Dr Ruairi Hanley believes a recent debate on the cervical cancer vaccine in a national newspaper was a despicable exercise in political correctness For many years now I have had a love-hate relationship with The Irish Times. I fully accept that it is the best daily newspaper in the country. And although I am constantly [...]
Dara Gantly looks as what we have learned from Prof Brendan Drumm’s recent media interviews
Rory Hafford talks to Prof Patricia Casey about court cases, media mayhem and Mary Harney
Dr Ruairi Hanley argues that doctors are more likely to get a right answer than the notion of ‘patient instinct’ promoted in the recent coverage of misdiagnosed miscarriages I was driving to work when news broke of the latest misdiagnosis crisis on national radio. As I listened to the initial reports, my immediate reaction was [...]
Dear Editor, I would like to thank everyone who attended the recent Society of Irish Medical Writers Meeting in Clontarf. The meeting was very successful due to the excellent input of our guest speakers Greg Baxter, Dr Juliet Bressan, Manchán Magan and Dr Graham Fry. The Aindreas McEntee writing prize, now in its second year, [...]
Laura Finn reports on research which found that girls as young as five are negatively influenced by media-constructed, ultra-thin body ideals Girls as young as five years old have shown to be influenced by an unrealistic and unhealthy body-image ideal constructed by the media, according to Prof Helga Dittmar, lecturer in psychology at the University [...]
The blog of the BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics is always worth checking into – complex treatments of apparently simple problems. In the latest entry on the handling, by the press, of the H1N1 virus, the author questions the role of the journalist with regard to truth. So we can construct an argument about bad [...]
Tom Service, a music critic for The Guardian, wrote an article last week for the Irish Times (well, the Times published his syndicated article) regarding a music venture between Britain’s oldest symphony orchestra, the Hallé, and the world’s most sentimental and dripping-wet rock band, Elbow. Actually, I have to admit something now that will probably [...]
John O’Connor writes that historically, equities have delivered the best long-term performance of any investment asset and offers a guide to international equities Every financial page you open seems to have at least one story devoted to the decline of the equity markets. Globally, the last 10 years have been the worst performing 10 years [...]
Dear Editor, If there was a prize for disingenuity, the person responsible for your front-page article on the Medical Council’s guidelines on the ‘life’ issues should get it without delay! A Millward Brown IMS poll carried out on behalf of the Pro Life Campaign — with which I have no affiliation, by the way — [...]
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