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Kate King, great-grandmother of CNN’s John King, at the family’s ancestral home in Doonloughan near Ballyconneely, Co Galway.
‘We were glued to it’: John King’s Irish cousin on CNN’s magic election wall

An Irish relative of CNN TV anchor John King says her family was “glued” to his US election coverage and plans to show him around their Connemara ance(...)

The New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in New York, November 6th, 2020. “For the last four years, The Times reporter has been the human incarnation of a nation riveted, like it or not, by Donald Trump,” writes New York Times columnist Ben Smith. Photograph: Benjamin Norman/The New York Times
What will the New York Times’s Trumpwatcher-in-chief do now?

Maggie Haberman lives rent-free in Donald Trump’s head, all over the front page of The New York Times and also in a brick house in an unglamorous Broo(...)

CNN news anchor John King has been one of the media stars of the US election coverage thanks to his ‘magic wall’ interactive election map. Photograph: CNN.
‘It begins in Doonloughan’: CNN’s John King maps his Irish ancestry

Ballina and Carlingford can claim Joe Biden and Doonbeg Donald Trump but Doonloughan in Connemara can join an illustrious list of famous Irish ancestr(...)

CNN’s John King: he is just one Key Race Alert away from being asked to run for our own presidency
US Election: CNN’s John King wins Irish viewers’ votes

Some people will say the definitive moment in the wake of the US presidential election came when Georgia turned blue, or later when Pennsylvania did, (...)

Gillian O’Brien: “It is unusual to go to a general history site and not to be told something about 1916 even though 1916 took place geographically in very few places.” Photograph: Alistair Daniel
Shining a light on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion

Author Gillian O’Brien felt that there was a tendency towards a ‘traditional’ telling of history in Ireland, and set out to find the darkness in he(...)

The HSE had spent €7.5m on ViraPro products, and has purchased 3.8m units. Photograph: Dave Meehan
Q and A: what is this controversy about hand sanitiser?

What is the controversy over hand sanitiser about? Hand sanitisers to be effective are supposed to contain a minimum of 60 per cent alcohol, usually (...)

INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said student nurses are taken for granted. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times
Student nurses and midwives are being exploited says union

Student nurses and midwives are being exploited during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has claimed. It said on Frid(...)

Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry alleged State employees were opportunistic in using the crisis ‘to do nothing’. File photograph: The Irish Times
MacSharry’s public servants critique fails to resonate with Taoiseach

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he does not agree with party colleague Marc MacSharry’s comments accusing public servants of using the Covid-19 cris(...)

Dr Kevin Kelleher, assistant national director of the HSE said on Tuesday that healthcare workers ‘have such a work commitment that they come in regardless, sometimes, of their own health status’.
Health workers reporting for duty while sick during pandemic a ‘big problem’

Healthcare workers reporting for duty while sick during the Covid-19 pandemic is a “big problem”, but is “in the Irish healthcare worker’s psyche”, a (...)

Siobhán Murphy who contracted Covid-19, told the committee that she was unprepared for the psychological impact of contracting and living with the virus.
Staff nurse tells committee of ‘terrifying’ experience of contracting Covid-19

The Oireachtas committee on Covid-19 has heard that health care staff were experiencing burn out, fatigue and post-traumatic stress as a result of dea(...)

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