The board of the HSE was warned that cases of the flu were "especially high" among the elderly as the coronavirus outbreak loomed.
Two elderly people 'cocooning' at home are feared to have caught Covid-19 from visits by healthcare support workers.
Here we are again - another week of lockdown. And are we nearing the end, or not? You see, I don't like this atmosphere in which we, the older people, are now living, in that one week our hopes are raised that there will be some breakthrough in movement for us who have not been...
Placido Domingo has announced he will return to the stage in September despite being embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal.
"We won," said Don Samaratunga, a healthcare assistant at a Dublin nursing home. "We defeated the coronavirus. I'm very pleased to say we are 100pc clear at the moment."
If there's one line that has become the unofficial mantra for getting through lockdown, it's Seamus Heaney's quote: "It we can winter this one out, we can summer anywhere."
Among dozens of rows of monster racking and conveyor belts, women in hi-vis vests and protective visors are pulling products from assembly lines and carefully placing them into tote boxes.
