Twelve people travelling on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Ireland were injured during a bout of turbulence, Dublin Airport said on Sunday, adding that the plane landed safely and as scheduled. Flight QR017, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, landed shortly before 1 p.m. Dublin time (1200 GMT), the airport said. “Upon landing, the aircraft … Read more
Disruption is expected in Northern Ireland’s health services as junior doctors begin walk out. Source link
The law will mean that people born in or after 2009 will never be able to legally buy cigarettes. Source link
Image source, PacemakerImage caption, Why decisions were taken about what happened in Northern Ireland hospitals during the pandemic will be one of the things examined by the inquiry By Marie-Louise Connolly BBC News NI health correspondent “Watching Covid patients say goodbye to their families via a Zoom call was difficult and extremely emotional.” Dr George … Read more
Joanna Barrett, associate head of policy at the NSPCC, said: “All children deserve the same protection from assault as adults. Yet in England and Northern Ireland, children continue to be exposed to a legal loophole that can undermine their basic right to protection under the guise of ‘reasonable chastisement’. Source link
The department said it will continue to work closely with NIPSO, GPs and health and social care trusts to improve access to waiting time information for patients, but that a number of the recommendations within the report would require additional resources, both financial and staffing, at a time of severe budgetary pressures. Source link
Families from Northern Ireland say they want to ensure they are not a footnote in the inquiry. Source link
Around 15,000 children are not fully immunised against measles, mumps and rubella, a report finds. Source link
Dublin, Ireland CNN — Like so many Americans do each year, President Joe Biden returned to Ireland this week in search of his roots, seeking some connection and some answers in the land his people left so many years ago. He found it in pubs, priests and Parliament, which he said (in the Irish language) … Read more
CNN — When Humza Yousaf took his oath of allegiance in Scottish parliament in 2016, he wore a gold embroidered sherwani – a traditional South Asian jacket – and a kilt. “I, Humza Yousaf, swear with honesty and a true heart,” he proudly said in Urdu, “that I will always be faithful and bear true … Read more