The Latest Breaking News from Mercy

‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023

Friends of Brazilian woman 'beaten to death' in Cork pay tearful tribute: "She's an ocean away from her family, and they'll never get to see her again."

Bruna Fonseca was attacked shortly after she returned to a Leeside apartment following a night out with friends from the large Brazillian community in Cork.

Irish Mirror · Jan 2, 2023

Woman found killed on New Year's Day had only recently moved to Ireland

Brazilian-born Bruna Fonseca had only recently moved to Ireland in search of a fresh start

Wales Online · Jan 2, 2023

Isabella Manfredi, Tumbleweed and Sollyy: Australia’s best new music for October

Each month we add 20 new songs to our Spotify playlist. Read about 10 of our favourites here – and subscribe on Spotify, which updates with the full list at the start of each month

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2022

Navy ships temporarily not welcome in Solomon Islands ports, says Honiara

The Solomon Islands government puts a moratorium on all navy vessels entering its ports, saying it needs to review approval requirements and procedures.

ABC News · Aug 30, 2022

With Paul McCartney headed back to Baltimore, one Beatles fan remembers when ‘lightning’ struck during the band’s 1964 visit

BALTIMORE — Mary Meyer was sitting in her shorthand class at Mercy High School in Northeast Baltimore one Monday morning nearly 58 years ago when something happened that she still calls one of the biggest thrills of her life.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Mothers' Lawsuits Claiming Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center Interfered with Parental Rights Can Go Forward

The claims arise out of “UPMC’s purported disclosure of their confidential medical information to [child protection authorities] for the purpose of targeting them with highly intrusive, humiliating and coercive child abuse investigations starting before taking their newborn babies home from UPMC’s hospitals shortly after childbirth.”

Reason · May 24, 2022

North Belfast primary school among first to use immersive technology for pupils

"It’s only been installed for a month, but already we have seen the benefits of the Cubbie"

Belfast Live · May 3, 2022

Man sentenced to prison for derailing train near hospital ship at LA port in pandemic’s early weeks

LOS ANGELES — A former train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was sentenced to three years in federal prison for intentionally derailing a locomotive near the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy in 2020, prosecutors said.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 14, 2022

Chicago Fire Department ambulances are once again taking patients to Insight Hospital after being turned away for a year

Those ambulance rides stopped about a year ago — in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic — during a dire nursing shortage in the ER of the Bronzeville hospital, formerly known as Mercy Hospital.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 24, 2022