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Minding Your Long Term Health During COVID-19

Minding Your Long Term Health During COVID-19

People with long-term health conditions may be more at risk of serious illness if they get coronavirus. Therefore, you need to take extra care to protect yourself. During this time of uncertainty, our daily lives have changed a lot. If you have a long-term health condition you still have to do the things that help ...

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Let’s Stay Connected

Let’s Stay Connected

Some people might find this time more worrying than others and may need some extra support on the phone or online. Whatever you are going through in isolation, let's stay connected and make it through, together. https://bit.ly/2Kjh95z www.YourMentalHealth.ie

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Shine Your Light – April 11th 2020

Shine Your Light – April 11th 2020

At 9pm this evening, we are all invited to shine a light in our homes. This is to honour all the sick, those who have lost their lives, health care workers and all frontline staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Extension to Restrictions

Extension to Restrictions

Today it was announced that the travel, work and social distancing restrictions have been extended for a further three weeks until Tuesday May 5th. These restrictions are all necessary measures to further slow the spread of the virus. Garda enforcement powers will also be extended for this time period. We cannot ...

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Extension to the Fuel Allowance

Extension to the Fuel Allowance

It has been announced today that the Fuel Allowance season is to be extended by four weeks - from Friday April 10th - May 8th, in response to the COVID-19 emergency. The current 28-week season was due to finish on April 10th.

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Support for our Frontline Staff

Support for our Frontline Staff

Wherever you are this evening at 8pm, stop and applaud the HSE frontline staff who deserve all of our support during these very tough times. Give them a big round of applause from your front door, garden, windows, living room or wherever you can to show them how much we appreciate all they are doing.

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COVID-19 Information Booklet

COVID-19 Information Booklet

A new COVID-19 information booklet will be distributed to households across the country by An Post in the next few days. This booklet will outline information about the Coronavirus such as: ✅ How The Government is responding to the Coronavirus. ✅ The symptoms associated with the Coronavirus. ✅ How you can ...

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New testing criteria has been introduced for COVID-19.

New testing criteria has been introduced for COVID-19.

Patients will now need to meet revised criteria to qualify for testing. Patients must now display: A fever and at least one other symptom (like a cough OR shortness of breath) and also must fall into a priority group before being referred for testing. Priority groups include: * Close contacts of confirmed ...