Covid

On this week's episode of Basically... Stefanie talks to a close friend of hers who is a nurse, and will remain anonymous because she works in a private hospital but is generous with her time and insight. They talk about how things started…

It's a Basically... mailbag this week and Stefanie answers your questions. There are questions about things like change, alternative careers, adventures and holiday destinations, Covid-19 restrictions and friendships during the pandemic and…

Due to a severe shortage of COVID tests, some patients opted for strange measures. The Covid testing site based deep in the Courtown forest, was just one of many strange consequences of the coronavirus crisis, and gained national news…

On this week’s Basically… Stefanie talks to Newstalk's Tech Correspondent Jess Kelly about the new Covid Tracker App. What should we do if it tells us we've been in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with Covid-19? What does…

On this week's Basically... Stefanie talks to immunologist Luke O'Neill again to get a Covid-19 update on where we are now. What's the latest on a vaccine or a treatment? Should we be wearing masks? Should the pubs reopen? The schools?…

Pj gives out to Suzanne again. We need to be afraid of everything now. PJ gets a McDonald's but Suzanne, despite her joy at the news, has a few issues with how he went about it. Kanye West is running for president, which is great news for…

The Behavioural Vaccine is back for season 2! And this time we're going to be looking at how behavioural science can help solve every day problems. Before that however, we check in on how we all are, after lockdown, back in the game! ?

If someone in the near future asks me ‘What was your main memory of Covid-19?’ I’ll know exactly what to say. ‘An ingrown toenail.’ Ok, not exactly a near-death experience in this truly unprecedented time, but developing an ingrown…

This week on Dubland: Suzanne has watched the Jeffrey Epstien documentary which was just fuel to the fire. The lifting of some restrictions was good, but everything else is terrible. All that is to say that she's as bad as PJ in this…

It might not have been loud enough to hear, but a subtle half-time whistle blew over the past week. Three months into the biggest behaviour change project Ireland has ever participated in, we discarded our jerseys and took a breather.…