A new four-part podcast series showing inside the Arts for Health programme has just been released. Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork, which integrates the arts programmes into the culture and practice of healthcare settings for older people. It takes place in five community hospitals […]
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With strict restrictions now in place in maternity hospitals nationwide, new mothers are becoming increasing worried about the prospect of giving birth without the birth plan and the support team they would have wanted. “The situation is changing rapidly and mothers are contacting me in a frenzy, worried they will […]
Cork County Council’s Library Service has begun delivering books directly to the doorsteps of some of it’s vulnerable members who are isolating during Covid-19. From Kilworth to Kilcrohane and everywhere in between, those who ordinarily enjoy regular visits to their local library can still count on having something new to […]
Irish Water is working at this time, with our local authority partners, contractors and others to safeguard the health and well-being of staff and the public and to ensure the continuity of drinking water and wastewater services. Great care must always be taken to protect drinking water supplies wherever pesticide […]
‘Drive to Care’ comes after house bound members feared they wouldn’t be able to get gluten free products during lockdown. The Coeliac Society of Ireland is teaming up with baked goods brand Promise Gluten Free to deliver free food packs to hundreds of vulnerable coeliacs who are cocooning in order […]
An industry-wide pilot test of new ways of working would never have been planned this way! And yet, now into week three of Ireland’s remote working revolution and, anecdotally anyway, people seem to be adapting to this dramatic labour market shift says Donal O’Donoghue, President of The National Recruitment Federation […]