Covid-19
Throughout the pandemic, the establishment have been quick to call frontline health workers “heroes”. Junior doctor Eóin Ó Murchú argues that lip-service is not enough, and COVID has put a spotlight on treatment of health staff in Ireland. The arrival of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Ireland brought the capacity
Covid-19
After a Spring in which Sweden had one of the worst Covid death rates in Europe, some latched on to their low summer case numbers to argue for a herd immunity approach. But as cases again rise dramatically, Madeleine Johansson challenges the Swedish herd immunity myth. North and South, Ireland
Covid-19
As Stormont releases its ‘roadmap to recovery’ Rebel details the road already taken by the Executive during the COVID-19 crisis – filled with confused intentions and potentially deadly missteps. Interested observers of the Stormont Executive’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic might have been somewhat surprised by last Thursday’