At our long Covid clinic in the Mater, we became aware that the heart and the lungs repaired themselves, but that Covid also affected the brain, where the damage persisted, writes Professor Jack Lambert, consultant in infectious diseases at the Mater hospital

Placing a 'site of national conscience' at Ireland's last Magdalene Laundry could be a fitting legacy

Like many before me, I’ve spent most of my adult life living and working in London. Although I haven’t been back home to Munster since a wedding in the mid-noughties, I keep tabs on what is happening there, as best I can.