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The Irish Times Group acquires online death notice platform RIP.ie

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The 2022 HBSC survey found decrease in number of children who have smoked cigarettes (9% in 2022 vs 12% in 2018). However, an increase in the number of 12-17 year olds who reported having used electronic cigarettes in the last 30 days (13% in 2018 vs 9% in 2022). Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

The HBSC survey also reported an increase in the proportion of children being cyberbullied, from 15% in 2018 to 18% in 2022. Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway universityofgalway.ie/hbsc/

Proportion of children reporting feeling v happy with their life, fell from 42% in 2018 to 28% in 2022 . However, timing of the study fieldwork immediately after lifting of pandemic-related restrictions in schools, may in part explain this universityofgalway.ie/hbsc/
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Findings from the latest Healthcare Behaviours in School-Aged Children (HBSC) 2022 report found that 18% of children report ever going to school or bed hungry because there was not enough food at home (19% in 2018). universityofgalway.ie/hbsc/ Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway

Infertility affects one in six couples in Ireland

The research conducted by Dr Eoghan Cunnane at University of Limerick could unlock new treatments to address the growing global issue of male infertility

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#ResearchWeekUL #StudyatUL

You’d have to wonder how bad this has to get.

Two young people killed in crash on A5 in Tyrone via @RTENews rte.ie/news/ulster/20…

Heart attack survival rates in urban areas 40% higher than rural settings, research finds

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A support team to address current pressures on health services in the Mid West has been announced. The team will begin work immediately and over next 4 weeks to help devise actions designed to ease overcrowding and pressures in Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick

HSE team put in place to ease UHL overcrowding via @RTENews- team announced today includes; Grace Rothwell, National Director,Orla Kavanagh Director of Nursing& Integration at Waterford Uni Hospital & retired Emergency Medicine Consultant Dr Fergal Hickey. rte.ie/news/regional/…

Free school lunches are brilliant all kids get fed good food, great options, no stigma because they all get the same and if I’m honest I’m also delighted with it as it’s rare that the squeezed middle get anything for free.

In my honest opinion this is a great scheme hot lunch in recyclable packaging in reusable plastic lunchbox that Smallie reuses every day for small break- Mac’n’cheese or chicken curry: Kids are happy, but free school lunches scheme is a missed opportunity

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Aagggh I spelled it wrong it’s #Seaborne so sorry Nuala O'Connor

I loved Nora so much, the characters still live in my head thanks to ⁦Nuala O'Connor⁩ genius storytelling so I had to buy her new book too, just a few pages in and I am hooked already #seabourne

Aoife Johnston death: ‘Only a matter of time before there is another tragedy’ at UHL, warns local GP

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A wonderful patient advocate 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕡

My favourite poem #PoetryDayIRL ⁦Poetry Ireland⁩

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade
#PoetryDayIRL #WBYeats

Thalidomide survivors are now 60 years of age they have been fighting for a lifetime and their parents before them fought too.