Taking blood from, or giving a medication into, a vein is a skill. It is something you need to be trained in and then practise hundreds of times to become really proficient. Crucially, it is never something that you have a go at and simply hope for the best. A medical professional prepares to administer phenobarbitone intravenously to a patient's arm. Unbelievably, the man attempting to administer phenobarbitone intravenously to Christa Pike was not in any sense a skilled phl

I admit it, often I was not sure how I felt about capital punishment; was I for it or opposed to it? Today I am clear. My disgust and revulsion towards the death penalty are absolute and clear. It is not something any country calling itself civilised should ever countenance. It is barbaric, and it diminishes all of us. Does, for example, the death penalty reduce homicide, the murder rate in any given jurisdiction? That question is easily answered. All we need to do is take th

I don't know why, but recently I have been thinking about. For those of you who weren't around at the time, most of you, I suspect, Hall's Pictorial Weekly was a series of humorous TV programs broadcast on RTÉ in the 1970's. Devised and produced by Frank Hall, the program concentrated on lampooning politicians. This it did by depicting a meeting of county councillors in charge of a place called Ballinagash. Leading the actors in this satire was Frank Kelly, a pastmaster at mi

Over 50% of men aged 65 to 74 are taking statins daily. This is according to a Google search. The report does not say how many women are taking statins every day, but I can tell you, as a retired doctor, that it would not be much fewer. Lipid-lowering drugs are the most prescribed medicines across the so-called "developed world." Millions, if not indeed billions, consume them daily. This is at an enormous expense to the global economy and to individuals. Lipid-lowering drugs

The Irish Medical Council has 25 members. 12 of these are elected by their peers from the Irish Medical Profession; they are elected doctors, in other words. The other 13, the majority, are appointed by the government; they are non-elected lay people with government affiliations. The 12 doctor-appointed members tend to be conservatives who canvassed their conservative colleagues for votes to be elected in the first place.

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The government will not talk with farmers protesting about the taxes on fuel. Instead, they try to send the army in against them. The army, to their lasting credit, shows considerable reluctance to move against their own people. So what does the government do next? They pepper-spray the protesting farmers. They won't talk with them; they pepper-spray them instead. Pepper-spray is extremely painful and can potentially cause permanent eye damage. This is disastrous. All the gov

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I had to share my good news with you today! The Foxhunter: To Die With Dignity is currently sitting at NUMBER ONE on Goodreads' 'Works of Pure Genius' Listopia list — yes, you read that right. *** NUMBER ONE ! *** Above The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, 1984, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Two radio interviews, and an article this week to promote my new book The Kindest Cut.

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