“The three of the most Googled searches for the vaccine in Ireland all involve phrases such as ‘controversy’, ‘side effect’ and ‘is it safe?’”
A Trinity professor has criticised the lasting impact that fearmongering online has had on the Irish …
HSE
USI launches harm reduction campaign targeting users of psychoactive substances
The campaign comes in light of figures showing consumption levels in Ireland are highest in Europe
The Union of Students of Ireland (USI), in cooperation with drugs.ie and the Health Service Executive (HSE) have launched a new campaign targeting people who consume new psychoactive substances (NSP). The harm reduction campaign was launched in the Institute of …
A prescription for our ailing two-tier health system
Eóin Ó Murchú explores the roadmap to universal healthcare in Ireland
If you don’t know where you’re going, no road will take you there, or so goes the saying. In 1947 Noel Browne, Trinity graduate of medicine, was scuppered in his attempts as Minister for Health in implementing the Mother and …
Students for Sensible Drug Policy hold conference in Cork over the weekend
Harm prevention, medicinal uses of cannabis and the HSE’s naloxone demonstration project are among the topics discussed at the event on Saturday
Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) chapters of Ireland convened at the Boole lecture hall in University College Cork (UCC) on Saturday. They are calling for change in drug policy and education in Ireland, reflecting the growing number of college …
Listen up, Leo
Caoimhe Brennan sheds valuable light on the harsh reality of dealing with mental illness, and the HSE’s inability to provide adequate treatment
It’s the big things
With the HSE’s “#LittleThings” campaign gaining prominence nationally, Sarah Taaffe-Maguire examines if it really is the little things that make a difference to mental health.
Consultant condemns RCSI “nepotism” and alleged relationship with Bahraini regime
Deputy News Editor
The influence of the Bahrain’s ruling Al-Khalifa dynasty reaches “all the way up to Stephen’s Green, the RCSI and the HSE,” a consultant with the Mater Private Hospital has claimed. Dr Damian McCormack made the …
Who Cares?
Michael Stone
Staff Writer
Care is a word that, over time, has become toxic in the Irish psyche. It has gained the quality of an auto-antonym, now more associated with endemic, institutional abuse than with nurturing and protection. From the …
A certain romance
HSE tells woman with incurable neurological condition that losing her medical card would be her decision
Deputy Editor
In a document obtained by Trinity News of a correspondence made to the HSE by a woman with motor neuron disease, the patient, who is extremely impaired by her ailment, is told that failure to gather …