Confronting Coronavirus

Confronting Coronavirus episodes:

• 04.06.2020

  The physical and mental challenges facing our health care professionals

  In this episode, we hear from Mary Leahy, the National Coordinator for Nurse/Midwife Safety, Health and Wellbeing. Mary has been instrumental in raising funds for much needed personal protection equipment for health care workers in Ireland. She recently set...

  
• 04.03.2020

  "Our rates of testing will not flatten the curve" - a doctor speaks

  Dr Jack Lambert is a consultant in infectious disease at the Mater Hospital. In this in-depth conversation about Ireland's approach to the coronavirus outbreak, Dr Lambert tells Irish Times deputy editor Deirdre Veldon that testing in Ireland at its current...

  
• 04.02.2020

  Coronavirus in India: 1.3 Billion on Lockdown

  As India begins a second week under complete lockdown, we hear from Rahul Bedi, an Irish Times contributor based in New Delhi. Last week, In his address to the nation, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that if action was...

  
• 04.01.2020

  From Perth to Dublin: an Irish doctor comes home to fight Covid-19

  Dr Zoe Lynch is a young Irish medic who has recently returned home to Ireland to join in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak. As Australia prepared to go into lockdown and airlines began cancelling flights, Zoe set about organising...

  
• 03.31.2020

  Big ideas to save the economy - with David McWilliams and Chris Johns

  What steps do we need to take to protect the economy and give ourselves a chance to bounce back quickly when it ends? We ask David McWilliams and Chris Johns for some ideas. Plus, Cliff Taylor has the latest economic figures,...

  
• 03.30.2020

  "This virus is a lot sneakier than we thought"

  It was another eventful weekend. To help make sense of the reasons for the new restrictions, and to understand how prepared our system is for a surge in cases of a virus that is proving difficult to thwart, we talk...

  
• 03.27.2020

  Coronavirus: a respiratory consultant’s insights

  In today’s episode we speak with Dr. Oisin O’Connell, a respiratory consultant at the Bons Secours hospital in Cork. Dr. O’Connell and his colleagues have been in regular conversation with medical professionals in Italy and China, in a bid to...

  
• 03.26.2020

  Coronavirus Vaccine: How far have we come?

  In this episode, Science and Environment Editor Kevin O’Sullivan brings us up to speed on the latest developments of the coronavirus vaccine. As Covid-19 spreads rapidly across the world, research is taking place at breakneck speed. It is a global...

  
• 03.25.2020

  What do the new restrictions mean for you?

  Yesterday the government announced new restrictions on personal movement and businesses, and also gave details of new measures to help those left out of pocket by the outbreak. What does it all mean for you? We ask Conor Pope.

  
• 03.24.2020

  Coronavirus in the US - with Suzanne Lynch

  Today we talk to Washington correspondent Suzanne Lynch about the growing Coronavirus outbreak in the United States and trace the Trump administration's shifting response.

  
• 03.23.2020

  Coronavirus: a recovered Irish Times journalist's experience

  In this episode, we hear from Irish Times digital journalist Glen Murphy who tested positive for Covid-19 just two weeks ago. This was the first case of coronavirus within The Irish Times and led to a complete closure of the...

  
• 03.20.2020

  Coronavirus in Africa: "we've got two ventilators for 12 million people"

  Today we talk to Sinead Walsh. Sinead was Ireland's ambassador to Sierra Leone and Liberia during the 2014 Ebola outbreak and is currently the EU's ambassador to South Sudan. South Sudan doesn't yet have its first confirmed case of Coronavirus, but...

  
• 03.18.2020

  Why was the UK's response so different?

  First: Cliff Taylor on measures announced today by Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Then: Denis Staunton on the UK's confused and confusing response to the outbreak.

  
• 03.17.2020

  Anxious about Coronavirus? Here's some advice.

  It has been the most surreal St Patrick's Day most of us can remember. Podcast producer Suzanne Brennan talks to psychologist Mark Smyth about how to handle the anxiety many are experiencing as the Coronavirus outbreak continues and intensifies.

  
• 03.16.2020

  How should we prepare for the days ahead? With Conor Pope and Paul Cullen

  A new daily podcast about the Coronavirus outbreak in Ireland, hosted by Irish Times deputy editor Deirdre Veldon. It seems certain that the Coronavirus outbreak is going to worsen int he days ahead, and tougher restrictions may be applied to...

  
• 03.13.2020

  Confronting Coronavirus: The Latest Updates

  Irish Times deputy editor Deirdre Veldon talks to health editor Paul Cullen. - Children are off school, but how much freedom should they have? - A case from the US that tells us a lot about how the virus spreads. - How...

  
• 03.12.2020

  Confronting Coronavirus: Forthcoming from The Irish Times

  A forthcoming podcast that will cover Ireland's response to the Covid-19 outbreak.