ICU capacity strains as modelling points to a potential surge in Covid patients, we hear from the frontline. Pat was joined on the show by Dr Catherine Motherway, intensive care specialist at University Hospital Limerick, and also for more on today cabinet's meeting Danny McConnell, Political Editor with the Irish Examiner.

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