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The Department of Health has confirmed 3,578 additional cases of Covid-19 here in the Republic of Ireland, over the past 24 hours.
The number of patients with Covid-19 in hospital has increased to 520, same figure up 22 on the same time yesterday. Of these there remain 83 patients in ICU; an increase of 5 on yesterday’s reported figures.
Meanwhile, the Minister for Public Expenditure, Mr Michael McGrath has correctly stated that businesses in the hospitality sector, that do not enforce rules relating to Covid-19 vaccination passes, do not deserve to remain open. The Minister further stated that hospitality outlets that do not enforce the rules are placing every other person at risk.
Today’s numbers are now the highest in our hospitals since March 1st last, when there were 540 patients with Covid-19. The three hospitals with the highest number of Covid-19 cases are St James’s in Dublin with 44 cases, University Hospital Limerick; latter the medical facility serving North Tipperary with 37 cases and the Regional Hospital Mullingar with 33.
Europe is once again at the epicentre of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as cases soar across the continent. WHO Europe head Herr Hans Kluge has stated that the continent could see half a million further deceased persons by next February. He has blamed insufficient vaccine take-up by individuals for this rise.
Costa Rica has become the first country in the world to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for children. The vaccination will join the already extensive list of basic childhood vaccinations already required by law, health officials have stated.
The country has already signed a deal with Pfizer to acquire the necessary doses to start vaccinating all children under 12 years from March 2022.
A professor of Immunology here at DCU, Prof Christine Loscher has said that vaccinating children aged between 5 and 11 years will play a role in overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic and in preventing the onward spread of infection.
While mRNA vaccines have yet to be approved in Europe for this age group, evidence from Pfizer in the United States shows the vaccine reduces infection by 90.7% in this lower age population.
In Northern Ireland, their Department of Health has confirmed 1,228 new cases of the virus; with, sadly, a further 7 deaths of patients, latter who had previously tested positive for Covid-19. There are 395 Covid-positive patients in northern hospitals, 39 of whom are in intensive care.
Please do continue to keep yourself and your family safe by regularly washing your hands and wearing a mask when appropriate.
  
- Professor Vincent Cunnane was addressing the 1,570 graduates at the TUS Conferring Ceremonies held in the TUS Gaelic Grounds.
- More than 4,500 people gathered in the purpose-built outdoor arena in the TUS Gaelic Grounds.
More than 1,500 graduates of the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS) made history today Tuesday and and will again tomorrow, Wednesday (November 9th & 10th, 2021) by becoming the inaugural graduates of Ireland’s newest Technological University.
The Class of 2021, including six PhDs graduates, from across the university’s Moylish, LSAD, Thurles, Clonmel and Ennis campuses came together at TUS Gaelic Grounds to receive their parchment, with a further cohort graduating from the Athlone campus, two weeks previous.
Over 4,500 people in total gathered at the four ceremonies in the purpose-built outdoor arena in the TUS Gaelic Grounds to celebrate the momentous occasion.
At the conferring ceremony in Limerick, the Chair of the TUS Governing Body Mrs Josephine Fehily acknowledged the unprecedented challenges the class of 2021 faced during the last 18 months.
“The Class of 2021 are, and always will be, the first ever to receive an award from TUS. As the first graduates of TUS, I hope you will remain fiercely proud of your alma mater and work with us to collectively advance the Midlands and Midwest regions for all who live and work here, as we move towards a post-pandemic life – a life which feels as if it will be different somehow.”
In his address President of TUS Professor Vincent Cunanne asked graduates to stand independent and strong against pandemic disinformation by drawing on their education and their experience over the last year and a half.
“The latter part of your journey through college saw you face challenges which were unknown until their emergence. Your graduation is a further mark of your achievement and your resilience, something that my colleagues and I wish to recognise and congratulate.
“But of course, with experience comes responsibility. You, the Class of 2021, with your unique experience, bear a particular responsibility to apply your knowledge and resilience to better your world.
“In recent times, we have seen the emergence of what is sometimes referred to as the pandemic of disinformation – the ignoring of fact and the dismissal of those with expertise. This is played out in many aspects of life and fuelled by the ubiquity of online engagement.
“Your responsibility is to stand independent and strong against this pandemic of disinformation. Just as you have prevailed through the Covid-19 pandemic, so you will prevail in this one, because you have been taught to think critically, you have been taught to use facts and you have been taught to apply logic. You have proved your ability in this regard, and you have succeeded in adversity.“
Vice President Academic Affairs and Registrar Ms Marian Duggan also paid tribute to the graduates’ resilience and congratulated them on being the inaugural graduates of TUS.
“The conferring of academic awards is the highlight of the academic calendar and a special occasion for our community, but this year is unique and you, the class of 2021 will always occupy a particularly special place in the unfolding story of TUS,” she said.
The Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS) will host its first ever outdoor graduation ceremony at TUS Gaelic Grounds on tomorrow Tuesday and on Wednesday (November 9th and 10th, 2021).
During four ceremonies across two days 1,571 students will graduate from the Faculties of Engineering and the Built Environment; Limerick School of Art and Design; Applied Science and Technology and Faculty of Business and Humanities.
As many as 4,500 people will attend over the course of the graduations, with 1,200 students graduating in person, supported by family and friends, while a further 371 people will graduate virtually, with the historic ceremony streamed live on the TUS website, tus.ie.
The transformation of TUS Gaelic Grounds into the venue for the 2021 Conferring venue has taken weeks of preparation and teamwork between TUS and the GAA. Over five days, a special stage has been constructed and the Mackey Stand transformed into an open air arena.
President of TUS Professor Vincent Cunnane said the decision to move off campus for the first time to the TUS Gaelic Grounds was made to allow people gather together, as safely as possible.
Professor Cunnane said; “We wanted to bring the graduands together again, and we were not afraid to create a new precedent in order to make that happen safely. This is a unique class which has had an unprecedented experience of higher education. No graduating class in the history of Irish Higher Education has seen more changes and more uncertainty. Indeed, no other class has had to make the transition in the latter part of their studies from on-campus college life to a virtual one, but these graduands did.“
“The very fact that the TUS graduations are taking place in a unique location is the product of a partnership between TUS and a community-based organisation, the GAA, with creative and critical thinking and a lot of hard work bringing the graduations to life. This is our ethic made real”, he continued.
The Department of Health has confirmed 3,161 new cases of Covid-19, over the past 24 hours, here in the Republic Of Ireland .
There remain 498 patients with the virus in hospital, an increase of 20 on yesterday’s reported figures. Of these 78 are in our intensive care units, an increase of 3, also based on yesterday’s figures.
More than 52,600 third booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been administered to people under 60 years, latter who are immunocompromised, the latest HSE figures confirm. It is estimated around 90,000 people in this group are due to get the booster dose.
Patients on hospital waiting lists within the Irish Republic, must now continue to wait, while the number of people in hospitals with Covid-19 remains high, the President of the Irish Medical Organisation, Dr Ina Kelly has confirmed. She stated that every bed that is taken up with Covid, is a bed denied to the nearly one million people suffering with other forms of illness on waiting lists.
In Northern Ireland, a further 1,028 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed, down from 1,035 cases recorded yesterday.
In all, a total of 284,231 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Northern Ireland, since the pandemic began.
Today, there are 378 patients with Covid-19 in Northern hospitals, down from 380 confirmed on Friday. There are 44 Covid patients in intensive care units in northern hospitals up from 43 recorded on Friday.
Sadly, 11 more Covid-19-related deaths have been reported in Northern Ireland today, bringing the total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic to 2,762.
Worldwide, total known Covid-19 cases have reached at least 250,049,045 in number, with the total death rate due to the disease standing at least at 5,052,494.
Please do continue to keep yourself and your family safe by regularly washing your hands and wearing a mask when appropriate.
“Now the court square’s just a set of streets,
That the people go round, but they seldom think
‘Bout the little man that built this town,
Before the big money shut ’em down
And killed the little man.“
Remember in the weeks coming up to Christmas, when shopping, use locally owned businesses rather than foreign or nationally owned outfits; more money remains in your local community, because locally-owned businesses continue to purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farmers.
Often forgotten, is the fact that the unique character of the Thurles local community, is defined mostly by the businesses that reside here and same plays a factor in our overall satisfaction, with where we live as a community and the value placed on our homes or other properties.
Nationally, small local businesses are the largest employers of a labour force. On the jobs front, our Tipperary politicians of all parties, and our local councillors have lamentably and continuously, down through the years; let us down, in their direct actions taken without the consent of their electorate. They forget that the more jobs that exist here in our local community, the less people that are going to have to commute, which means more time and less traffic and pollution, something so far forgotten in discussions at COP26.
Let us all stop and think about the ‘Little Man’ and ‘Think Local’ when Christmas shopping here in Thurles; if at all possible.
Read the Lyric’s – Listen to the song and Support Thurles
Little Man
written by Singer / Songwriter Alan Jackson
I remember walkin’ ’round the court square sidewalk,
Lookin’ in windows at things I couldn’t want.
There’s Johnson’s Hardware and Morgan’s Jewellery
And the ol’ Lee King’s Apothecary.
They were the little man,
The little man.
I go back now and the stores are empty,
Except for an old coke sign, dated 1950.
Boarded up like they never existed,
Or renovated and called historic districts.
There goes the little man.
There goes the little man.
Now the court square’s just a set of streets,
That the people go round, but they seldom think
‘Bout the little man that built this town,
Before the big money shut ’em down
And killed the little man.
Oh the little man.
He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass.
And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat.
The new store came, where you do it yourself,
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf.
Forget the little man.
Forget about that little man.
He hung on there for a few more years,
But he couldn’t sell slurpees
And he wouldn’t sell beer.
Now the bank rents the station
To a man down the road
And they sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes.
There goes little man.
There goes another little man.
Now the court square’s just a set of streets
That the people go ’round, but they seldom think
‘Bout the little man that built this town,
Before the big money shut ’em down
And killed the little man.
Oh the little man.
Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip.
You can buy the whole world in just one trip,
And save a penny ’cause it’s jumbo size
They don’t even realize
They’re killin’ the little man.
Oh the little man.
Now the court square’s just a set of streets
That the people go round, but they seldom think
‘Bout the little man that built this town,
Before the big money shut ’em down.
And killed the little man.
Oh the little man.
It wasn’t long ago when I was a child
An old black man came with his mule and his plough.
He broke the ground where we grew our garden
Back before we’d all forgotten
About the little man.
The little man.
Long live the little man.
God bless the little man.
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