Stormont’s Department of Health was the “greatest superspreader” of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland during the early months of the pandemic, a former minister has claimed. Edwin Poots, formerly the DUP’s
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Meetings of the Stormont Executive in late 2020 to consider extending Covid lockdown measures in Northern Ireland were characterised by “chaotic and frankly embarrassing horse-trading”, Naomi Long has said. Northern
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Former Northern Ireland secretary Sir Brandon Lewis said he feared the Stormont Executive could collapse in autumn 2020, as tensions rose between ministers about whether to extend Covid restrictions. Giving
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Robin Swann urged an end to the “nonsense” of ministerial colleagues making public attacks on Executive decisions over lockdown restrictions during a rise in Covid cases in 2020. The letter
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The triggering of cross-community votes by Stormont ministers over lockdown restrictions was “not helpful” in maintaining public confidence in measures to combat the Covid pandemic, a senior scientific adviser has
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Tensions rose between the Department of Health and the Public Health Agency (PHA) in Northern Ireland over the daily death and testing figures during the early stages of the coronavirus
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Northern Ireland’s commissioner for older people has blasted cases during the pandemic where people were discharged to care homes without being tested for Covid-19 as “reckless”. Eddie Lynch said it
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The former head of Northern Ireland’s Civil Service has said it “probably would have been prudent” to have established the emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic days earlier. The UK
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The coming of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry to Northern Ireland “can honour our loved ones’ memories”, a bereaved daughter has said. The inquiry started three weeks’ of hearings in Belfast
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Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, blasted politicians as “dysfunctional bastards” in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Fractious exchanges at Stormont were detailed during the
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