The government have announced that the lockdown in County Kildare has been lifted with immediate effect. It follows advice from the National Public Health Emergency Team . Philip Nolan is Chair of the NPHET Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group and President of Maynooth University and he joined us on the show.

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