A hardware store made Easter egg-stra special for hardworking frontline staff in two major hospitals.
Toolfix in Dundalk, Co Louth donated 2,000 Easter eggs bought by their owner to healthcare workers at Navan General Hospital and Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.
The company stacked their vans high with the chocolate eggs and drove to the hospitals to make the surprise deliveries on Easter Sunday.
A note accompanying their generous gift read: "To the staff working on the frontline. A small token of appreciation for all your hard work."
Toolfix staff member Sean Matthews told The Irish Daily Mirror that frontline workers were delighted by the delivery.
He said:"They were extremely appreciative and shocked, (they) found it a very kind gesture in these tough times."
And there were more joyous scenes at Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda yesterday after the first coronavirus patient admitted to an Intensive Care Unit was discharged.
A video posted on social media shows the patient being wheeled out as staff give him a warm round of applause.
Heroic hospital workers clad in PPE clapped for the man, who remained in high spirits as he thanked those around them for their work battling the deadly virus.
The video, which has around 210,000 views, was posted with the message: “Some well needed good news! Our first ICU discharge during Covid-19 today.
