Fab!

It is National Infertility Awareness week - a week to acknowledge the impact of infertility on millions of people around the world. An appropriate time to share the programme for the Locating Loss conference, which will take place @unioflimerick.bsky.social on 27 May

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Shouting at the radio #morningireland when Simon Harris said "geography does not matter" in a country ruled by postcode lotteries.

Robert Watt to become head of Dublin city taskforce High profile civil servant Robert Watt is set to become the head of the body tasked with rejuvenating Dublin city centre.

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Delighted for him 👏👏👏

Patrick Freyne: Here’s why AI is making us dumber and more lonely Writing forces people to resolve internal contradictions and confront their own bullshit. It’s why it’s hard. It’s why it’s beautiful

I wrote about why we should keep reading and writing

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Ugh. 😡

Terrifying!

Solidarity with the wonderful @eileenflynn.bsky.social shocking to read about the horrid abuse she has experienced.

Experiences of primary healthcare staff in Europe when caring for asylum seekers and refugees: A scoping review protocol. - HRB Open Res 2026 hrbopenresearch.org/articles/9-38

Understanding what shapes patient and family experience of the open disclosure process in the Irish healthcare context: a qualitative study with @aoifedb.bsky.social and colleagues #patientsafety #opendisclosure doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Sarah Moss: The unshed tears of men with big trucks are costly indeed How different would Ireland have been this last century if the tears of women were a national emergency?

Finally www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

At home with the parents and watching #faircity who are covering the deeply pressing matter of prison overcrowding with poor old Paul Brennan in jail on a floor mattress

Scientists sound alarm as Atlantic current system much more likely to collapse than thought Collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas

www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/0...

Encore: What I learnt about Australia as an Outback GP - ABC listen When Sonia Henry signed up to work as a GP in a remote mining town in the Pilbara, the experience changed almost everything she believed about Australia. An unfortunate romantic entanglement just bef...

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... amazing interview

Máire Treasa Ní Cheallaigh: Carroll MacNeill should cartwheel into hospital HR offices and ask about staff retention How do you think the doctors working overtime felt when Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill dropped by St James’s Hospital in Dublin on a recent weekend?

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Reading West Kerry live the campaign to staff Dingle Community hospital continues.
Also new Killarney community hospital not opened due to staffing..

More of this please 😆

Great!

Be great to track the how are we going to fix our gender pay gap problem in organisation plans -if any 🤷‍♀️

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RCSI has launched a new free online CPD course, Just and Learning Culture in Healthcare Contexts.

The new programme is designed for healthcare professionals at all levels who want to strengthen patient safety through open reporting and supportive cultures.

Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4x48hvu9

124 people died while homeless in 2022 - HRB 124 people died while homeless in 2022, according to figures released by the Health Research Board.

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Michael Lowry, Gillian Toole and Barry Heneghan all vote confidence in the government; Michael and Danny Healy-Rae both go overboard

The genderd nature of this cost of living clash is wild “growing men cry” “lorry men” etc what about our majority female carers who don’t have time to express emotion and when they do are ignored #ireland #speirghorm

Totally agree

Got an awful bollocking at home

Jeepers 🙄