More than 32,000 adults waiting over a year for physiotherapy and other primary care assessments www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

Good to see coverage of doctor retention/return in the @irishtimes.com alongside a discussion of the possibility of government backed loans/grants for students wishing to study graduate entry medicine.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

Doctors have had to return to work one day after experiencing a miscarriage due to pressures on the public health system, TDs and Senators have heard. www.imt.ie/news/workpla...

Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Ireland’s diaspora strategy: ‘the impression is very much of a strategy designed to sidestep the reality of why Irish people emigrate and how difficult it is to come home’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

More than half of nursing home staff believe that staff shortages are affecting the quality of care residents receive, while more than four-in-five say they didn’t have enough time to provide residents with the care they need, a new survey has found. www.imt.ie/news/staff-s...

Why return of service won’t fix doctor retention: ‘when those retention periods end, the doctors will still leave, because the housing still will not exist and the system still will not work’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

How can examining the way governance and leadership interact across different levels of the healthcare system help improve healthcare? Our new Explain THIS microlearning resource breaks it down, offering a quick, clear guide with practical questions to aid planning. Explore it here: ths.im/3R0AvC4

Wow this is some intervention ….https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2026/0511/1572742-university-hospital-limerick/

There is a way out of our political spiral, and it is thrilling and inspiring. We could have a very different country. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

‘To go into work knowing that I am not able to the best that I know I can do ... that’s heartbreaking’ www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

‘Dr Maya Sharma has been forced to sleep rough in London, having had difficulties in finding work since raising red flags about prescribing practices at South Kerry CAMHS’ www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

Learning is a difficult and slow process. There are no shortcuts. And it is this process (reading, thinking, engaging) that makes analysis itself possible - to suggest that the heavy lifting can be outsourced in this way fundamentally misunderstands, and indeed undermines, the purpose of education.

🚨 The board of the new Children’s Hospital has signalled another major delay in its opening, saying that the remaining defects in the build - of which there are almost 12,500 - are “more complex and increasingly time-consuming to resolve” (🧵)

It is time for greater ambition in medical workforce design, according to Dr Suzanne Crowe https://bit.ly/3OYxuRS @RCSI_Irl @Slaintecare @NDTP_HSE @HDRM_Project @HSELive @roinnslainte #staffrentions #healthcare#staff

“Writing is thinking”

IMO AGM 26: IMO to develop paper on safe medical staffing levels https://bit.ly/4mOTWtq @HSELive @roinnslainte #medicalstaffing

‘Organisations sometimes attribute turnover to bad managers when the deeper cause is an overly stretched workforce’

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

‘AI use will make us all stupider and it will make us feel more alone. Use your words, people. At the end of the day, they’re all we’ve got’ Patrick Freyne www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

“the Irish health services, and the people of this country, are utterly dependent on the contribution of international doctors, nurses and support staff”. @irishmedicalorg.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

‘Seventy-five years after the Mother and Child scheme, provision for a single-tier health system in the Republic remains a work in progress’ www.irishtimes.com/history/2026...

This is quite extraordinary- scientists set a kind of trap for AI chat bots by inventing a fake disease. AI told people it was real and… the deliberately bogus preprints started being cited in peer reviewed literature 🫣 🧪 #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘The world witnessed what happened in Gaza. It’s happening again now. It’s planned, systematic and is happening in plain sight, while a US president threatens civilisational erasure and what’s left of the international order’ @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

Beaumont Hospital paid €1.5m to company in which 20 staff were directors without competitive process

"You cannot disconnect the state of the health service today from what happened to it during Covid." @drkevinfong.bsky.social talks through the latest UK Covid Inquiry findings. Listen to the full interview from the Medicine & Science Podcast - http://bit.ly/4t1BjVR

'all children referred to Camhs have moderate to severe mental health difficulties that require timely assessment and treatment'. www.irishtimes.com/health/2026/...

‘The healthcare systems coped with the pandemic, but only just. On a number of occasions, they teetered on the brink of collapse and only coped thanks to the almost superhuman efforts of healthcare workers and all the staff who support them.” - Baroness Hallet’

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

The US is determined to starve Cuba of the revenues it raises from exporting healthcare workers.

The NCHD taskforce recommendations aimed to significantly improve NCHDs’ working lives. Catherine Reilly examines what has been delivered https://bit.ly/3N7Lt79 @IMO_IRL @HSE_HR @roinnslainte @NDTP_HSE @eyedoctorsIRL

‘How can they put us out on the street?’: Sligo retirement village residents face eviction www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Consultant in Middle East providing online psychiatric care to young people in Kerry

Delighted to see this paper in print. It’s on doctor retention, doctor migration and the challenges of working in a health system under strain academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic... #DrRetention

Justice sure took a long while… apnews.com/article/henr...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why using generational differences to explain workplace challenges may be misplaced. By @marianchenry.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This is crazy- there’s a cut to HSE capital plan this year Rising population, more complexity of care & yet less money going into hospital beds, equipment and IT Dept of Health’s own bed plan says it needs to build 2,900 by 2031 But plans only 143 new beds this year 🙄 labour.ie/news/2026/02...

the north Kerry Camhs report: ‘there is still no full-time consultant psychiatrist for the county, which should have a compliment of four consultants. The gap is being met by “input” from consultants from other regions’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

What can be done to improve shambolic mental health service for younger people in Kerry? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Review finds 209 children at risk of potential harm in north Kerry mental health services

Good to see a focus on health worker emigration to Australia today on @rteradio1.bsky.social www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Why are only 12% of radiographers satisfied with their jobs? High workload and under-appreciation are driving burnout, which may explain why over 300,000 Irish patients are currently waiting for diagnostic scans, writes Mark McEntee @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...