A County Limerick doctor has been overwhelmed by the amount of support that he has received after he spoke out about abusive calls to his practice about vaccination appointments.
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Search By Live95 News Team Arrivals from 58 counties will be subject to mandatory hotel quarantine from this morning.
Last week 26 high-risk states were added to the list, including Israel and the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
The issue of mandtory hotel qurantine has been the source of deep divisions in the Cabinet...with Health Minister Stephen Donnelly favouring the inclusion of 17 EU countries along with the US on the list.
However that plan was dropped last week. reportedly following pressure from Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney
Mr Coveney expressed concerns it would affect Irish citizens living in EU countries who return for their summer holidays.
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Search By Live95 News Team via Getty Images Delegates at the three teachers union conferences are set to vote on whether to ballot their members for industrial action.
It s after the government changed the vaccine plan last week removing them as a priority category.
Following advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Council, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly revealed a new plan for the vaccine drive against Covid-19 last Tuesday.
After the medically vulnerable are inoculated, vaccine doses are now to be prioritised by age only.
It came as a shock to teachers who had been expecting all school staff to be among the first third of the population to receive a dose.