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Europe sets new standards for obesity surgery medical tourism
Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons for people to do so called 'medical tourism' – where they travel to another country to have the ...
Obesity surgery tourism—only approved centers should be carrying out recognized procedures, say researchers
Obesity surgery (also known as bariatric and metabolic surgery) is one of the most common reasons people engage in so-called "medical tourism"—where they travel to another country for a procedure ...
Dublin author Fíona Scarlett: ‘A young woman told me to take out that I was a mother in my bio, because it demeaned me and my work’
Partway through Fíona Scarlett’s second novel, May All Your Skies Be Blue (Faber & Faber), one of the central characters, ...
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Joan Baez: “I feel as though I found my people when I came to Ireland and the Troubles”
In Dublin for a screening of I Am A Noise, a powerful documentary on her life, folk icon Joan Baez discusses her first act of ...
‘A man of remarkable presence’: The physician and poet who gave his name to the Sigerson Cup
Lyons wrote that “in his prime, Sigerson was a man of remarkable presence, and lines borrowed from his own Saga of King Lir ...
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Suspended sentence for woman who attacked Wicklow resident in her own home on Halloween
Garda Robert Whelan said that the accused had arrived at the home of Ms Dixon after there had been some type of altercation ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
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Cork TD Thomas Gould opens up about bowel cancer diagnosis and treatment
The Sinn Féin TD received the shock diagnosis three months ago but doctors are very positive about his recovery ...
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Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet of nature and 'the Troubles,' dies at 85
Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...