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In Oxford dictionary, a choice is defined as “the act of choosing between two or more possibilities.” Keep that in mind as you read the rest of this article. The World Health Organisation has announced that while there is a place for governments imposing legal vaccine mandates on their citizens, these should be used as […]
A country, and a culture, without children, is a country, and a culture, without a future.
Over the last decade, health spending in Ireland has increased by more than 20%. And yet, has the health service gotten appreciably better?
Whats the delay?
A few caveats here: First, Behaviour and Attitudes has consistently found Sinn Fein support higher, and other party support lower, than other pollsters. That does not mean they are wrong, but it is worth noting. Second, they were not hugely accurate at the last general election, though that also does not mean they are wrong […]
In 2019, Sinn Fein tabled a Motion of No Confidence in the then Minister for Health, Simon Harris. Ahead of the Dáil debate and with cringe inducing bravado, Harris took to Twitter to challenge his political opponents. “Bring it on” he tweeted. Well, bring it on they did, and it wasn’t all empty guff and political opportunism […]
Finally, a solution to the impending pensions crisis: Israeli scientists have boosted the life expectancy of mice by 23 percent, in an advance they hope could eventually be replicated in humans. They increased the supply of a protein, SIRT6, which normally wanes with aging, in 250 mice. In peer-reviewed research just published in the journal […]
So how did your lockdown fitness goals turn out? Rubbish? Yeah I’d imagine so. I’d say that’s how the entire country feels. Throughout 2020 and 2021, the gyms were closed for over 200 days, leaving the majority of people to fend for themselves when it came to managing their own health and fitness. Some will […]
The threat that emerging infectious diseases pose to global health and the economy, trade, and tourism never ceases. Pandemics can spread rapidly around the world due to international aviation and transport. As of March 2021, a novel form of pneumonia that first emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and has since been […]
Dulce et Decorum est, Pro Patria Mori, wrote the Roman Poet Horace, at around about the time of Christ’s birth. It’s a famous Latin phrase, which translates to English as “it is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country”. In its time, the phrase was designed to encapsulate the highest form of patriotism, and […]
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]