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A SPECIAL county jersey has been presented to the staff of Greenpark Nursing Home as part of an initiative aimed at acknowledging the work of healthcare workers during the pandemic.
The framed jersey and message were presented by Merit Medical Galway who were the main sponsors of a country-wide initiative ‘Your County, your Colours’ led by former inter-county player and Galway Bay fm GAA commentator Tommy Devane.
Over the past number of months all 32 county GAA boards supplied a county jersey accompanied by a short message of thanks. The jerseys and message were framed and sent to the hospital or care setting of the county’s choice. The chosen location for the Galway jersey was University Hospital Galway.
Updated: 5 Feb 2021, 1:15
TAOISEACH Micheal Martin has said Ireland will be in a different space by the middle of the year.
The Fianna Fail leader said there is hope for the country as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out.
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Non-essential shops remain closedCredit: PA MEDIA
He told RTE s Prime Time: The vaccination programme is rolling out, and it has been effective to date. We’ve achieved our targets in terms of vaccination, that should be acknowledged. We ve basically administered what we have received in. The variant is a problem, and in terms of the variant or the mutation of the virus we have to look differently in terms of how we manage that.
Leo Varadkar denies delay in vaccine rollout led to hundreds of deaths in nursing homes
A total of 1,543 staff and residents in care homes have lost their lives during the pandemic - 369 of those coming in January alone
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A DISGRACE
Family who watched from window as mum died of Covid in nursing home furious Govt did not learn from first wave mistakes
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3 Feb 2021, 8:00
A FAMILY who watched from a window as their mum died from Covid in a nursing home have told of their fury that government failed to learn from the mistakes of the first wave.
Figures provided to the Dail’s Health Committee show 1,543 people have died from Covid in nursing homes since the pandemic began almost half of all Covid deaths in Ireland.
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Roisin ShortallCredit: Twitter
Some 369 people died in nursing homes from the virus in January alone with more than 4,300 positive cases in homes last month.
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