www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... The global prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents increased by 244·0% between 1990 and 2021. ..Without immediate action, around a third (746 million) of the world's children and adolescents are expected to be living with overweight or obesity by 2050.

€3,000 a month for a fancy flat above a Chinese take-away - in fairness, the Chinese is really good it was our local when we lived in Dalkey- but go home Dublin you are drunk www.daft.ie/for-rent/pro...

Students are the occupational group at highest risk of being raped. @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Absolutely devastating but powerful talk @unioflimerick.bsky.social story of Emily Drouet by her v brave mother Fiona Drouet - Emily took her own life due to gender based violence in Scotland university.

This is an ophthalmic retractor. These retractors are used in eye surgery operations to pull the eyelid up and away from the eyeball. They can be used in a broad range of surgeries, such as lid surgery, Weiss’s procedure and scleral buckle procedure. #TriviaTuesday

Ahh #PancakeTuesday or as I like to call it “scraping bits of hard pancake batter off the kitchen worktops for the next 3 weeks day”

Homelessness hits new high as 100 more children enter emergency shelter www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

Jack retains top spot as the most popular boys' name in Ireland in 2024 while Sophie replaces Grace for girls CSO Ireland

. @coe.int experts on national minorities have urged Irish authorities to improve the situation of Traveller and Roma communities. It underlines disproportionate unemployment and serious health issues among Travellers in Ireland, including a high rate of suicides and mental health problems

As we know, poverty is bad for your health - new CSO figures show deaths among people aged between 40 and 64 from very disadvantaged areas are more than double the number of deaths of those living in very affluent areas in Ireland #speirgorm www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

A piece I wrote a while ago unfortunately still relevant today -#Homelessness is an adverse childhood experience. Research has shown that cumulative adverse events in childhood have a direct impact on life expectancy and physical health outcomes into adulthood. www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

“My children are used to me crying “ www.rte.ie/news/upfront...

I’m not sure if gifts from parents are pushing up prices or if without them nobody could afford to buy a house in the first place? How Ireland’s housing crisis is being impacted by gifts from parents www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...

Man arrested, guns seized after stand-off over repossession of Wicklow home www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Rents continue to rise as availablity of properties worsens again, Daft says www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease. @nature.com amazing advance

Irish price inflation almost doubles in 2024, says CSO www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Around this time five years ago the first case of Covid19 was diagnosed in Ireland and just a few short weeks later life was about to dramatically change for everyone pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Cats, you say

Never fail to be amazed by modern medicine thttps://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0218/1497393-stuart-haxell/

Pioneering surgical approach developed by UL researchers at University Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social has a ‘significant impact’ on the treatment of Crohn’s disease www.ul.ie/news/pioneer...

Roses are red, Violets are blue, A regular verb in the past tense gets a séimhiú

Panel at digital government 2025 conference today in Croke Park…just one female speaker 🙄

I am so jealous of the amazingly organised group of ladies on the train…one of the group is calling out sandwich orders and handing them out…all beautifully pre made at home …sausage on brown, rashers on white…and another has chocolate snack bars for dessert #traintales

It’s official Limerick Junction is the coldest place in the world #traintales

The family of journalism student Joe Drennan have been told that the DPP will appeal the six-and-a-half year sentence handed down to the man who killed him in a hit-and-run incident in Limerick in October 2023

Hi June, you could spare the roses and save a life by donating €5 to buy a month of insulin for a child living in a low income country. The is a diabetes community led global initiative which has been running for almost 10 years. 🥰 x.com/sparearose/s...

FFS There’s an ongoing housing crisis in Ireland young people can’t afford homes nobody can, everyone who can’t afford to buy, rent. So how do we solve it? Remove the only protection some renters have the rent pressure zones and put the fear of god into the hearts of renters 🤯🤯😫

This is your annual reminder NOT to spend the equivalent of a week’s groceries for a family of four on a bunch of red roses that won’t last the week #valentines

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First case of new mpox strain detected in Ireland www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... hear some references sometimes that we have free IVF. We don't. We have a tiny percentage of people, we reckon less than 10% are actually able to avail of free IVF," Ms Fitzpatrick said.

Rare sighting of #Limerick famous two headed dog 😂

Bank holiday vibes a lap full of sleeping dogs. Can’t move or I will disturb them and get arrested for breaking the law

Ah hear lads, literally, lads and more lads!! #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Another really useful #starterpack for anyone interested in libraries, museums, galleries and archives. Wait, this feels targeted... go.bsky.app/HPQsZAu

If you don't know us yet - we are #ECDC - the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and we are here (in the real world) to protect people from infectious diseases. Have a look at our website to learn more! ecdc.europa.eu (and give us a while to find out how BlueSky works ;))

There isn’t a gas camping stove or gas canister to be found in the whole county of Limerick #speirgorm

I can still smell the reek of ‘CK one’ on this bus as I headed out for a night in town after college in UCD in the 90s

Jennifer Carroll-MacNeill is just the fifth woman to be appointed Minister for Health since the office was established in 1947 #speirgorm

Have to give a huge shout out and credit to the brilliant Mary Regan @news.rte.ie for her coverage of the #Dail proceedings/shenanigans over the past 2 days. What a professional she is, an excellent journalist well done Mary and thank you #speirgorm

Meanwhile, confirmation today that Sunday Times political editor Hugh O'Connell, will join the government press office.

What an absolute mess this #Dail is suspended for the second time on the first morning of the first day …..just do the jobs you are all highly paid for #speirgorm