Jan Rynneâs teenage children havenât returned to school since it reopened last September.
Given her diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia â a form of blood cancer â she says medical experts have advised her that she canât take the risk of Covid-19 entering the home.
âMy children are the victims of my disease, and they are forced to cocoon with me,â she says. âIâm heartbroken that they canât go to school.â
Her son is in first year and hasnât set foot in secondary school yet; her daughter is in third year and is not entitled to online tuition.
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370,000 medically vulnerable patients face anxious wait to hear if they’ll be given priority in vaccine rollout
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23 Feb 2021, 7:30
SOME 370,000 medically vulnerable patients face an anxious wait to hear if they will be given priority in the vaccine rollout.
Currently, people aged 18 to 64 with certain medical conditions are the seventh group on the vaccine allocation list.
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The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly is to deliver a memo to Cabinet today after getting updated advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee.
It’s expected that those with health issues such as cancer, diabetes, heart, kidney, neurological and respiratory diseases will be listed as the next priority group after the over 70s have been vaccinated.
Digital divide: How Covid-19 is deepening inequality in education A two-tier system is emerging with affluent schools more likely to have better learning platforms
Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 00:00 Updated: Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 11:00 Peter McGuire
Laura McCarthy at her home in Ballivor, Co Meath, with her family James, Robyn and Peter and dog, Chad. Photograph: Alan Betson
Fee-paying schools are more likely to have better learning platforms, a recent report highlighted. Photograph: iStock
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The pandemic has slammed school doors shut for the second time in less than a year. In general, teachers and students are better prepared than they were back in March 2020, when schools across the world scrambled to develop remote learning systems.