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Revised Living with Covid-19 Plan
Paul Cunningham, Political Correspondent on last night s cabinet sub-committee meeting which met to finalise the Government s plan for living with Covid-19.
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Business anxieties ahead of new Covid-19 plan
Fiachra Ó Cionnaith speaks with people working in sectors that have been hit by restrictions and asks them what they are hoping to hear in today s plan.
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Can children safely return to school?
Dr. Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine Physician at St. James s Hospital in Dublin, discusses the issues that the government will need to factot into its latest Living With Covid plan.
Live news, sports, weather and traffic, presented by Áine Lawlor and Mary Wilson.
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Post-mortem examination to be carried out on body found in car
Paschal Sheehy, Southern Editor, has the latest on a Garda investigation into the discovery of a woman s body in a burning car in north Cork, and a man recovered from a river nearby
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Doneraile community numbed after discovery of woman s body
Frank Roche, Fermoy-based Independent Cllr on Cork County Council, came upon the burning car as he was driving past on his tractor
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People urged to report Covid symptoms immediately
George Lee, Science Correspondent, says that NPHET has warned that the next few weeks will be difficult for all of us and that progress will appear to slow down.
Cillian Sherlock reports on how third level students are coping with remote learning
Listen I think the vast majority of people are compliant. But some are not -McGrath
Michael McGrath, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, responds to Garda and Opposition criticism of the Govt s new Covid-19 restrictions
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Ireland s Covid-19 death toll passes 3,000
Orla Keegan, Head of Education, Research and Bereavement at the Irish Hospice Foundation, on dealing with grief during the Covid pandemic
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Big tech still in legal limbo over policing hate speech
Aengus Cox reports on the debate of freedom of speech online, and the recent tech giants shutdown of social media platform, Parler.
Live news, sports, weather and traffic, presented by Audrey Carville and Mary Wilson.
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Schools back on a phased basis from February - Varadkar
Pat Leahy, Irish Times political editor, discusses the Govt s plans to continue the lockdown until at least 5 March and for significantly increased quarantine rules for people coming into the country.
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145 fewer patients with Covid-19 in hospitals
Fergal Bowers, Health Correspondent, reports on the latest Covid-19 figures and trends as seven more deaths and 1,372 new cases of the virus were reported by the Department of Health yesterday.
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Ireland s ethical approach to the vaccine roll-out
Dr Siobhán O Sullivan, Chief Bioethics Officer with the Department of Health and NPHET member, on the ethical decision-making involved in rolling out Ireland s Covid-19 vaccination programme.
Live news, sports, weather and traffic, presented by Aine Lawlor and Mary Wilson.
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Covid-19: 51 further deaths, 2,608 new cases
George Lee, Science Correspondent, has the latest update on Covid-19 statistics and calls by the Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan to avoid non-essential travel.
Listen Ireland is an island, it can be sealed - McInerney
Prof James McInerney, Head of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham, discusses the destruction caused by the new variants of COVID-19.
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Belmullet has highest Covid-19 rate in Ireland
Dr Illona Duffy, Monaghan-based GP, and Dr Fergal Ruane, Mayo-based GP, on their battle against the high levels of Covid-19 in their respective areas.