Nurses at top maternity hospital have still not received Covid jab but management got theirs
Updated: 20 Jan 2021, 9:10
NURSES at one of the country s top maternity hospitals have still not received their Covid jab - while management got theirs.
Frontline staff at the University Maternity Hospital in Limerick are said to be anxious about the delay.
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Frontline staff at the University Maternity Hospital in Limerick are said to anxious about the delay.Credit: Alamy Live News
The vaccine rollout for those working in the hospital was cancelled last week but management, administration and maintenance staff in their hospital group were given the jab the week before.
Updated: 19 Jan 2021, 21:03
JOE Biden will become President of the United States today as an Irish gaffe from the campaign trail re-emerged.
Biden who has spoken of his pride in his Irish heritage will be inaugurated in Washington DC tomorrow.
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2 Field of flags lights up Washington ahead of Joe Biden s inauguration
But on the eve of his big day, a controversial comment about his Irish heritage on the campaign trail last year was again shared on social media.
Biden told a crowd in Iowa in January last year that: “I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid.”
He made the remark in response to a question at a forum on workers and he was criticised at the time by Trina Vargo, an adviser on Irish relations for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.
Education Minister Norma Foley claims every issue unions had on schools reopening were worked on
Updated: 20 Jan 2021, 10:44
EMBATTLED Education boss Norma Foley has claimed every issue unions had on the partial reopening of schools was worked on.
Minster Foley went on the defensive after plans to get special needs students back in the classroom were scrapped after two unions rejected the proposals.
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Education Minister Norma Foley Credit: PA:Press Association
But the Education Minister hit back and said: I think it s important to reiterate, everything they have put on the table and asked us to work through, we have done.
Updated: 20 Jan 2021, 11:43
PEOPLE living in a small Cork village are being urged to check their EuroMillions tickets after a lucky player won the €500,000 Plus prize.
The lucky slip was sold at Ross’s Centra store in Watergrasshill.
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Shop owner Ken Ross is delighted that his shop sold the winning ticket
The winning EuroMillions Plus numbers for last night s draw were: 02, 09, 15, 23, 46.
Ken Ross has been the owner of the Ross’s Centra store in Watergrasshill for the past 16 years and he said that his first big lottery win was well worth the wait.
He said: “This is some way for one of our customers to beat the January blues.