Families whose relatives died in nursing homes during the pandemic have criticised the Covid-19 Evaluation for continuing to ignore their experiences.

While the evaluation held its first public session with expert advisers and academics on Wednesday, it has yet to confirm dates for meeting with families. These were expected to begin in February.

Care Champions, the advocacy group representing dozens of families, pointed out the family meetings are to be in private anyway.

“There is a jarring contrast between the live roundtable for professionals and the private forums for families,” Majella Beattie,Founder of the Care Champion group, said

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On Monday on The Agenda, we spoke to Nuala Donland from Greyhound Action Ireland, who said that Greyhound racing could not survive in Ireland without State subsidy.

Earlier this month, the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments both announced bans on greyhound racing.

Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has said the Government has no intention of doing likewise.

However, the Greyhound Action Ireland spokesperson told us that cutting State funding would have a similar impact.

Nuala told us about how she remains especially concerned about the welfare of the dogs, noting many of them sustain serious injuries every year from injuries sustained while racing, and Nuala joins us on the line now to talk to us some more about all of this.

we were joined Chairman of the Irish Greyhounds Owners & Breeders Federation, Damien Matthews, who is a greyhound owner, trainer and breeder based in Newry - Damien felt that the interview with Nuala on Tuesday was a little one-sided and he is going to give us his thoughts on what was said now.

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A garda crackdown in north Louth on boy racers at the weekend which saw a number of cars seized near the border has been welcomed by Sinn Fein councillor Antoin Watters.

Gardai from the Dundalk Roads Protection Unit put a policing operation in place after observing so-called boy racers “driving in a dangerous manner and placing the public at risk over the weekend along the border

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