Tallaght Hospital has refused to state how much it will pay for software that would allow it to produce staff rosters, and has also not stated the cost of transport service tenders that it has awarded. The hospital recently announced that it awarded the software contract to a Dublin based firm but, while it announced [...]
Beware flip-flops and sandals! Never mind the faux pas of wearing socks with these articles of clothing, there is more trouble afoot in the land of casual footwear. CNN has reported on how they could adversely affect your pavement pounders. Not that you’ll get much chance to wear flip-flops or sandals in Ireland this summer!
Call me cynical but something tells me that more money needs to be invested in the ambulance service in Derry. Have a wee look at the Derry Journal to see what I mean.
Recently I was looking through the Lonely Planet’s (aka the wanderer’s Bible) newly updated guide to Ireland. The difference between the Lonely Planet books and many other travel guides is how they are not written by staff writers, or ‘travel experts’, but by a group of people (Irish and foreign) who have spent years travelling [...]
We, the authors of Viscera, have been slow to accept the argument that alcohol (even the tiniest amount, we’re told, amounts to binge drinking), is the cause for all the world’s evil. However, even we accept that you have a problem if you get naked at a beer festival and climb into the bear cage, [...]
A revival of the Hanly debate was inevitable following the general election, which saw three vocal Hanly critics, two of whom were incumbents, fail to be elected. Dr Liam Twomey and Mr Paudge Connolly, both elected on healthcare platforms and both opposed to the downgrading of services at small hospitals, and Dr John Barton, the [...]
‘Grandma still feels draft’ Is the world getting you down? Are you fed up with the eejits, ineptitude, rudeness, exploitation, etc that can confront you on a daily basis in today’s society. Well let me point you to a tonic for the malady that is modern day living. The onion has been around for a [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory to all parents to stop giving cough and cold medication to children under two years of age. The extreme step has been taken so the FDA can reassess the safety of these medicines, which “have been blamed for hundreds of adverse reactions and a [...]
With a sore throat that was shooting pain into my left ear, I went out last Friday night to have a few pints of porter (five, to be exact) at the local GAA club where there was a bit of an auld trad session on. Throat spray was already being administered to fight the pain. [...]
Nurses who prescribe drugs under new legislation should be prepared to face the same medico-legal issues that clinicians face, an article in the most recent issue of Medico-Legal Journal of Ireland states. However the fear of litigation or regulatory sanctions should not discourage nurses who can prescribe from doing so, according to the authors of [...]
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