder will remain in prison until a bed becomes available, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Lawyers for the 26-year-old, who cannot be named by order of the High Court, had argued that his detention in prison was unlawful given that consultant psychiatrist Dr Conor O’Neill has said that the only appropriate place to treat him is at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH).