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Many healthcare workers in Mayo feel they are not getting adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) and fear they are exposed to the possibility of contracting Covid-19 and passing it on to their families and the patients they are caring for, according to Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh.

Hotel and guesthouse owners in Mayo and across the country are calling on Paschal Donohue TD, Minister for Finance, and the Government, to introduce a series of urgent measures to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the economy, including the tourism and hospitality industry.

John Quinn has received instructions to offer for sale No 3 Hynes Yard, Merchants Road, Galway, a first floor three bedroom apartment in excellent condition.

The COVID 19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is “meant to provide an income” for those who are facing “a very sudden drop in income”, so it is “deeply unfair” to exclude people on the basis of age.

Sinn Féin TD for Roscommon/Galway Claire Kerrane has said that the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment is discriminating against workers aged over 66 years, who are being denied the emergency payment.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has urged families to use some of the time in COVID-19 isolation to shop around for the best offers available for electricity, phone, broadband, TV and gas, which could save them up to €1,000 per year.

St. Anthony’s & Claddagh Credit Union have again reopened their doors at the new earlier time of 7am in their Westside branch. This new opening from 7am to 9.30am daily, is to facilitate any frontline staff access to their services before they go to work or as they come home from a night shift. Frontline workers in so many sectors are facing into this pandemic head on & the Credit Union thought this was one way they could help them during this time.

Workers over the age of 66 should be made eligible for the Covid-19 unemployment payment and the acting Government must "stop discriminating" on the basis of age.

The State's frontline workers are "our heroes at this time", and the Government has a duty to "make life as easy for them as possible", and must introduce the long promised childcare scheme.

Town Mayor, Cllr. Frankie Keena, has called for the abolition of commercial rates for all local businesses during the COVID-19 lockdown period.