On Wednesday Katherine Zappone, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs formally announced the government’s plans to begin the phased reopening of childcare facilities around Ireland. As part of the plan, personal from the sector are due to begin working in the homes of Ireland’s healthcare workers. The terms of this agreement, however, have caused some dispute within the sector, particularly around concerns on potentially unsafe working conditions. Episode 24 of Viral COVID - 19 look’s at how I...
May 08, 2020•21 min•Ep. 24
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. One of the lingering questions throughout the duration of this crisis, has been what will happen with this years leaving cert students, who in regular circumstances would be exactly 5 weeks away from sitting down to write English Paper One. Episode 23 of Viral COVID - 19 looks at whether there is any way to conduct this summer’s years examinations in a ...
May 06, 2020•17 min•Ep. 23
Since the beginning of the crisis, the messaging from the government - to the public has been consistent in terms of keeping the fight against COVID going. There has been a huge amount of support and congratulations for the hard sacrifices and determination from the county collectively. This however changed last Friday, as we heard signals from Leo Varadkar, Simon Harris and CMO Dr Tony Holohan about their growing concern around the publics continued effort in social distancing. A narrative bega...
Apr 30, 2020•20 min•Ep. 22
On Friday Leo Varadkar will address the nation regarding what potential measures might be lightened past the 5th of May, as Ireland closes in on its 7th week of Lockdown. As the days draw, closer vast changes are seemingly less likely, as testing and ICU figures are still not close enough from their desired level. Episode 21 of the podcast looks at what exactly needs to fall into place before Ireland begins to move in that direction, but also how the country is fairing with life in their 2-kilom...
Apr 28, 2020•23 min•Ep. 21
Ireland is now currently awaiting further instruction on reduced lockdown conditions which are due on May 5th but, as we have discussed on the podcast in recent days - these will be carried out on a phased basis. For many, the things that give us the most joy in life revolve around the hospitality industry; eating out, dancing in a bar or a nightclub or catching up with friends in a busy pub for a drink. These are furthest down the pecking order in terms of re-opening, and if signals last week f...
Apr 24, 2020•17 min•Ep. 20
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. Episode 19 of Viral: COVID - 19 looks at the future of Ireland’s economy, as the world prepares for its worst global recession in nearly a century. On Tuesday afternoon, Paschal Donohoe laid out the government’s Stability Programme Update, setting its economic forecast for the year ahead. The predictions made were shocking and difficult to believe. A...
Apr 21, 2020•13 min•Ep. 19
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. Both Ireland and The UK are living in extremely similar lockdown conditions currently, with schools, colleges and non-essential workplaces closed. With a similar health system and health resources per capita, and assumption might be made that both countries would be on par in relation to fatalities and confirmed cases. This however, has not been the c...
Apr 16, 2020•21 min•Ep. 18
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the International world in a growing capacity. Intensive care unit capacity has been one of the focal points in Ireland’s approach to combating the Coronavirus outbreak, and a huge emphasis since day one, has been made in maximising the allocation of resources. On today's podcast , The Irish Sun’s Adam Higgins speaks about a Patient Evaluation Process being carried out at major hospitals along the w...
Apr 15, 2020•16 min
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. Today’s episode looked at whether the global rush to find a vaccine for the Coronavirus pandemic is getting any closer to completion. Eilish O’Regan, Health Correspondent for The Irish Independent spoke in detail on what a potential Vaccine will look like, and the many obstacles that prohibit it being rolled out in the short term. Ahead of further lockd...
Apr 10, 2020•13 min•Ep. 16
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak in Ireland, we have faced huge problems with containing the circulation of rumour and speculation, relating to all manner of events. In the beginning, most rumours that managed to grow legs related to army enforced lockdown scenarios, which created an increased level of anxiety for many people awaiting ...
Apr 08, 2020•15 min•Ep. 15
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. Last week the Irish Government set guidelines for how funeral services should take place, while still adhering social-distancing restrictions during the COVID - 19 crisis. Episode 14 of the podcast looks at what complications might take place by changing the ways to honour the dead, to adhere to new measures. Professor Salvador Ryan who is one of Irela...
Apr 07, 2020•20 min•Ep. 14
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. Homelessness and housing were the second most important issues behind health in the Irish General Election last February, and now more than ever before, the COVID - 19 crisis is a very precise juncture where these social and political issues link. Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin's spokesman on housing and TD for Dublin Mid-West gives his take on the shortcomin...
Apr 03, 2020•23 min•Ep. 13
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. Episode 12 looks at the vital role food can play in combating the Coronavirus pandemic, as Sarah Keogh one of Ireland's lead dieticians dissects what foods will help keep the body and mind in the best condition during the extended quarantine period. We also investigate the logistics that go into supplying food to members of Ireland’s more vulnerable co...
Mar 31, 2020•22 min•Ep. 12
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. As Ireland’s temporarily unemployed numbers reach close to 300,000, this podcast look’s at how renters and homeowners fair in the government’s emergency housing legislation announced late last week. Ian Doyle speaks to The Times Ireland Editions’s Paul O’Donoghue and John Mark McCafferty - Chairman of Threshold, Ireland’s housing charity. Produced by U...
Mar 30, 2020•16 min•Ep. 11
On episode 10 of the podcast, we look at what the Coronavirus outbreak teaches us about Ireland’s Public Healthcare System, How it differs from general medicine and whether it’s essentially fit for purpose. As a disclaimer, we do not mean Public Healthcare in the sense of Ireland’s public vs private hospital services, but rather the approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole rather than the individual. Priscilla Lynch editor of The Medical Independent goes...
Mar 27, 2020•13 min•Ep. 10
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. Contrary to popular speculation, “lockdown” measures were not introduced by the government yesterday afternoon, but plenty of news surrounding healthcare, social welfare and business closures were announced, in another monumental speech from An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. In Episode 9 of the podcast, The Irish Sun’s Adam Higgins who was at the conference s...
Mar 25, 2020•14 min•Ep. 9
As Ireland settles into its second full week of restricted measures, and awaits more potential news in the coming days, episode 7 of Viral: COVID - 19 look at news from the wider world, to see what way the Coronavirus is effecting peoples lives on a day to day basis. Over the past 2 days, we have chatted to six Irish people on six different continents about their own personal experience as well as the restrictions and measures that have been put in place in their own region. From Adisa Abba to B...
Mar 23, 2020•24 min
On episode 7, we are looking at some of the most common personal finance questions our listeners have, as Ireland see’s 58,000 people sign on for COVID 19 unemployment welfare in under two weeks. Personal Finance Expert Paul Merriman from AskPaul.ie joins Ian to discuss how we can all be more financially secure in the coming weeks and months ahead. In the chat, he looks at the recently announced mortgage moratorium and it's potential caveats, how SME’s can keep afloat while also paying their sta...
Mar 20, 2020•17 min•Ep. 7
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. As Coronavirus cases rise rapidly across the island post-St Patricks Day, we are going to look at how the virus has seen an increase in racist behaviour towards some of Ireland’s Chinese community in recent weeks We speak to Chinese Irish artist Jin Yong as well as Brian Killoran, CEO of the Irish Council of Immigrants to get their take on COVID 19 rel...
Mar 19, 2020•15 min•Ep. 6
As COVID 19 puts a stop to trade and industry around the globe, the economic impacts of the virus could be felt for years to come. Late last week Leo Varadkar spoke about the imminent consequences that the Coronavirus will certainly have on the economy of Ireland and the wider world. On episode 5 of Viral: COVID - 19, we wanted to look a little closer to home and see how a selection of Irish businesses and workers are faring, in the early days of the global pandemic. In the episode, we look at a...
Mar 16, 2020•17 min•Ep. 5
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity Today’s podcast is a special program dedicated to Leo Varadkar’s lockdown announcement from Washington DC but more specifically the public reaction at home to it. We talk stockpiling, contingency plans and childcare woe’s with the people a wide variety of concerned, and not so concerned citizens. Adam Higgins from The Irish Sun also joins, to talk throu...
Mar 13, 2020•17 min•Ep. 4
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. It delves into how a global story on this level, can be fuelled by internet speculation and Viral phenomena, and what effect that has on the factual reporting of the news. Episode 3 of the mini-series looks at the theme of “ at risk groups” and what that term really actually means. In the episode, they speak to Dr Lindsay Broadbent, an expert Virologi...
Mar 11, 2020•17 min•Ep. 3
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. It delves into how a global story on this level, can be fuelled by internet speculation and Viral phenomena, and what effect that has on the factual reporting of the virus? In episode two of the mini-series, we look at whether panic and hysteria are taking control of Ireland, as rumours of mass closures circulate around the country. Brendan Kelly who ...
Mar 11, 2020•14 min•Ep. 2
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. It delves into how a global story on this level, can be fuelled by internet speculation and Viral phenomena, and what effect that has on the factual reporting of the virus? Presented by Ian Doyle, each episode will open with a live update from Ireland’s Department of Health speaking to some of the countries leading journalists about the breaking Coron...
Mar 09, 2020•14 min•Ep. 1
Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to effect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. Episodes will also look at how a global story on this level, can be fuelled by internet speculation and what effect that has on the factual reporting of the virus. Each episode will be looking to debunk some of the myths around the Coronavirus outbreak and establish deeper information on how it is affecting Ireland as a whole. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
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