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COVID Lives
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Covid Lives is a podcast series that looks at Irish lives during this extraordinary time in history. The 16 part series will see host Gavin Dowd speaking with people all across the country who have unique and meaningful stories to tell about their lives during the Covid pandemic. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts to get the most up-to-date and relevant Coronavirus information. Produced by UrbanMedia Hosted by Gavin Dowd Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Breaking News In a Pandemic with Alison O'Reilly
They say that journalists write the first rough draft of history. In 50 years, we will be studying today's news reporting to understand how we handled the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final episode of the COVID Lives series, Gavin talks to print and broadcast journalist Alison O'Reilly about the...
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Promoting Self-Care In The Lockdown With Klara O'Leary
In October last year, Klara left her corporate job and embarked on setting up her own business. Care Box Collection allows people to purchase luxury boxes with self-care products for themselves or as gifts for loved ones. In the episode, she tells the story of what inspired her to establish the...
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Helping The Homeless on Dublin's Streets with Brandon O'Connor
Brandon O'Connor is a 19 year-old from Donaghmede with an extraordinary story. He founded Dublin Homeless Awareness - a group which provides food, medical supplies and first responder services to those sleeping rough on the city’s streets. Brandon shares his personal story which spurred him to…
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The Sisters Who Launched a Sustainable Business in a Pandemic
Earlier this summer sisters Maeve and Blaithin embarked on an ambitious project in Cavan town. With the pandemic having made changes to their working schedules, they decided to set up a shop - The Eco Shack. But this isn’t any type of shop - it’s the first of its kind in Cavan. Maeve and Blaithin...
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Sitting The Leaving Cert in a Pandemic With Emer Neville
Arguably it was the lives of students and young people which faced the greatest disruption over the past year. Emer Neville is the President of the Irish Second Level Students' Union. She shares her experience of sitting the Leaving Cert during the pandemic, how she coped and her plans for the...
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Minding Creative Minds With David Reid
The work of the arts sector has been significantly hindered by the restrictions imposed during the pandemic. Musicians, artists, actors and others in the creative industries have faced a cut to their income and fewer opportunities to hone their craft. Last summer David Reid founded the…
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Keeping Ireland Laughing Through Lockdown With Stevo Timothy
Stevo Timothy is an internet comedian from Galway, Ireland. He is best known for his 'Farmer Michael' character, who garnered a substantial audience throughout lockdown. Stevo shares his experience addressing difficult topics using humour. Alongside his comedy, Stevo is also an ambassador for the...
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Life As A University Student With Harry McCann
Harry was a student in University College Cork throughout the pandemic and has been vocal in speaking up about issues facing young people over the past 16 months. He shares the challenges he faced and how he feels young people were unfairly blamed for being responsible for the spread of the…
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Building a Sneaker Cleaning Empire with Kevin Owens
In Transition Year of secondary school, Dublin student Kevin Owens launched his own shoe cleaning business - SneakerCleaner. Kevin now studying Visual Communications in college, didn’t waste a second of lockdown. He invested his free time in SneakerCleaner. They opened a location on Harcourt…
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Bringing The Gym To People's Front Rooms With Emma Murphy
Emma Murphy is a personal trainer from Dublin. During the lockdown, she focused on helping people to maintain their fitness through her home workout programmes. She created a group called the MomSquad, developing a community of mothers who work out at home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
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Starting a Takeaway Business During Lockdown with Leonie Emdadian
In March 2020, Leonie Emdadian and her family were forced to close their restaurant ‘The Italian Connection’. Leonie didn’t rest. Instead, she set up her own food business - From Italy With Love - delivering at-home takeaway boxes. This idea morphed into ‘Glowberry’, her new project, which she…
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Becoming a TikTok Superstar Through Music with Ryan Mack
Ryan Mack is a musician from Kildare and a former member of the Irish boyband Hometown. Over the past 14 months his covers, original songs and duets has led to his TikTok following growing to 1.2 million people. Ryan talks about his overnight success, not being able to perform live since early…
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Giving a US Postal Truck a Second Life with The Coffee Post 1965
In late 2019, brothers John and Paul Blake embarked on setting up a new takeaway coffee business in Dublin. They set their sights on a 1965 Jeep Fleet Van, a former postal van which had been out of service since the 1990s. The van was shipped to Ireland, converted, painted and retrofitted. It has...
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Creating Irish Women in Harmony with RuthAnne Cunningham
RuthAnne Cunningham is a singer-songwriter from Dublin who has penned songs for Britney Spears, Niall Horan and John Legend. In lockdown she embarked on a different project. Bringing together nearly 40 of Ireland’s top female musicians, RuthAnne created Irish Women in Harmony. Their charity…
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Helping a Nation to Cook with Guy Sinnott
Presented with more free time than ever before, many of us took the opportunity to expand our culinary repertoires in the past year. When the first lockdown was announced in March 2020 Guy Sinnott knew he would have a quiet couple of months professionally. He works for MCD Productions, a company...
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Missing Out on The Olympics With Lena Tice
Covid Lives is a podcast series that looks at Irish lives during this extraordinary time in history. The 16 part series will see host Gavin Dowd speaking with people all across the country who have unique and meaningful stories to tell about their lives during the Covid pandemic. Whether it...
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Localised Lockdowns & Learning From British Pubs
Taoiseach Micheál Martin addressed the nation on Friday evening after clusters in Kildare Laois and Offaly saw measures put in place to try and prohibit further infection in the regions. The Irish Sun’s Adam Higgins brings all the latest news around what Ireland’s first localised lockdowns mean…
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Transforming Ireland’s Cities & Our Vulnerable Essential Workers
Thursday night's press conference from The Department of Health in Dublin was one of the more memorable encounters of recent, as Ireland saw its largest spike in cases for a number of weeks, with worrying clusters developing in various work settings as well as a Direct Provision Center. With all...
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How The Pandemic Is Affecting Children & The Government Stimulus Package
Episode 37 of Viral: COVID-19 looks at the effects the pandemic has had on children and young people as well as the ins and outs of the July stimulus package published the Irish government this week, which includes €7 billion worth of economic incentives for businesses and workers. Paul…
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Revisiting Lockdown & Pandemic Ethics
On Wednesday evening Taoiseach Micheál Martin announced the government's decision to stall its current position on the Irish roadmap out of lockdown until August 10th at earliest. The decision did not come as much of a surprise, as in recent days Ireland has seen a worrying trend of increased…
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Ireland’s Complex Relationship With The UK During COVID-19
Episode 35 of Viral:COVID-19 looks deep into what Ireland’s physical and political relationship with the United Kingdom means for our own autonomy and decision making when it comes to COVID-19 policy making. For a number of weeks speculation has mounted on when a “green list” of countries would…
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A New Approach To School
Nearly four months since their initial closure, Schools around the country received confirmation and guidance this week on how they will reopen come September, as new Education Minister Norma Burke released a framework on the logistics battle facing teachers, principles and classrooms in the…
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“Summer Is Not Lost” - Holidays & COVID-19
Only a matter of weeks ago, many across the country believed that it could be Autumn at the earliest, before the prospect of any recreational travel would be feasible. Like many aspects of this health crisis, things move quickly and as has Ireland successfully contained the spread of Covid - 19...
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Can Face Mask Compliance Create A COVID Free Island
Since the beginning of the COVID - 19 outbreak globally, the effectiveness of face-masks and face-coverings has caused widespread debate here in Ireland and internationally. In comparison to other European countries, Ireland has yet to implement mandatory covering in enclosed spaces such as...
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A Second Wave - What Can Ireland Learn From Iran’s Mistakes?
At the beginning of May, Iran (one of the world's worst affected COVID - 19 regions) began to reduce their own lockdown measures, opening up Mosques and public transport systems in a move deemed by many as irresponsibly premature. In the four weeks since, Iran has seen a mass resurgence of the...
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The Importance Of How Science Operates
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the scientific practises of Virology and Epidemiology have come into the daily conversation like never before, with a large majority of the population holding some grasp on the science behind COVID - 19. Shane Bergin is a Physicist & Assistant Prof in Science...
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“A Pink Collar Recession” - Gender Inequality & COVID - 19
The economic and social fallout from the COVID 19 outbreak is still unclear, and the shape in which the global economy is impacted is a continually developing story. Early indications suggest, that unlike the financial crash of 2008, which predominantly affected “blue-collar, middle-aged, male...
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Care Homes During COVID - 19, What Can We Learn After Disaster?
From early on in the fight against the Coronavirus outbreak, the Government’s most challenging issue has been limiting the spread of infection among Ireland’s residential care homes. In Ireland over 840 people have lost their lives to the virus while living in residential care facilities. This...
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Can COVID - 19 Help Us Prepare For The Climate Crisis?
The past 10 weeks, has seen vast global changes in nearly every part of peoples daily routines. The world has adapted how they work, travel and socialise all in a truly effective global effort to limit the spread of the virus. More impressive was the ability for this to happen in such a short…
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The Future Of Air Travel & Holidays
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. On the podcast today we look at the future of airline travel, and what holiday options are available to consumers this year and next. Ryanair, one of...
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Ireland’s Childcare Struggles For Phase One Of Reopening
On Wednesday Katherine Zappone, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs formally announced the government’s plans to begin the phased reopening of childcare facilities around Ireland. As part of the plan, personal from the sector are due to begin working in the homes of Ireland’s healthcare...
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Questioning The Future Of Ireland’s Leaving Cert Exams
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. One of the lingering questions throughout the duration of this crisis, has been what will happen with this years leaving cert students, who in regular...
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Are The Public A Scapegoat For A Lockdown Extension?
Since the beginning of the crisis, the messaging from the government - to the public has been consistent in terms of keeping the fight against COVID going. There has been a huge amount of support and congratulations for the hard sacrifices and determination from the county collectively. This...
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Ireland’s Path To Removing Lockdown
On Friday Leo Varadkar will address the nation regarding what potential measures might be lightened past the 5th of May, as Ireland closes in on its 7th week of Lockdown. As the days draw, closer vast changes are seemingly less likely, as testing and ICU figures are still not close enough from...
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Socialising In A Socially Distanced World - Ireland’s Hospitality Industry
Ireland is now currently awaiting further instruction on reduced lockdown conditions which are due on May 5th but, as we have discussed on the podcast in recent days - these will be carried out on a phased basis. For many, the things that give us the most joy in life revolve around the…
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A Once In A Lifetime Recession
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. Episode 19 of Viral: COVID - 19 looks at the future of Ireland’s economy, as the world prepares for its worst global recession in nearly a century.…
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Why COVID-19 Is Killing UK Citizens At A Much Higher Rate Than Ireland
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. Both Ireland and The UK are living in extremely similar lockdown conditions currently, with schools, colleges and non-essential workplaces closed.…
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Ireland’s ICU Points Evaluation & The Chequered Past of Home-working
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the International world in a growing capacity. Intensive care unit capacity has been one of the focal points in Ireland’s approach to combating the Coronavirus outbreak, and a huge emphasis since day...
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The Global Race To Find A Vaccine
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID 19 as it continues to affect Ireland and the international world in a growing capacity. Today’s episode looked at whether the global rush to find a vaccine for the Coronavirus pandemic is getting any closer to completion. Eilish O’Regan,...
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How False 5G Claims Became So Normalised
Viral is a podcast series looking at the spread of COVID - 19, as it continues to affect Ireland and the International World in a growing capacity. Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak in Ireland, we have faced huge problems with containing the circulation of rumour and speculation,...
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Johnson In ICU & Death In Exceptional Times
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…
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Heightened Pressure For Ireland’s Homeless Services
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…
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Food For Thought - Keeping Ireland Fed
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...
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Ireland's Housing Crisis In The Midst Of A Pandemic
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…
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Why The Public Health System Needs To Change
On episode 10 of the podcast, we look at what the Coronavirus outbreak teaches us about Ireland’s Public Healthcare System, How it differs from general medicine and whether it’s essentially fit for purpose. As a disclaimer, we do not mean Public Healthcare in the sense of Ireland’s public vs...
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Making "The New Normal" Work At Home
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...
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What The Pandemic Looks Like On Six Different Continents
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...
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Minding Your Money During COVID - 19
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...
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A Racist Reaction To COVID - 19
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…
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Will Business Survive COVID - 19 ?
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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Covid Lives is a podcast series that looks at Irish lives during this extraordinary time in history. The 16 part series will see host Gavin Dowd speaking with people all across the country who have unique and meaningful stories to tell about their lives during the Covid pandemic.
Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your podcasts to get the most up-to-date and relevant Coronavirus information.
Produced by UrbanMedia
Hosted by Gavin Dowd
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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