*Deputy Michael McNamara (IND). MOVES WERE MADE within the Department of Health to ‘shut down’ the Dáil’s COVID-19 committee for asking too many questions, its Chairman has claimed.
*Dr Tony Holohan. Photograph: Joe Buckley CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, Dr Tony Holohan refused to take questions from the media during his visit to Clare this week.
*Full crowds will now be allowed in the one setting with no social distancing. Photograph: True Media ALMOST all COVID-19 restrictions are to be ended from tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 6am.
*Photograph: John Mangan SCHOOLS remaining open during the month of January needs to kept under “tight review,” a Clare TD has said.
*Photograph: Natasha Barton “The Government have lost the dressing room”. That was how I described the state of current political affairs on Clare FM’s Morning Focus having taken soundings from politicians from Government parties over the past weekend.
PUBS AND RESTAURANTS will have to close at 8pm from Monday until January 30th.
UPROAR has been expressed nationally with the recommendations of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) issued amid the rising spread of the Omnicron variant
*Photograph: John Mangan NEW COVID-19 restrictions are to come into effect from Tuesday (December 7th) after the Government accepted the recommendations of NPHET.
The feeling of déjà vu is something that an estimated two thirds of human being have experienced. That feeling that you’ve lived through your current surroundings and circumstances at a point in time before or that things are eerily like a past event.
A closing time of midnight is to be reintroduced from Thursday for restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
