President Michael D Higgins speaks to RTÉ's Morning Ireland after the deaths of poets Brendan Kennelly and Máire Mhac an tSaoi | https://t.co/q3v5lTZbPP

Watch: NPHET briefing live from the Department of Health | Read more: https://t.co/WxNS7SbZ4Z

Now, this is a story all about how My training got flipped-turned upside down And I liked to take a minute Just sit right there I'll tell you how I became redeployed in crit care.

Just saying!!

Here’s an update from Dr. Paddy Mallon @HIVTox. We chatted about the vaccine and the light at the end of the tunnel. Don't be afraid to listen. We’re all exhausted. But this is so important and it's facts not just more doom and gloom! Watch and share! https://t.co/HOAft78TVi

I hear we’re due a plague of locusts over the weekend

Couldn’t possibly reveal the sacred secret.... you’ll have to dial to find out!😜

Watching the Fr Ted Christmas special & dialled the priest chat line 0898 333 221 just to see what would happen 🤣

Brilliant 😂

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

WIN dinner and drinks package for 4 at McGowans, Phibsboro, Dublin 7 (Yes, your table will have one of the famous McGowan's ☎️ for socially distant craic!) To enter | Follow @rte and @McGowansPhibs and RT with #BoostMyBusiness **Entries close 6 PM this Friday 4th Sept**

Although so many are rightly angry, #COVID19 doesn't care. It's not fair, but responsibility for suppressing COVID19 in Ireland is back in the hands of us, the wider public. We did it well last time and we need to do it again. I'm not happy...but am still determined we beat this.

The number of #COVID19 cases that we have now in Ireland is substantially more than we were seeing even just a few weeks ago. On average over the past 5 days we have reported 96 new cases. Our 14 day incidence now stands at over 23 per 100,000. 1/12 https://t.co/480rLpJFGy

Get back into the swing this Sat 15 Aug in leafy Dublin with 2 literary walks (& also Sats Aug 22 & 29). Patrick Kavanagh at 12 p.m. (forecourt Lansdowne Hotel, Pembroke Rd) & W.B. Yeats at 2.30 p.m. (Toner's courtyard, Lr. Baggot St). Just €5 per walk. Time for coffee, too!

THREAD: when & where you should wear a face covering. 😷 #COVID19 #StaySafe

Prof Philip Nolan,Chair, NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Group: “We are seeing an increase in the number of reported cases over the last 2 weeks & the R-number is now at or above 1. There is an immediate need for all of us to take care & caution in our decisions & actions.”

Last week Ireland adopted tough additional measures designed to limit the spread of #COVID19. It has been a truly nationwide effort to stop the spread of this virus & to protect the vulnerable. We need to keep it going. We need to #FlattenTheCurve even more than we have.