Here, again.

Micheál Martin to deliver a live televised address on the latest #Covid19ireland restrictions, on @VirginMediaNews in a few minutes.
@VirginMediaNews Taoiseach: The Omicron variant is "exploding throughout Europe"… we are in the early days, but it's clear "we are dealing with a hugely transmissible strain", several times more transmissible than Delta
@VirginMediaNews Taoiseach: More than a third of all new cases in Ireland are attributed to Omicron; question is how we slow that rise. Left unchecked, it would present a "very significant" threat to hospitals and critical care, but also to economy and society
Taoiseach: We are likely to see infections in excess of anything we have seen to date. It is that serious.
"I thank, from the bottom of my heart, all those of you on the frontline of our health system for your extraordinary service"
Taoiseach: "With Omicron it is also becoming clearer that vaccines on their own aren't going to be enough to get through this wave safety"

"There needs to be a very strong and immediate reduction in contacts"
The need to move quickly and to reduce social contact is clear…
From Sunday:

- Restaurants and bars, excluding takeaways/delivery, must close a t8pm
- No indoor events after 8pm
- Earlier indoor events capped at 50% or 1k
- Outdoor events capped at 50% or 5k, whichever lower
- Wedding receptions capped at 100
NEW: Close contacts with a booster must restrict their movements for 5 days after notification; unboosted close contacts must restrict for 10.

Govt also, seemingly, maintaining the requirement to have a PCR/antigen before arrival onto Ireland - NPHET said it could be scrapped
"The news will be deeply disappointing for many. It is not the news I wanted to bring you. nor is it the news you wanted to hear. However, and this is important: the truth is that we are in a much better place than we were this time last year."
"This Christmas, please be safe and look after each other."

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18 Dec
🦠 #COVID19ireland
7333 cases reported today

🏥 Hospital: 410 (481 last week)
ICU: 107 (111)

📈 5d avg: 4645 (4377)
📈 7d avg: 4654 (4284)

📆 14d incidence: 1314/100k (1319)

💉 Vaccination:
½: 3879503 (92.8% of 12+)
✅: 3820450 (91.4%)
➕: 1462167 (35%)
@VirginMediaNews Image
That’s Ireland’s third-highest daily case number of the pandemic. The raw numbers of swabs being taken are not published over the weekend so we can’t, until Monday, tell if it is (yet) reflected by an underlying trend in actual swabbing.
Tony Holohan: “We can expect to see a large number of cases over the next short period of time.” Image
Read 4 tweets
17 Dec
Leo Varadkar: “Unfortunately, once again we’re at a moment of national peril.”
The Omicron wave is coming “hard and fast. There will be dark days in January again.”
"We won't allow your businesses to fail… when this is over we will need you more than ever"
Read 16 tweets
16 Dec
HSE says no sign of any external impact from the cyberattack on the Coombe
Minister of State @smytho tells @VirginMediaNews that the cyberattack on the Coombe Hospital was first spotted when malicious traffic was directed from the Coombe to the HSE's central network, and spotted by intrusion detection systems installed after the HSE's own attack in May
The perpetrators of the attack are not thought to be the same Conti group which led the attack on the HSE - there are no digital 'ransom notes' left behind - but it does entail the encryption of multiple servers in the Coombe's own system
Read 5 tweets
15 Dec
24 more officially sequenced cases of Omicron in Ireland, bringing the national total to 42 - though NPHET says it estimates Omicron now accounts for 13% of all cases, based on its trademark ‘S-gene dropout’.
NPHET reporting 47 Covid-19 deaths since last Wednesday, bringing the total to 5,835.
🦠 #COVID19ireland
4235 cases reported today

🏥 Hospital: 470 (544 last week)
ICU: 105 (118)

📉 5d avg: 4296 (4694)
📉 7d avg: 4231 (4722)

📆 14d incidence: 1316/100k (1362)

💉 Vaccination:
½: 3874974 (92.7% of 12+)
✅: 3813808 (91.3%)
➕: 1240272 (29.7%)
@VirginMediaNews Image
Read 4 tweets
7 Sep
Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs now in public session with Simon Coveney...

Watch live here: oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-…

Will try to keep updates confined to this thread
"I intend to ensure that the Minister is given a fair hearing, and that members have an adequate opportunity to question the Minister," says chairman Charlie Flanagan in a longer-than-usual overture
Before Coveney can speak, a point of order from SF's John Brady... He's taking issue with the fact that Coveney's letter to the committee last Thursday (addressing inconsistencies; circumstances of phone hacking, etc.) appeared in the media before it arrived in members' inboxes
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