COVID Lives

Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19,  as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. 

Last week the Irish Government set guidelines for how funeral services should take place, while still adhering social-distancing restrictions during the COVID - 19 crisis. Episode 14 of the podcast looks at what complications might take place by changing the ways to honour the dead, to adhere to new measures. 

Professor Salvador Ryan who is one of Ireland's foremost experts in  the traditions surrounding death and loss is joined by Orla Keegan – Head of Education and Bereavement Services at The Irish Hospice Foundation to give their opinion on grief and the tradition of death in Ireland. 

The Sun’s Digital Political Editor Natasha Clark also joins live from London sharing the latest news surrounding Boris Johnson’s health, as news circulated on Monday night that he had been admitted to ICU in Thomas’ Hospital.

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Hosted by Ian Doyle

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Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. 

Homelessness and housing were the second most important issues behind health in the Irish General Election last February, and now more than ever before, the COVID - 19 crisis is a very precise juncture where these social and political issues link. 

Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin's spokesman on housing and TD for Dublin Mid-West gives his take on the shortcomings of Ireland’s approach to aiding the homeless population during the pandemic. Pat Doyle CEO of The Peter McVerry Trust sheds light at their challenges ahead and substantial wins so far, and Lorna Siggins unveils shocking revelations about several asylum seekers who have been turned away from their accommodation upon release from hospital after positive COVID - 19 diagnoses. 

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Hosted by Ian Doyle

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Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19,  as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. 

Episode 12 looks at the vital role food can play in combating the Coronavirus pandemic, as Sarah Keogh one of Ireland's lead dieticians dissects what foods will help keep the body and mind in the best condition during the extended quarantine period.

We also investigate the logistics that go into supplying food to members of Ireland’s more vulnerable community with Bernardo’s Mary Gamble and Seamus Boland from Irish Rural Link.

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Hosted by Ian Doyle

Music by Psykick

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Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19,  as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. 

As Ireland’s temporarily unemployed numbers reach close to 300,000, this podcast look’s at how renters and homeowners fair in the government’s emergency housing legislation announced late last week. Ian Doyle speaks to The Times Ireland Editions’s Paul O’Donoghue and John Mark McCafferty - Chairman of Threshold, Ireland’s housing charity. 

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Hosted by Ian Doyle

Music by Psykick

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Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19,  as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in growing capacity. 

Contrary to popular speculation, “lockdown” measures were not introduced by the government yesterday afternoon, but plenty of news surrounding healthcare, social welfare and business closures were announced, in another monumental speech from An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.  In Episode 9 of the podcast, The Irish Sun’s Adam Higgins who was at the conference speaks about the finer details of some of these new measures, and when we can expect to hear further news.

We also speak to Early Childhood Psychologist Dr Mary O’Kane about anxiety in the family unit, and how to make “the new normal” more liveable. 

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As Ireland settles into its second full week of restricted measures, and awaits more potential news in the coming days, episode 7 of Viral: COVID - 19 look at news from the wider world, to see what way the Coronavirus is effecting peoples lives on a day to day basis.

Over the past 2 days, we have chatted to six Irish people on six different continents about their own personal experience as well as the restrictions and measures that have been put in place in their own region. 

From Adisa Abba to Buenos Aries, there are very few places on earth the virus hasn’t proliferated at this stage, it is clear from this episode that everyone’s lives have been disrupted in one form or another.

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On episode 7, we are looking at some of the most common personal finance questions our listeners have, as Ireland see’s 58,000 people sign on for COVID 19 unemployment welfare in under two weeks. 

Personal Finance Expert Paul Merriman from AskPaul.ie joins Ian to discuss how we can all be more financially secure in the coming weeks and months ahead. 

In the chat, he looks at the recently announced mortgage moratorium and it's potential caveats, how SME’s can keep afloat while also paying their staff, and whether or not online bank Revolut is on the verge of collapse?

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Viral is a Podcast series following the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity.

As Coronavirus cases rise rapidly across the island post-St Patricks Day, we are going to look at how the virus has seen an increase in racist behaviour towards some of Ireland’s Chinese community in recent weeks

We speak to Chinese Irish artist Jin Yong as well as Brian Killoran, CEO of the Irish Council of Immigrants to get their take on COVID 19 related racist behaviour as well and what actions need to be taken.

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As COVID 19 puts a stop to trade and industry around the globe, the economic impacts of the virus could be felt for years to come. 

Late last week Leo Varadkar spoke about the imminent consequences that the Coronavirus will certainly have on the economy of Ireland and the wider world. 

On episode 5 of Viral: COVID - 19,  we wanted to look a little closer to home and see how a selection of Irish businesses and workers are faring, in the early days of the global pandemic. 

In the episode, we look at a wide array of businesses, SME’s and freelance workers, to try and cypher how the country at large is gearing up for turbulent months ahead. 

Many are now facing a new professional environment for the weeks to come, so we also look at how remote working will play a major role in continuing to function as an economy but also a society.

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