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Inside Singapore General Hospital (Simon Roughneen)
DUBLIN A “crucial new piece of information” discovered by University of Cambridge-led researchers could mark a “vital step” towards understanding Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating neurological disorder.
A paper published on Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications outlined what the university says is “compelling new evidence” about a “key protein” that affects neurons in the human brain.
Giuliana Fusco, research fellow at the university’s St John’s College, said that “if we want to cure Parkinson’s, first we need to understand the function of alpha-synuclein, a protein present in everyone’s brains.”
DUBLIN Global trade shrank by 9 per cent in 2020 despite a late-year revival led by East Asia, according to estimates published on Wednesday by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The recovery was "uneven," with 8-per-cent fourth quarter growth in global merchandise or goods trade but stagnation in services, UNCTAD said. While international commerce was "greatly affected" by "economic and social disruptions brought about by Covid-19," East Asia registered "gains in global market share" after being able to "better weather the challenges of the pandemic," according to the UN trade body.
The first Mass to be celebrated at Knock after the end of Ireland’s second coronavirus-related lockdown. Up to 200 people were permitted to attend the service, which was held inside Knock’s 3,700-seat basilica at 12pm on December 2 2020 (Simon Roughneen)
KNOCK On December 2, almost two months to the day since his parishioners were last permitted to attend Mass, Father Richard Gibbons’ greeting to his returning worshippers was blend of relief and contained elation.
“Good afternoon to you all and welcome back to Mass,” said Gibbons, parish priest in Knock, a village in the west of Ireland and Marian pilgrimage site visited by Pope Francis in 2018.
DUBLIN Ireland's third lockdown has seen unemployment jump to 25 per cent in January, a 5.6 percentage point increase on December's revised 19.4 per cent. The government's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Wednesday that "the Covid-19 crisis has continued to have a significant impact on the labour market in Ireland." A second pandemic-related lockdown ended in early December after six weeks, only for a third national lockdown to be enforced at the end of the month after virus case numbers rose again. Businesses that reopened during the brief inter-lockdown period, such as restaurants, were compelled to close again.