Silver Rock Foundation helps Golspie pupils with lockdown learning By Caroline McMorran Published: 07:00, 04 February 2021
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A SUTHERLAND primary school has been able to purchase digital devices for lockdown learning thanks to a donation from a locally based charity.
Golspie Primary School has been given sufficient funding by the Silver Rock Foundation (SRF) to enable it to buy 10 digital devices.
Golspie Primary School pupils with the new devices: Olli Mowat, Charlie Smith, Layla McDonald, Emily Christian, Rosie Richardson and Lewis Fraser.
Head teacher Simon Scott said pupils were delighted at the gift.
Sheila Robertson, an 87 year-old woman from Kilkee, has become the first person in Regina House Community Nursing Unit to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
She got the vaccine today at Regina House alongside healthcare workers from the Unit who were also vaccinated.
Sheila stated that “the atmosphere in Regina House this morning was like people had won the lottery, everyone was so happy to be receiving the vaccine”
Patrick Kelly is a HCA working in Regina House Community Nursing Unit and is the first healthcare worker in Regina House to get the COVID vaccine. He said as he received his vaccine: “I feel very privileged to be the first person in Regina House to receive the vaccine. Like everyone else I have been waiting for the vaccine”
It’s being offered to 22 residents and 49 staff there today.
87-year-old Sheila Robertson was the first resident to get the jab this morning and she says she’s grateful.
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The vaccine is scheduled to be administered to residents and staff at Ennistymon Community Hospital, St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ennis and Raheen Hospital, Tuamgraney, on the week starting January 18th.
Residents and staff in Clare’s privately-run nursing homes will also be offered the vaccine in the coming weeks.
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Government Defends COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
7th January 2021
The Government is defending Ireland’s rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.
It follows criticism over the much slower rate of vaccination, when compared to some other countries.
It comes as the first vaccines are administered in a Kilrush nursing home.
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Between 35 to 40 thousand doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be administered in Ireland by the end of this week.
But with Denmark having already vaccinated more than 45 thousand people, there has been some criticism here, that we’re moving at a much slower rate.
Clare’s Fianna Fáil TD, Cathal Crowe is among those to raise concern, calling on his Government colleagues to ramp up delivery of the vaccine.