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Sligo born journalist Paddy Clancy is back in Sligo University Hospital fighting Covid-19 - the location where he contracted the dreaded virus some weeks ago after being admitted over an ongoing kidney condition.
The Bridge Street native (77) has been telling of his shock and annoyance at catching Covid in a hospital setting.
The journalist who presented RTE Radio s Morning Ireland slot, What It Says In The Papers, for almost three decades spoke candidly about the virus: It kills people like me. It can kill people like me. And I m not ready to go, he told RTE s Primetime last Tuesday night, becoming emotional.
Imagine if you would that you re in the old Wembley Stadium in London and all around you are 100,000 people enjoying a football match or a rock concert.
And as you picture that massive swathe of humanity just consider this horrible thought - that you re looking at the equivalent of the number of people in the UK who have died from coronavirus inside a year.
Looking at those terrifying statistics another way means that you could fill Windsor Park five times over and you wouldn t reach the 100,000 mark.
And the same goes for the Kingspan stadium which also has an 18,000 capacity and the cavernous Croke Park in Dublin only holds 80,000 people.