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Sunday 27 September 2020
Merchants Quay Ireland has appealed against the decision by Dublin City Council.
DCC last month refused permission for the the injecting centre.
Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for an injecting facility.
The Council gave its decision yesterday.
Merchants Quay Ireland applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission for the centre last year.
The centre aims to provide a safe, clean environment for people to inject drugs.
A plan to open a medically supervised injecting facility has been met with fierce local opposition.
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The centre would cater for 60 heroin and cocaine addicts every day.
An announcement was due today, but it’s been delayed yet again.
Does the first supervised injecting centre need to be in the city centre? Some business owners say no.
The Ana Liffey Drug Project also wants to develop a Naloxone programme and a crisis detox unit for drug users.
ANY SIGNIFICANT LEVEL of flu in the community could lead to the Covid-19 test and trace system being overwhelmed as people present with similar symptoms, health experts say.
Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry told TheJournal.ie that because flu and Covid-19 both seriously impact on vulnerable and older groups, health officials want to “avoid a twin attack on the same populations” in Ireland.
He said the focus will also be on keeping down the level of flu among those who will not be seriously ill with it, but who may pass it on to those vulnerable groups.
This is why the flu vaccine without charge has been extended to a number of other groups this year, including to children aged two to 12. Previously this applied only to those over the age of 70.
So, today we want to know: Do you plan to get the flu vaccine this upcoming winter?
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