Dara Kilmartin
@DJKilmartin
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@ConorTMcGrane
Wow. This result shows that the people rejected removing the current safeguards for marriage and care and did not want the proposed flawed equivalence of ‘durable relationships’. That’s it.
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Distasteful personal attack by
@MichealMartinTD
on Maria Steen on
@RTE_PrimeTime
..got his facts wrong about her campaigning in the divorce referendum..how to alienate the traditional
@fiannafailparty
voter. So it’s
#VoteNoNoRef24
for me
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@DanielHussey2
Great guy! Open water is totally different to pool swimming….drafting, sighting, current management..and he just gave it a go! If he gets sick tomorrow, maybe we can blame the Guinness.
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Really incredible..actually shocked! An army of 65 advisers paid over €6.7m yearly. How did they get the mood of the electorate so wrong in
#referendum24
? The people behind the power: Who are Ireland’s political advisers and backroom experts?
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It’s 98 years since my grandfather Dr Edward Kilmartin graduated from
@UCDMedicine
. The fourth generation of UCD doctors 🥼 in our family continues today. Congratulations Dr Fionn Kilmartin.
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The realisation that I’m middle aged (or even older) suddenly crashed over me like a wave. My wife just had a dedication for me read out on
@RTElyricfm
. No more delusions.
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The nomination of an EU Commissioner is the prerogative of the Taoiseach. Has anyone wondered why a
@fiannafailparty
Taoiseach would nominate exclusively 2 FG candidates?
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It’s 30 years since I hung up my stethoscope at
#stvincentsuniversityhospital
and I don’t regret for a moment going into
#ophthalmology
and
#retina
. Most went diverse ways, some lost forever, some stars but we got a great start from
@UCDMedicine
that allowed us do any branch
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Any investigative journalist might follow up that hint from Dr Monaghan that a secret group of 19 members of Inst Ob/Gyn met earlier this year and fast tracked an email to government cabinet supporting Yes...with rigged CA and biased Oireachtas committee...stitch up?
#cblive
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This day 121 years ago my grandfather Dr Edward Kilmartin was born here at his family home in Kilteevan, the youngest of 9 children. Scholarships to
@cicsummerhill
and
@UCDMedicine
followed and enabled nearly 50 years of practice as a dispensary doctor and
#GP
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The Royal Victoria Eye & Ear Hospital is the largest eye unit in Ireland. Our annual budget is approx €40 million. We ran a small deficit last year of €1.5 million, under 4% of our annual budget despite a 7% increase in activity looking after a greater number of cataracts, etc
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@PaulTreyvaud
Isn’t the local election electorate supposed to be ‘ordinarily resident’? I’m sure this would not pass a a legal challenge
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@ABBAOfficiaI
It’s irrelevant what Boris Johnson’s neighbours are like, they just recorded his actual behaviour...the point is what Boris Johnson is like.
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@RTEUpfront
@KatieGHannon
No questions about the income she might earn from refugee accommodation/conflict of interest?
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@sarahcareyIRL
I don’t think I’m nasty and I regard myself as a constitutional republican who had a great uncle in the RIC and another great uncle, his younger brother, in the IRA. I don’t think there should have been a state commemoration in the way it was planned.
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Why have none of the main media reported on this statement today from senior obstetricians who stated 'that not one of our colleagues should ever be permitted for using
#8thAmendment
as an excuse for not treating a woman' in response to
@Together4yes
video?
@rtenews
@IrishTimes
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Abortion is NOT a treatment for diabetic eye disease in pregnancy
#together4yes
. Shocking scaremongering. Effective eye treatments by my retinal colleagues and I mean that no pregnant diabetic woman risks blindness. Take eye advice from eye specialists and not Ob/Gyn campaigners
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@thejournal_ie
What an amazing response by
@simoncoveney
to a ridiculous myopic Brexiteer question? Well done for protecting our national interests and those of Irish people living in NI and Britain.
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@annedohertypsy
Puzzled by this reference to accelerated diabetic retinopathy during pregnancy. Termination of pregnancy is never an intervention for this but strict blood sugar/blood pressure control, and sometimes laser..and that's from more than 20yrs experience as a retinal specialist
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This afternoon I answered the door to the first in person canvassing candidate. It was a pleasure to meet
@AontuHelen
and discuss mutual concerns. She said she is getting very positive feedback in
#Blackrock
.
#localelections2024
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Please don’t let fear of
#COVID19
make you ignore sudden loss of vision...please get this checked urgently. I look after retinal detachments which can cause sudden blindness. Early detection and treatment is key.
#retina
#oncallforireland
Please RT
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@Michael_O_Regan
How do you know that Michael? I haven’t heard that stated anywhere. You’re trying to turn attention away from the fact that nobody knows what a ‘durable relationship’ is in strict legal terms unless tested in court…that’s why an unknown term should not be in the Constitution
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@BrigidLaffan
@PhilHoganEU
@MichealMartinTD
@LeoVaradkar
All your points are valid but when an EU commissioner attends a domestic political gathering that breaches public health guidelines then it becomes both a domestic and EU political matter. Efforts of healthcare workers and societal restrictions undermined.
@vonderleyen
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If you're undecided about
#8thref
then don't let health risk scaremongering about blindness and diabetic pregnancy by
@Together4yes
influence you. My colleagues
@eyedoctorsIRL
have very effective treatments for diabetic eye disease in pregnancy...and abortion isn't one of them.
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@JohnJCarvill
The only party that canvassed for a No vote was Aontú who are languishing in the polls. Can a group of Independents and
@AontuIE
provide a real government alternative?
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Great article by obstetrician Prof Chris Fitzpatrick on using the humanities and poetry to develop empathy as part of healing
@UCDMedicine
@ucdpoetry
#artofmedicine
Poetry is powerful healer for both medic and patient
via
@IrishTimes
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@DrEilidhMaria
All it needs is a sharp lawyer and the lack of informed consent..that’s an assault charge at the least.
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@RMcGreevy1301
No, but they are not buying properties there. They are renting and getting paid very well. Rental property is slightly more available and affordable. And it’s the herd and FOMO effect..all my friends are there on ‘gap year(s)’ so I should go too.
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@cilliandoyle87
What a joke Cillian! Being Rose of Tralee and an accomplished horse jockey are what one of the main parties in government have put forward.
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Pre marathon breakfast, plenty there to keep me going!
@dublinmarathon
#marathon
#marathonbreakfast
Recipe from Grainne O’ Keefe , thanks!
@Mae_restaurant
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Today would have been my mother’s 80th birthday. Happy memory taking the first grandchild out for a walk in the pram 22 years ago.
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@ProfPayEquality
That’s a good thread. As specialists we should restrict comments on any medical area that is not within our field of expertise. I’m referring to ED consultants/ immunology scientists etc opining as experts on public health. There is a reason that Public Health is a specialty.
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@DrEilidhMaria
We in Ireland are watching the unfolding PA mistakes in UK healthcare training and management with interest. It doesn’t surprise me that basic physiology, the understanding of how the normal body functions, is not taught properly.
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Fuchsia provides an important nectar source for honey bees in Connemara
#bees
#pollinators
#allirelandpollinatorplan
#honey
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Sailing around Muighinis in a nice gentle breeze, new rigging, hull repairs to a 94 year gleoiteog passing by where she was launched.
#sailing
#galwayhooker
#connemara
#WildAtlanticWay
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Our hospital was built 1897-1904 as a replica of the Royal Netherlands Eye Hospital built in Utrecht 1894, famous for Donders and Snellen. A piece of Neo-Renaissance Dutch architecture in Dublin.
#eye
#eyehospital
#utrecht
#dublinhospital
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Tax returns are booming and now we learn there will be a €13 billion extra from Apple tax revenue. Our hospital is lean and efficient..we were name checked by Minister
@DonnellyStephen
for innovative community integration and development of our new cataract theatres
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@neasa_neasa
Your website states that your background is environment development and design. Dr Paul Moran is an experienced consultant psychiatrist and clinician scientist working in the area of gender transition for years. I think he might be a better judge of quality of a clinical report.
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@YellowpackC
@mir_ocall
No need for these cataract buses.. there is spare capacity within the system if funded appropriately. Cross border private cataract bus trip funding should be used to fund and develop our public eye units
#cataractbus
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For the first time ever, the HSE did not cover the deficit and made us roll it over to this year. Our population has grown nearly 20% over the past 20 years, partic over 65s and there is a massive demand on eye services. We now have to curtail activity with theatre closures
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Bumped into the inimitable
@Oldtonyscott
at the local fish shop. Had such a strong and positive influence on us as
@UCDMedicine
students lecturing us on radiation physics in the middle of the
#Chernobyl
disaster. Great banter, full of questions..like why does it go dark at night?
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Great 2k sea swim with
@WexMasters
this morning. My dog Mac was waiting for me at the end but would spend ages just staring out at the waves anyway. Pure Mac.
#borderterrier
#seaswim
#staycation
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Very grateful to
@ProfFMcAuliffe
and
@RogerMcMorrow
for showing Prof Con Timon and I the new
#COVID19
facilities at Holles St NMH... really helps us at the Eye & Ear Hospital where we and patients have potentially higher risk. Thank you, great collaboration
@IEHospitalGroup
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Prof Coakley was an excellent lecturer accompanied by essential illustrations of anatomical structural relationships. He gave us our introductory initial lecture in Pre-Med, advising any who had come to Medicine to make money to leave now, pointing at the door. High impact.
Great to see a sample of Coakley's line drawings pop up in Prof. Clive Lee's plenary lecture - 'Art & Anatomy'. Prof. Brendan Coakley was Professor of Anatomy
@UCDMedicine
(1962-'88), and his simple anatomical drawings have been treasured by generations of med students!
#IFAA2019
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@IrishTimes
Individual members of NPHET should not be giving media interviews. NPHET’s role is to advise government on national public health emergency issues only. Solo runs like this discredit NPHET.
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Good luck to all the new interns on their first full day today. This year is regarded as an endurance test but it’s mostly learning..even the small stuff is important (over and over)!
@UCDMedicine
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If there’s a 4 day delay in processing swab tests (from swab to result), surely that means a higher false negative rate? Asking for a frontline surgeon who has had to stop on call and defer non elective surgery.
@nvrlucdireland
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@BobbyMcDonagh1
@sarahcareyIRL
I agree and this initiative is entirely consistent with the tenets of the GFA, those in NI who wish to identify as Irish should be supported and given rights equivalent to those living in ROI
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@sarahcareyIRL
Understand your point but don’t agree. Our media are lacking in forensic questioning and follow through for answers of politicians, senior civil servants, etc. Our state broadcaster is over populated by journalists who peddle the government line.
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@josephamadigan
@JaneCStout
@DeptAHG
@BiodCon_ie
@BioDataCentre
@npwsBioData
Did you Josepha not promote the Heritage Act which allowed earlier and later destruction of hedgerows destroying the habitat of countless pollinators and birds?
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@mir_ocall
This isn’t that new Miriam. The links to the novel use of Tocilizumab were outlined by Twitter medics over a week ago referencing Chinese work. Off label but exciting development.
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Well when your Ob/Gyn colleagues are writing public letters asking you to resign and admonishing the ethics of misrepresenting maternal healthcare for political reasons...and you keep doing it on live television, serious credibility issues.
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@Together4yes
Is Peter Boylan really suggesting that a termination is a valid intervention for diabetic pregnant women to reduce the risk of medical complications like blindness? That is completely inappropriate and not the accepted standard of care for diabetic retinopathy in pregnancy
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@IrwinGill
@drmickmolloy
This is one of the biggest challenges for us as hospital consultants..there is no flexibility, locum cover etc. Self isolate or fall ill yourself...the system collapses in fragile ‘bare bones’ cover as it is.
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My honey bees are blissfully unaware of the
#COVID
ー19 pandemic. Such a break to do the first inspection on most over the past week, 1 die out and 1 drone layer from 21 inspected...<10% winter loss. Happy out! Cheered me up whilst waiting for my swab testing.
#bees
#winterloss
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Couldn’t agree more. Absolutely sick of plans, reports, strategies..Hanly 2003, Buttimer 2006, Wren 2017...they all foretold this crisis and told you what to do
@SimonHarrisTD
as MoH..instead of more medical manpower, more beds we get photo-opportunities and media soundbites.
Does this plan include having consultants to work in hospitals and see patients?
Because one could be forgiven for thinking you'd overlooked that part of healthcare.
Fewest consultants in EU. 500,000 on waiting lists.
Plans don't treat patients.
#getonwithit
#CareCantWait
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@declanganley
The same thing is happening with the importation of hybrid honeybees into Ireland. We don’t have a proper system of honeybee heath inspectors and these imports are being brought in with significant risk to our native Irish black honeybee
@nihbs
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Cui bono? Who benefits from the consultant recruitment crisis? Let’s assume that our government have made a deliberate decision not to reverse the 30% payout that caused this? This would be an interesting story
@susmitchellSBP
@PriscillaLynch
@paulcullenit
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@BBCMarkSimpson
Forget about the cynics. Bertie played a pivotal role in negotiating the
#GFA
and developed a good working relationship with Ian Paisley and his family
@ianpaisleyuk
so it’s good to see these connections last.
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Is this the real reason why the new Secretary General of the Dept Health was offered €90k more than his predecessor...to ram through this damaging Slaintecare contract for new consultants?
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So refreshing to hear sound and sensible advice from Dr Rita Doyle, President of the Medical Council
#Marian
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Still en route home via Helsinki for a few hours from running the Tokyo Marathon this day last week which I did for the eye research charity
@fightforsightUK
Worth reflecting on the research projects they fund. In one of my own areas, great advances in birdshot
#uveitis
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@WandaLe48805941
Surprising and inaccurate comment. GEM students are more dedicated, mature and practical in their academic study approach and highly accomplished from knowledge and skills base compared to undergrad peers. With a 2:1 in undergrad degree, this brings an added dimension
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Delighted to hear that our
#uveitis
patients on immunomodulatory therapy at very high risk from
#COVID19
are getting vaccinated at the Aviva today..literally hundreds of them. Great job RVEEH,
@HSELive
@HSEImm
@DonnellyStephen
@CcoHse
#COVIDvaccine
#COVID19ireland
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Training during December for a marathon 9 weeks away can be a challenge 🥹
#marathontraining
#marathon
@WMMajors
@TokyoMarathon_E
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Varadkar rebuked in tweet about hospital appointments...toxic mix of lack of empathy and incompetency.
#carecantwait
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@markhumphrys
@Independent_ie
And FF followed chasing a perceived popular vote also leaving their core voter base.
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I worry about the bystander effect of being exposed to
#COVID
ー19 as a HCW in Ireland. There is no flexibility...we are underresourced for specialty care. Self quarantine may mean no care in essential acute specialty areas like retinal detachment, stroke, trauma, stents
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Congratulations to the
@UCDMedicine
class of 2020. Enjoy your graduation day! Hope some of you might think of Ophthalmology...4 in my class did and it’s a great mix of medicine and surgery, new technology and patient care
@eyedoctorsIRL
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‘If ever there was a panorama capturing the west of Ireland’s beauty, it is the view out to sea from Carna in Connemara’
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@patel4witham
Own your comments and take responsibility for what you deliberately said. Apologise immediately or resign. It is clear that the Irish backstop is an ultimate requirement to protect the rights of NI citizens against the mentality shown by your comments.
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Always curious about the ‘last hurrah’ of old Gaelic Ireland from school history..reckon this might explain. Arrived in the post this morning, gripping Introduction
@neilojim1972
#nineyearswar
#Irishhistory
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@bairbrepower
@deshocks
@MichealMartinTD
@LeoVaradkar
@fionnansheahan
This isn’t about technicalities/government lists etc. It’s about the optics of the head of
@Failte_Ireland
going overseas on holidays in the middle of a pandemic where
#staycation
is the only safe option for us all.
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@EamonnMallie
@POTUS
@InstituteGC
@BertieAhernFF
@OxfordDiplomat
@TedSmyth
@LeoVaradkar
@MichealMartinTD
@RishiSunak
This letter should be framed and displayed in a position of prominence in Stormont..it is the very essence of what made the Good Friday Agreement which is only a starting stone.
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@DrHenryMarsh
I trained and worked in the NHS for 4 years in the late 90s..and did the same for periods in the US, IRL and Aus. The training and organisation were somewhat better in the UK but the clinical patient priority maintained by consultant autonomy with MDT focus better in IRL
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@ProfPayEquality
@Rheum2improve
@IHCA_IE
@IMO_IRL
What a disparaging and disrespectful pejorative term...consultants who are the senior deliverers of care and frontline HCW are termed ‘special interest groups’. Maybe not the right person to help healthcare improvement
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Great inspirational tips listening to
@LindseyHein
interview
@weskorir
, an elite Kenyan marathon runner, politician and local education/healthcare developer, on how to keep motivated for
@ChiMarathon
..it’s all real now!
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Glad I did my first inspection yesterday..5C now, too cold for foraging flights. Not bad, no colony losses but big variance in performance from 4 frames of brood to virtually none with a poorly performing queen and already a supercedure cell
#beekeeping
#nativeirishbees
#honey
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Pointing in close haul force 2 breeze making just over 2 knots in Mweenish Bay. Errisbeg and the Twelve Bens in the distance
#galwayhooker
#conamara
#connemara
#sailing
#WildAtlanticWay
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Great insight into the impact of
#retinaldetachment
by
@SeanMoncrieff
. Really glad the shock and psychological impact, effects on whole family emphasised. Our eye units will always provide timely acute non Covid care
#sightloss
#retina
@rveeheducation
#Ophthalmology
Wishing you a full and speedy recovery
@SeanMoncrieff
Thank you for sharing your experience in
@IrishTimes
. So true we can never take our vision for granted & great to hear you got the timely care needed from eye surgeons
#detachedretina
#cataract
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@RTENewsPaulC
@BobbyMcDonagh1
@rtenews
Interesting to see their previous track record and experience to date? Ireland has not been served well recently by appointing young ministers with little or no experience
#health
#housing
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@ProfPayEquality
@alisonoconn
@IHCA_IE
@RTEOne
@RadioBrendanRTE
@YellowpackC
@Crionaw
@GerCurley
The purpose of taking over the private hospitals seems to have been forgotten..to increase overall capacity to look after very ill patients during the surge which we know now is very unlikely to happen. So now there are empty beds in both public and esp private hospitals.
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A twist on Slattery’s Spaghetti by
@Nigella_Lawson
…Papardelle alla Puttanesca for two for €5!
#italianfood
#italiancuisine
#cucina
#italiancooking
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Very much of its time but the most striking for me is how articulate and mannerly these working class builders and labourers were..products of good basic Irish education system but couldn’t get jobs at home. Very different now.
#OnThisDay
1961: Panorama asked whether Irish immigrants should be freely admitted into Britain when Commonwealth citizens were being restricted.
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@mccarthymt7
No, the whole concept of physician associates is borderline exploitation and gradually undermines the role of doctors. You cannot have an accelerated 2 year program tacked onto any previous discipline and expect clinical equivalence, responsibility or competency to medical school
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It was a great privilege for me to see as an adjunct faculty member at firsthand the new
@UCDMedicine
graduates..the future of Irish medicine is in good hands. Ad astra.
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@Antcon7062
@SimonHarrisTD
@HSE_HR
I’m on call 24th-30th inclusive, one week in 3 throughout the year for past 17 years. That means one week on call every year through what others describe as the Christmas break. Guaranteed to be doing emergency retinal surgery. This demeaning and cheap shot is dispiriting.
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This will bring a smile to many but there could be an Irish version made up too!
@eyedoctorsIRL
@UCDMedicine
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Full on nectar flow with lovely gentle colonies of native black bees headed by locally mated queens
@nihbs
#bees
#nativeirishbee
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Great interactive lectures on exposure keratopathy, optic nerve decompression, Botox use in neuro-ophthalmology, gene therapy for Lebers hereditary optic neuropathy, orbital cellulitis today
@RCSI_Irl
Charter Day
@eyedoctorsIRL
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You’ve put in the hard work Cormac and did a great job as Cathaoirleach
@dlrcc
and representing us as local councillor. You’ll make a great TD.
Nice to be tipped to take a seat for
@fiannafailparty
in Dun Laoghaire by Ivan Yates in the
@NewstalkFM
#GE2020
#CallingIt
podcast.
Great series of podcasts from
@IvanYatesNT
and
@gavreilly
, well worth a listen 👍🏻
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