UNDER pressure Minister for Health When There’s Good PR Stephen Donnelly has confirmed it is beyond tragic that no one, not a single person in NPHET, the wider healthcare system, international experts or the dog on the street ever mentioned risk of exponential growth in Covid cases if the government opened up in person dining… Read more »
HSE management has started a house-by-house recruitment process to find retired nurses, doctors, vets, St. Johns ambulance people, people who learned CPR as part of the Gaisce awards at school, and anyone who has watched 14 or more episodes of Casualty, in a bid to plug the gaps in the health service as Covid-19 continues… Read more »
OFFERING an ‘our bad’ in the form of a shrug of the shoulders, serving and retired politicians have conceded that now the health service is weeks away from a potential collapse they are beginning to regret ignoring warnings stretching back over a decade. “Actually it is the fault of the young people putting the UK… Read more »
A MAN endeavouring to kick start his New Year fitness regime has been surrounded by a rapid pack of wild personal trainers, WWN has learned. With gyms closed for the foreseeable future it is believed Ireland now has some 100,000 personal trainers left with no option but to operate in the wild, something local man… Read more »
WITH the rollout of Covid jabs beginning around the world, concerns about the side effects from talking out of your arse about Covid-19 have never been more vocal and prominent. Are you concerned about a loved one and keen to know what the side effects are? WWN has the list you need. Among the most… Read more »
THE government’s decision to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine first to elderly people in care homes has put a serious dampener on one Waterford family’s plans to go somewhere nice in the new year for a guilt-free holiday, now that they don’t have a foolproof excuse for not calling in to see their grandmother once… Read more »
“TYPICAL IRISH, coming over here taking our jabs,” remarked one UK customs official as the first ferry load of Irish people made the boat trip to England in search of medical treatment currently not available in Ireland. The cross channel traffic is being blamed on news that a 91-year-old Irish grandmother was the first in… Read more »
THE MORE than 200 children with scoliosis and in desperate need of surgery have been informed that their best hope of securing an operation would be by going on the Late Late Toy Show next year. “Heartbroken parents will feel appealing directly to the government, the minister for health, pleading for some humanity and to… Read more »
INITIALLY overcome with a wave relief at the news that the UK will rollout Pfizer and BionTech’s Covid-19 vaccine as early as next week, local Englishman Hugh Harding is now a staunch opponent to what he believes is a sovereignty stealing jab. “And what, I take it and wake up speaking the Furher’s German with… Read more »
After a critical shortfall in funding at Dublin Zoo emerged yesterday Taoiseach Micheál Martin swiftly spoke up in the Dáil to allay fears that the zoo would close, stating ‘not on my watch’ as he pledged the government would step in to save the beloved institution. While obviously delighted, a much appreciative Irish public were… Read more »