Clergy reflect on Prince Philip’s visit to Enniskillen Posted: 4:06 pm April 17, 2021
By Jodie Curran
LOCAL clergymen took a moment to reflect on Fermanagh’s royal visit from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip back in 2012 following the Duke of Edinburgh’s death on Friday.
During her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee visit to the north, Dean of Clogher, the Very Rev Kenneth Hall, and Monsignor Peter O’Reilly,welcomed the royal couple to St Michael’s Church and St Macartin’s Cathedral, as crowds congregated on the streets of Enniskillen.
In a joint statement to the Herald, both churchmen paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh and his time in Fermanagh.
New Year s Eve: inside Northern Ireland s Nightingale Hospital in Belfast, there s growing unease among medical professionals who may soon have to decide who lives and who dies.
The frightening reality, says Gardiner, is the current trajectory does not bode well. When I have to make a really difficult decision - if we get to the point if resources won t go far enough - I hear no voice that says, we support you in whatever decision you have to make, ethically or socially . How do we decide which people get a longer time in critical care or who gets it in the first place?
He admits that conundrum keeps him up at night and is not a medical decision but a social, political and economic decision .
Inside this hospital, there s the constant ringing of alarms, the noise of the ventilators that are keeping patients alive and the arrival of more very sick people.