Parent praises ‘amazing’ new initiative that allows her family to remotely check-in on her baby son amid COVID-19 visiting restrictions. Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland South Women and Infants Directorate have worked with the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork to introduce a secure video messaging platform in the Neonatal Intensive […]
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After graduating from her Masters in Public International Law at Utrecht University three years ago, Niamh O’Dwyer from West Cork decided to stay on in the Netherlands. She is now living and working in Amsterdam. Niamh recalls when the seriousness of the current situation really started to really sink in […]
Clonakilty Chamber of Commerce has announced an initiative to support local businesses in the face of the Covid-19 emergency, pledging a €40,000 fund to supplement the purchase of Clonakilty Vouchers. The €40,000 fund will provide for a 20 per cent supplement on €50 and €100 Clonakilty Vouchers, incentivising purchase to […]
Anna Kosjanenko and her family live in Omsk, a city of 1.5 million people in the South West of Siberia. Siberia is a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia. The winters there get very cold (-30C) and right now it is zero degrees outside. Anna works for an […]
ISME, The Irish SME association and Griffith College, the independent third-level institution based in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, are partnering to support Ireland’s small and medium business sector in response to the COVID19 Crisis. Commencing on 6th April and facilitated by Griffith College’s Graduate Business School, industry experts will lead a […]
GROUNDEDAn occasional column by Grace O’Sullivan – mother, ecologist, environment and peace activist, MEP. These are distressing and unsettling times and we are witnessing a new world evolving in tragic circumstances. As we continue in our national efforts at containing the spread of Covid-19, people are being asked to make […]