AS THE initial rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination is criticsed for its slow pace, and young and health people face the prospect of not receiving a jab until the end of the year at the earliest if the current pace is maintained, many are considering ways in which they can skip the lengthy queue. OK,… Read more »
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 »
WITH the sudden onrush of severe and grave consequences being felt from the Covid-19 pandemic the Irish government have voiced frustration, cursing their luck that this virus appeared out of nowhere in Ireland just days ago. “If only we had the guts of a year to prepare for this, boy, you would have loved to… 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 »
THE UN’s annual Human Development Index has listed the Republic Of Ireland as having the second-highest quality of living of anywhere in the world, in a report that apparently isn’t some sort of prank. Ireland, verified as being this Ireland, the one we’re in right now, was said to have a level of health, income… Read more »
AS long as there’s a trolley left empty in the halls of our hospitals, the country should remain open for business as usual; that’s the opinion of amateur statistician and full-time local man Alan Canning, who told WWN all about how Ireland is ‘well able’ to incur another few deaths here and there for the… Read more »
ANY potential ‘vaccine cert’ which people can carry on their person in Ireland that would permit them to avail of and do things non-vaccinated people cannot will be reassuringly easy to forge, the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said. Modeled on the Garda Age Card, the vaccine cert will be an easily copied and… Read more »
IT’S a very real tragedy lost amidst the selfish bleating on about students nurses, but today WWN focuses the spotlight on the pay and working conditions of those far more deserving; unpaid student TDs. Nurses working on the frontlines of Covid-19 and in A&E departments think they have it bad? They will hang their heads… Read more »
“OH GOOD luck trying to get me to get that yoke, I’ll end anyone who tries,” proclaimed local man Graham Folan, speaking about the proposed January rollout of the Covid-19 jab in Ireland. Feeling antagonised at the thought of getting something that could see life for him and everyone else return to normality as soon… Read more »