Terence Cosgrave writes that despite the prosperity of the Celtic Tiger era, we still need major improvements made to our health service. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be on the agenda of any of the social partners. The Celtic Tiger was a strange animal — only visible to a certain section of the population. [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at a Supreme Court case in which the Medical Council sought to overturn a High Court order preventing the Fitness to Practise Committee from examining complaints brought against a doctor. Michael Shine, who is now retired, worked as a consultant surgeon at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. He also [...]
I’m not a fan of live stand-up comedy. It’s not that I don’t think it’s funny. I just hate to see anybody bomb, or lose it, or forget something. I can’t relax; I’m always waiting anxiously for some heckler to shout, ‘You are not funny!’ or for some racist meltdown such as Michael Richards’s ‘’You [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that doctors should carefully consider whether or not they should provide medical services at sporting events. The phone calls will start coming in again soon to doctors throughout the country. Can you be our team doc? It’s not much work and sure its great fun getting out again with the ‘lads’. [...]
Dr Garrett FitzGerald advises that we should take some time to smell the roses in retirement — and wonders if certain GAA umpires ever reach the end of their officiating lives. All the best psychologists and rural soothsayers are in agreement that life would be immeasurably enriched by the allotment of time to rose-smelling (Rosa). [...]
Ed Madden, BL, looks at the Supreme Court’s decision that the Minister for Health exceeded her powers under the Health Insurance Act 1994 when she introduced a risk equalisation scheme to the private health insurance market. The Health Insurance Act 1994 was adopted by the Oireachtas with a view to opening the market for private [...]
Dr Mick Molloy writes that he will have his phone switched off this Bank Holiday weekend and will be ignoring the media’s inevitable coverage of doctors’ salaries during the ‘silly season’. Around this time of slow news every year, one thing is almost guaranteed. Around the Bank Holiday weekend in August, a story will be [...]
The following letter has been sent to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of IDEA. A chara, In the light of the fact that many organochlorine compounds are fat-soluble and not easily biodegraded, they are persistent and bioaccumulative, and bio-magnify up the food chain. They are abundant in our environment, with over 11,000 commercially available [...]
Terence Cosgrave writes that the thorny issue of abortion may be just about to raise its head in Ireland once again — but this time, the debate may be between judges in Strasbourg, which might not be a bad thing. The news this week that the European Court is to hear a challenge by three [...]
What would you say if you were asked how large your head was in a mirror? Would you say that, if you stood very close to the mirror, the reflection of your face ought to be the same size as your face in reality? And would you say that as you withdrew from it, the [...]
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