Dundalk man Noel Sharkey has released a new collection of poems Testament . Noel wrote his eighth collection of poems Testament between 2016 and 2021 with th.
Two days before Christmas, the owner of a small family nursing home forwarded an email to this newspaper with a document he had been desperately waiting for.
It was a Covid-19 vaccination schedule for nursing homes, listing the dates they could expect residents and staff to be immunised. The start date was January 11, but his nursing home was scheduled for the end of the month. We can t wait four weeks, he said on the phone. We ve managed to keep the virus away from our residents and out of this home all year. We re at the end of our tether here.
Fourteen residents of Blackrock Abbey Nursing Home die from Covid-19 By Simon Doyle The nursing home near Dundalk has confirmed the death toll in a statement.
Blackrock Abbey Nursing Home has confirmed the number of residents who have died from Covid-19 has risen to 14.
It comes as the Irish Times reported the death toll at the nursing home near Dundalk had risen after six residents were originally said to have passed away from the virus.
Management last week confirmed that a number of residents had passed away since the beginning of January, with the outbreak infecting half of all residents.