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A GP SURGERY where staff had been due to administer over 100 Covid-19 vaccines this weekend has been destroyed in a fire.
Several units of the fire brigade attended the scene in Ballygar this morning.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne, local GP Dr Martin Daly described the incident as “very upsetting”.
He also said that arrangements were being put in place to use the facilities at a nearby nursing home to get back up and running.
“It appears the fire started around 7.25am and took hold of the building fairly rapidly,” Dr Daly said.
“The front building of the premises has been completely destroyed. The back part of the building has extensive smoke damage so we are really out of practice this morning and scrambling to try and get our services up and running.”
The GP said that there was no suggestion yet as to what caused the fire, but said it may have been accidental.
Dr Daly said that patients have been discommoded as a result of the fire, but the kind offer to use a closed nursing home meant they would aim to set up their services there with “immediate effect”.
“The challenge will be to get our IT systems in operation, but we’re hoping to resume service as quickly as we can,” he said. “We are receiving Covid vaccines on Thursday and had intended to give 104 of our over-85 patients that vaccine on Saturday.
We intend to go ahead with that because we think it’s critically important… It is a relatively modern building and there should be no problem. So we’re working on that at the moment, and we still intend and hopefully we’ll be able to give those vaccines to our patients on Saturday.
Dr Daly added that much of the equipment on site was damaged in the fire, but that its IT infrastructure was all backed up.
“No one was injured, and we will get up and running again,” he added. “But it is very upsetting.”
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“In fact, the moons size doesn’t change at all”….I can’t believe it.
It’s still made of soft cheese though…….right??
And there is some bloke living in it.
I heard there were a lot of hairy babies born last night.
Glen is a paid shill for NASA.
Haha ……small……far away….
Why are we still waiting to send the first woman to the moon,I’d like to volunteer my other half.
The fact that you referred to her as ‘other half” as though you were not complete without her… suggests otherwise.
Ahh good point, I’d go with her so and give earth a break..
Where’s its cape?
A guy I know looked up at the sun and then at the moon on one of those early mornings when both are visible and said, I kid you not, “I thought the sun and the moon were the same thing” – he thought the moon was the sun with the lights off basically! He wasn’t joking. I never got over it.
Seriously,i hope people did not think the moon actually changed size!
Ahh Stephen,the same people think it’s made of cheese.
I knew a girl once who thought the earth was spinning faster on windy days, and that was why the clouds went by quicker. That’s a true story.
Ah god bless women
I knew a girl once and when we went on holiday she asked is that the same sun we have at home or is it a different one.
I knew a girl once that asked ‘why is the sun setting over the sea, at home is rises over the sea?’
Yes, but the point i was trying to,ale that there are folk out there that think the moon physically is bigger. I know its all about distance. After all, in the end, size isnt everything
The moon’s visual impact in the sky last night was dramtically more striking than it usually is.
It did look bigger and brighter.
@Sergeant Yates
You are incorrect though it is common for people to believe this. The moon stays the same distance from the earth at all times. Father Ted’s cow analogy never applies. When it appears bigger, it is only because it is closer to the horizon and you perceive it as being bigger. Buildings and things like that give that perspective. Here is a video rendering of its orbit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgpIy4tUjFI
4 year olds don’t count!
The optical illusion that makes the moon look bigger when it is close to the horizon has absolutely NOTHING to do with the super moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon
The super moon is where the moon is full at the same time that it is at its closest to earth in its orbit. The supermoon is NOT an optical illusion and does NOT make the moon appear 15-30% bigger. it appears bigger by about 1-2mm in diameter to an observer at sea-level.
You are confusing two different concepts.
If you had a 16″ pizza would you call that a super-pizza compared to a 15″ pizza? A super moon is a slightly bigger moon, I ain’t using the adjective ‘super’” – Neil Degrasse Tyson
From the wikipedia page:
“According to NASA, a full moon at perigee is up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than one at its farthest point, or apogee”
That’s 14% bigger at its closest to its most distant, not 14% bigger than average. This really is a non-event and it will happen again in September. The moon will also be 14% bigger than it was at apogee during phases other than the full moon and nobody will bat an eyelid.
Come round my gaff n I’ll show ya a super moon
If you got up off it every now and then it woud not be super ☆☆☆
It’s 300 times closer to earth than the sun and 300 times smaller than the sun, so as it appears in the sky at night it’s the exact same size as the sun appears during the day.
The photos are all beautiful and Niamh O’Mahony’s shot is stunning!
That’s not the only thing beautiful and stunning ;)
Saw it last night driving from Salt Lake City to Twin Falls Idaho. It’s very striking when there’s no light pollution and your out in a high desert with no clouds. It was bright enough to read by.
The supermoon is not visible from Cork.
It was from Youghal
Another Dublin conspiracy ,, :-)
Because people there are too shortsighted…
Simply remove your head from your arse.
It’s just not super enough for Cork.
It only comes out at night lad
Saw it quite clearly in the city last night
Go to specsavers.
Glen: U must be due annual visit to specsavers
Nothing strange about this,been like this for millions of years,
Millions of years ago it would have been closer to earth and a lot bigger.
Probally a stupid comment but is it a super moon for rest of the week
i was super, duper high looking at the super moon last night
No, I saw the super rain though.
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