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Wayne O'Connor

@wayneocillairne

Sunday Independent journalist, Kerryman.
Opinions: my own.

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The Indo Daily with @ShivMagST today looks at the global supply chain logjams and how they will hit our Christmas shopping. There's a familiar Kerry accent in there too talking about Santa (who wears green and yellow where I come from) independent.ie/podcasts/the-i…

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A girl dressed as Joker knocked on our door. Suit, makeup, hair, the works. She had all the theatrics nailed down and bowed for the sweets. Phenomenal. Halloween kicks the shit out of Christmas

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Testing and contact tracing in schools are among new measures being considered. European guidelines recommend: ▪️If two or more cases are found in a class, test the entire class ▪️If additional cases are found, consider quarantining the entire class independent.ie/irish-news/hea…

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Never waste a good crisis: ‘Now is the time to overhaul our schools exams’ - although evolution is probably more likely than revolution for leaving cert reform independent.ie/irish-news/edu…

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After a week talking about Hepa filters, €30m is going to be made available to schools before Christmas to invest in ventilation independent.ie/world-news/cor…

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It's a long time since I was on New Road at school time but given the school buses used to park where this tree landed, and the building in the background is one of four schools on the same street, maybe the weather advice wasn't terrible

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If it's any use, I was banished from the MCGA (Make Cork Great Again) movement for pointing out it was never "great" in the first place #Kexit

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The HSE's lead on vaccinations explains why we are seeing queues, why the system changed and insists the tweaks were necessary. Meanwhile, parents are likely to have to put kids forward as a vaccine candidate if they live with an immunocompromised person independent.ie/irish-news/new…

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I sat down with UL's president Kerstin Mey. She has an interesting background, grew up in East Berlin but never thought the wall would come down. How she handles UL's recent issues may well determine how the new job pans out - she spoke about those too independent.ie/irish-news/fro…

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Well done Niall Hennessy, a 13-year-old who swabbed more than 200 surfaces to help us understand more about Covid. Brilliant work independent.ie/irish-news/new…

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Frank Howe, a fellow Killarney man, is an inspiration. He's battling through a bizarre virus that left him in a wheelchair but has made huge progress recently. Now he wants to eventually return to work