The GPs of Ireland have taken on without demur a load of extra work and danger. With many squirts of the sanitiser we have logged on and played a full and unreserved part in the national plan to contain the coronavirus.

We organised our practices to make it safe for patients and staff. They began to resemble...

In mid-February we felt a comfortable indifference to the impending threat posed by Covid-19. This ‘Chinese’ virus, as US president Trump inappropriately labels it, seemed to be limited mainly to the Chinese city of Wuhan. Similar to previous epidemics like SARS in 200 3 and MERs in 2012, the coronavirus...

People identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) are a sexual minority and suffer significant health inequalities compared to the heterosexual majority.¹ An estimated 1.7% to 9.9% of the adult population identify as LGBT but the validity of these estimates is questioned.¹ The issue of sexual...

The recent Women in Medicine in Ireland Network (WiMIN) inaugural conference in Dublin was a great success, attracting over 100 female doctors and medical students from all over the country.

The idea to establish WiMIN came to me in December 2017, on a whim. I am a big fan of Twitter and spend far too much...

Alexander Fleming was not a tidy man. His laboratory was constantly cluttered with various bacteriological experiments. One day in 1928, when he was tidying up some Petri dishes on which he had been culturing staphylococcus bacteria, he noticed that one of the dishes contained the growth of a curious mould....