ON THIS DAY: 30TH MARCH 1849, Doolough Tragedy where a large crowd of starving people died on the journey to receive food they were promised

170 years ago on Friday night, March 30th, 1849, during the starvation, 600 people, including women and children, were living in the town of Louisborough. The starving people were told to go to Delphi Lodge for inspection and if they did not go, they would be cut off any relief programmes. They were promised food and relief.

On a bleak and freezing cold night they set out to meet the landlord and council guardians in Delphi Lodges. Wearing rags and torn clothes with only shawls for protection in bitter weather conditions, they walked 20 miles, many in their bare feet. When they eventually got to the Lodge the following morning, the starving and helpless crowd were told that the guardians could not be disturbed while they were having their lunch. When they eventually did see them, the people were sent away empty-handed and most of them died on the journey back.

Later

On March 10th, the HSE wrote to nursing homes and hospitals telling them to "lift visitor bans" that many such homes had put in place. Three weeks later, almost half the "clusters" of Coronavirus in Ireland are in Nursing Homes

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https://gript.ie/hse-nursing-homes-coronavirus/

60 Minutes Australia is reporting that Dr Ai Fen, head of the emergency department at Wuhan Central Hospital and one of the first doctors to publicly talk about COVID-19, has disappeared.

https://gript.ie/60-minutes-wuhan-whistle-blower-dr-ai-fen-has-disappeared/

The HSE has issued advice to Irish health workers saying wearing masks is "is not supported by evidence".

But the Irish doc leading the WHO response says that the idea of health workers NOT wearing masks is "horrifying".

Who's right? It really matters.

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https://gript.ie/government-health-workers-masks/

MARGARET HICKEY asks: "Are the Greens redundant as Covid-19 makes the world greener and cleaner?"

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https://gript.ie/are-the-greens-redundant-as-covid-19-makes-the-world-greener-and-cleaner/

DAVID MULLINS: Parasites in the age of the virus

"It is almost 100 years since the Money Lenders Bill 1929 was introduced in Dáil Eireann. At that time the practice of lending relatively small sums of money to low income or destitute families at extortionate levels of interest was described as “an evil that is almost ineradicable.” "

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https://gript.ie/parasites-in-the-age-of-the-virus/

15 Things You Can Do to Help Others During the Covid-19 Outbreak

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https://gript.ie/15-things-you-can-do-to-help-others-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/

MATT TREACY: Cardinal Mindszenty’s resistance to Nazism and communism made him a hero and a hate figure

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https://gript.ie/cardinal-mindszentys-resistance-to-nazism-and-communism-made-him-a-hero-and-a-hate-figure/

DR ANNE McCLOSKEY: Why I’m going back to work during the Coronavirus crisis

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https://gript.ie/dr-anne-mccloskey-why-im-going-back-to-work-during-the-coronavirus-crisis/

Are the Chinese authorities trying to shift blame with respect to the current epidemic? #gript

https://youtu.be/6BeGPCn9OoQ

American scientists have made an astonishing breakthrough in the fight against Climate Change by genetically engineering an American Bison calf to breath in Carbon Dioxide. Meet "Cabbage":

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https://gript.ie/cabbage-the-calf-climate-change/

Senator Ronan Mullen appears on course to top the poll in the NUI Seanad election and to be re-elected for a third term. Unfortunately, some people are not taking the news very well

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https://gript.ie/mullen-win-seanad/

News website TheJournal is to close its business website and cut back staff pay as the recession starts to bite in the media:


https://gript.ie/journal-ie-to-slash-pay-as-recession-bites/

An infectious disease expert has called on the Irish Government to seal the country's border to fight the virus. But the problem nobody is talking about is this: When can you re-open them again? It could be years, not months:

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https://gript.ie/coronavirus-close-the-borders/

UK church sues city council after event cancelled due to speaker’s views on homosexuality

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https://gript.ie/church-sues-city-council-event-cancelled-speakers-homosexuality/

Access to churches ‘at least as important as off-licences’ says Bishop

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https://gript.ie/access-to-churches-at-least-as-important-as-off-licences-says-bishop/

Royal College of Midwives confirms abortion up to birth now legal in Northern Ireland

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https://gript.ie/royal-college-midwives-abortion-birth-legal-northern-ireland/

DR DECLAN HAYES writes on the Coronavirus winners and losers

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https://gript.ie/corona-virus-winners-losers/

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BREAKING: 283,000 people have lost their jobs as a result of the Coronavirus Crisis, more than doubling the unemployment rate in a single month. And the bad news is that it's likely to get worse:


https://gript.ie/breaking-283000-people-lose-jobs-over-coronavirus/

Good news? The American FDA has approved a drug for use as a treatment against Coronavirus after a properly conducted study showed promising results. But it's not a cure:

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https://gript.ie/good-news-american-fda-approves-experimental-virus-treatment/