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Covid-19

shake it off

Five years on from pandemic, one in four avoid handshaking and only 6% regret getting a dog

25 Mar

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covid inquiry

Taoiseach hopes Covid Inquiry can be ‘expedited’ to 'better prepare' Ireland in the future

17 Mar

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covid pandemic

Strong link between public’s behaviour to mitigate Covid-19 and daily case figures, report shows

25 Feb

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FactCheck

Debunked: Doctors and nurses who gave the Covid-19 vaccines are not being tried for war crimes

4 Feb

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FactCheck

Debunked: ‘HIV-infected Green Monkey DNA’ has not been found in Covid-19 vaccines

28 Jan

242

The Morning Lead

'I miss my old life': Readers with Long Covid tell us how it has affected their lives

Readers with Long Covid said the condition has devastating effects.

We asked our readers to share their experiences of the condition and received a large number of responses.

Many people expressed disappointment and frustration at their experience with the healthcare system, including HSE Long Covid clinics.

In many cases, readers with Long Covid said their condition has had detrimental and even devastating effects on their daily lives.

5 Jan

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your stories

Have you been affected by Long Covid? We want to hear from you

Updated 1 Jan

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Covid-19

WHO remembers lives lost to Covid-19 on fifth anniversary of virus outbreak

30 Dec 2024

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flu cases

Three deaths and over 400 hospitalisations with the flu so far this winter season

12 Dec 2024

8.1k

FactCheck

Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school

Updated 19 Nov 2024

6.6k

Patrick Ruane

UK conspiracy theorist jailed for five years for encouraging violence against Chief Medical Officer

11 Nov 2024

10.8k

covid inquiry

Opposition calls for Covid inquiry to have powers to compel people to attend

3 Nov 2024

5.5k

covid inquiry

Tánaiste in 'no doubt' that former CMO and NPHET members will appear before Covid inquiry

31 Oct 2024

7.0k

FactCheck

Debunked: Fake news story claims Irish government will arrest those who refuse vaccines in future

9 Oct 2024

8.5k

Vaccines

HSE launches winter vaccination programme and warns that Covid-19 and flu are on the rise

30 Sep 2024

9.0k

aquatic raid

Boris Johnson considered raiding a Dutch warehouse for Covid vaccines as PM, says memoir

27 Sep 2024

17.9k

FactCheck

Debunked: Claim that PCR tests are ‘97% inaccurate' is false (and old)

6 Sep 2024

12.1k

ESRI

Covid infection rates were more than a third higher in deprived areas

4 Jul 2024

10.0k

long covid

Over 40% of people with long Covid say ability to conduct daily activities has ‘reduced a lot’

2 Jul 2024

11.8k

FactCheck

Debunked: Visiting restrictions at Tallaght Hospital are due to viruses, despite conspiracy theories

27 Jun 2024

13.8k

Health

There was a 60% jump in Covid-19 cases in Ireland last week

27 Jun 2024

32.2k

FactCheck

Debunked: A US appeals court did not rule that mRNA shots are not really 'vaccines'

14 Jun 2024

8.7k

Covid-19

Estimated 1,100 excess deaths during pandemic years, report says

4 Jun 2024

11.9k

Coronavirus

Heather Humphreys did not want Covid-19 to be recognised as an occupational illness

27 May 2024

16.1k

NI Covid Inquiry

Michelle O’Neill apologises for attending Bobby Storey’s funeral during Covid lockdown

Updated 14 May 2024

9.6k

Covid-19

UK's Covid-19 inquiry to begin sittings in Belfast

30 Apr 2024

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ESRI

Employment recovery post-Covid was due to supports during pandemic, says study

24 Apr 2024

4.6k

Vaccines

HSE's Spring booster vaccination programme gets underway on Monday

19 Apr 2024

16.2k

Health Committee

HSE will not review care for people with Long Covid until new evidence emerges

17 Apr 2024

7.0k

The Morning Lead

Long Covid: 'The public, the government and the HSE do not understand the scale of this issue'

Long Covid Advocacy Ireland will call for the Government to review how people with the condition are cared for at the Oireachtas Health Committee today.

17 Apr 2024

13.2k

Covid-19

Government further extends paid leave scheme for public health workers suffering from long-Covid

16 Apr 2024

7.4k

Covax System

HSE says ‘misconfiguration’ of Covid vaccine dataset did not result in ‘unauthorised viewing’ of data

13 Mar 2024

5.2k

29 02 20

The Covid leap day: Experts look back on 2020 and ahead to 2028

The first case of Covid was reported in Ireland on 29 February 2020.

29 Feb 2024

14.8k

Covid-19

70% of people bereaved during pandemic say loved one did not have death they would have wanted

27 Feb 2024

8.5k

long covid

Irish researchers discover possible underlying cause of ‘brain fog’ in Long Covid patients

22 Feb 2024

20.8k

covid inquiry

Ireland's Covid-19 inquiry will involve a 'no-blame' approach

Updated 25 Jan 2024

11.4k

Scottish CMO told colleague to delete messages ‘at end of every day’, Covid inquiry told

22 Jan 2024

8.2k

back on tracks

Public transport use hit record high last year, rising above pre-pandemic levels

17 Jan 2024

8.8k

Health

Substantial increase in flu expected to 'peak in next week or two'

10 Jan 2024

17.9k

The Morning Lead

Ireland's nursing home sector 'under threat of failure' amid post-pandemic challenges - report

Fourteen private operators control 40% of nursing home beds, the study found.

One in five small, private nursing homes have closed for good, since the pandemic.

Private patients receive 55% less subsidy funding compared to patients in the public sector.

Models of care are being wiped out and the sector is under threat, according to one sector representative.

Muiris O'Cearbhaill

Updated 9 Jan 2024

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