Hopes are high that better therapies are on the way for the inflammatory bowel conditions affecting at least 40,000 people in Ireland, says Trinity College immunologist Professor Luke O’Neill.
To all concerned, please help us not to be subjected to photos of US president Joe Biden in pubs, breweries or distilleries on his visit here. Alcohol brands get enough free publicity.
To those organising the anti-lockdown gathering in Cork this weekend let me say this: I know how you feel.
We are all fed up with the lockdown and feel like going out into the street and screaming.
But the purpose of the lockdown is to limit the spread of the virus and the more successfully this is done, the sooner the lockdown can be gradually ended.
Now, if a large number of people come together, it will be impossible to maintain social distancing and if some of those present, without realising it, have the virus, they will inevitably spread it to others.