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A Government spokesperson has said the Taoiseach will continue to argue for greater solidarity on vaccines when he meets virtually with European leaders tomorrow.
Call for Ireland to support making vaccine technology openly available Irish organisations’ open letter to Taoiseach says ‘united action’ needed on Covid-19
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:22 Updated: Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 13:25
There “simply is no way” to defeat Covid-19 in Ireland without “united action worldwide”, an open letter to the Taoiseach from a coalition of Irish organisations and charities has said.
The group is requesting Ireland’s support for proposals to allow Covid-19 vaccine technology to be shared openly through an emergency waiver at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The letter was co-ordinated by Oxfam Ireland and signed by Access to Medicine Ireland, ActionAid, Amnesty International Ireland, Comhlámh, Concern, Dóchas, Goal, the Irish Global Health Network, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Oxfam Ireland and Trócaire and references the Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreem
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IFTA-nominated broadcaster, Lorraine Keane, was raised in Rathfarnham, studied broadcasting and journalism in Ballyfermot College and began her media career on AA Roadwatch. She was entertainment news correspondent for TV3 and presenter on Xposé before going freelance in 2009. She is married to musician Peter Devlin and they live with their two teenage daughters in Monkstown,Co Dublin. What’s your earliest memory? My parents’ house parties. I’d sneak out of bed and sit on the top of the stairs listening to the music. If I got caught, my punishment was to entertain the crowd with a song before being marched back up to bed. I loved it.