As the Government aims to clarify who will qualify for the €1,000 bonus for frontline workers, several groups have called on more than just healthcare workers to be included.

Kieran spoke to David Cullinane Sinn Fein TD and party Health spokesperson, Dermot Toomey, President of the Irish Pharmacy Union and Laura Durcan, Consultant Rheumatologist and associate professor at the the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to discuss...

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