Northern Ireland health officials have warned that “more severe restrictions” may be needed in the North in the next month, and that Covid certs may not prevent the health service from coming under pressure. According to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, Covid cases have risen by 23% in the past week. Moreover, hospital […]
Politicians no longer have to accept the blame for the state of the health service, and can transfer it onto the public instead.
An Irish mother of two has shared her story of spending sixteen hours on a hard chair in Beaumont hospital while suffering the after effects of treatment for a serious infection that left her unable to breathe. Sarah Ryan was admitted to the hospital yesterday suffering from Quinsy, an aggressive form of tonsillitis that can […]
On the one hand, this can’t be right, can it? On the other hand, Dr. Brendan McCann is just applying the available figures to the situation in his own hospital, and the results of that are, well, not pretty: “In a series of private emails before Christmas, the Service Lead in UHW’s emergency department, Dr […]
“The Dáil will return next week”, announced the Taoiseach this morning, which is slightly different from his position yesterday, which was that the Dáil might not, in fact, return next week, because Fine Gael is so ready for a General Election. It’s good that the national parliament is returning for at least one more week, […]
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said that there is now a full scale health emergency in Irish hospitals and that the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, is an “absolute disaster” for the health service. The Tipperary TD said that Leo Varadkar needed to step in and relive minister Harris from the role. Last week, the Irish Nurses […]