New Governmentshould avoid two-tier care of older and vulnerable adults Challenges faced by the nursing and home care sectors in the Covid-19 crisis highlight the need for major reform – including a new integrated national system of support and care for older people. Sage Advocacy, which works with vulnerable adults, said today that […]
Units idle during pandemic may create risk later on There are potential health risks associated with water-fed equipment that have been left idle during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Euro Refrigeration Limited, who also operate Ice Water, Ireland’s leading provider of premium filtered water. Such systems include ice making machines, filtered water […]
Early warning system could be rolled out across health care sector A remote early warning system for the detection of Covid-19 symptoms among frontline medical staff at Cork University Hospital is showing promising results. The early warning system has been developed through a software industry and healthcare partnership with University […]
Tania Presutti hears from Inseok Yoon, a post-doctoral researcher in Physics, how through intensive tracing, testing and quarantining, South Korea is successfully handling the pandemic. As a result, Covid-19 hasn’t changed much in the way of everyday life in South Korea. When Covid-19 landed on South Korean soil for the […]
RTE’s award-winning heritage series Building Ireland, which chronicles the engineering, geography and architecture behind some of Ireland’s most iconic building projects returns, returns to screens on April 16, with an episode on the construction of Dublin Airport’s terminal building. West Cork features in episode 3, which examines the Beara Peninsula’s […]
A PhD student at University College Cork (UCC) is providing a free online weekly activity programme for children interested in science and technology. Marinara Marcato, a PhD student at the Tyndall National Institute in UCC, established SMART Edu Club, to create high quality, educational content for children in a fun and […]