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• A kind-hearted lecturer at the Gateway Polytechnic helped one of his students carry a crying child
• Lectures were going on when it seemed the child was disturbing its mother, and the lecturer offered to help
• The baby relaxed at the back of the lecturer while he went about the class to the admiration of his students

A lecturer at Gateway Polytechnic has been praised on social media for his kindness to one of his students.

In a video, it was revealed that one of his students is a nursing mother and that her baby was crying during classes.

As a way of helping, the lecturer offered to carry the baby from the mother to allow her to concentrate in the class.

The lecturer, identified as Adekunle, was spotted with…

Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh’s performance for residents at a Co Wicklow nursing home has been called “better than medicine”, as the power of music in care facilities is highlighted this week.

An advocacy group is holding an event, Music Speaks, coinciding with Nursing Homes Week, which aims to highlight the memory-jerking and communicative power of melodies for people living in care facilities.

This will see more than 100 residents in 30 nursing homes singing and playing music for an online performance that will be shared with other nursing homes.

This includes 100-year-old Peig Ryan, a traditional musician and music teacher, performing Peig Ryan’s Polka at St Anthony’s Nursing Home in Pallasgreen, Co Limerick, and Tess Steedman, 98, a resident of Orwell Healthcare in…