[ad_1] RTE viewers have praised GAA legend Sean Boylan for his ‘gentle strength’ during an honest interview with Tommy Tiernan on tonight’s Tommy Tiernan show. The Meath icon discussed her holistic approach to medicine, her history at GAA, and her connection to Hill of Tara on the RTE series. When asked by Tommy about his … Read more
[ad_1] The National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) reported one more death from a Covid-19 patient. This brings to 4,319 the total number of deaths in the Republic since the pandemic began. Nphet also reported 687 confirmed cases of the disease, bringing the total number of cases in the Republic to 220,273. Of the new … Read more
[ad_1] An appeal has been issued for the public to help identify skeletal remains found by workers involved in earthwork on the former Midleton to Youghal railway line in Co Cork. The remains were found on January 5. Gardaí says they are those of a woman and have not been linked to any known missing … Read more
[ad_1] Unidentified gunmen captured 317 schoolchildren in northwestern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in just over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants. School kidnappings, first practiced by jihadist groups Boko Haram and the West African province of the Islamic State, have become endemic in the increasingly lawless north, … Read more
[ad_1] NASA has released stunning new photos of Perseverance, including one of the rover gently lowered to the surface of Mars using a set of cables, the first time such a view has been captured. The high-resolution still image was taken from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that had carried … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s MARS PERSERVERENCE rover has landed on the red planet, the space agency announced. The landing on Mars was scheduled for 8:55 a.m., and the rover landed in Jezero crater without complications. Your mission is to search for signs of ancient life and explore and collect samples for the future return to Earth from … Read more
[ad_1] Updated 40 minutes ago The UK is urged to share its vaccine surpluses with neighboring and developing countries. Dr David Nabarro, World Health Organization (WHO) special envoy for Covid-19, said that the UK has 400 million doses of vaccine on demand is “totally understandable”, but that, once everyone over 50 in the UK has … Read more
[ad_1] The UK should share any replacement coronavirus vaccines with Ireland, the Sinn Féin president has said. Mary Lou McDonald said the spirit of “generosity and solidarity” in the vaccine exchange should spread globally. He was asked on Sky News if he would like to see overdoses from the UK diverted to the Republic, given … Read more
[ad_1] Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed that those over 70 will not be given the “revolutionary” AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. Now serious questions have been raised about the vaccination schedule, which will have to be changed on the advice of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (CANI) that AstraZeneca might be less effective in older people. … Read more
[ad_1] JOHNSON & JOHNSON HAS announced that global trials found their single dose vaccine to be 66% effective in preventing Covid-19. The results were obtained in a large trial with 44,000 volunteers that was carried out on three continents and against multiple variants of the virus. The US company said the jab was 85% effective … Read more