Family receive more than 100 iPads after appeal to help the sick during Covid-19 lockdown

Hundreds of offers of iPads have flooded in to a mum-of-five who appealed for extra IT to give to people dying in hospitals without loved ones due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

The family of a palliative care doctor has appealed for iPads and computer tablets to help the dying stay connected to loved ones while in hospital under Covid-19 visitor restrictions.

Dr Eóin Tiernan and his son Jackson, 8, donated IT to bring to the hospital.