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The Last End of Saxon Sally
Dr Garrett FitzGerald At the next junction, Dr Garrett FitzGerald decided to turn left into North Tipp to get his Saxon-speaking sat nav fine tuned and recalibrated to a more local and lively dialect....
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Tales from the afterlife
High Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnoise.Pic: Brian Kelly/Getty Continuing where he left off last week with his modified sat nav, Dr Garrett FitzGerald visits the land of his mother’s people, and...
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A head of the game
Pic: saintho/Getty Dr Garrett FitzGerald laments the loss of open, free-flowing Rugby that allowed little guys like him to get involved, as well as worrying about the long-term risks of a more forceful...
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Destination banana republic
With ‘Lanigan’s Ball’ ringing in his ears, Dr Garrett FitzGerald believes the outcome of HIQA’s report on UL Hospitals will be a big new ED terminal building in Limerick but no planes on the tarmac....
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A strange life among the cerebral cortices
Researchers at the Cortical Unit in Waterford carrying out their unusual brain experiments It’s often strange what you’ll see watching a hologram from the various cortices being experimented on at our...
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A service for yesteryear, available today
We need modern computers, but are stuck with old adding machines.Pic: Ron Hohenhaus/Getty Unlike professional rugby, our emergency departments are run by amateurs, our best players are sent to other...
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Is nothing sacred any more?
Our inheritance is so much richer, whatever the flaws. Pic: LuckyBusiness/Getty Images Dr Garrett FitzGerald examines the recent Enlightenment in medicine, religion and society as a whole, which has...
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Steps forward in human understanding
In order to get the graces and the cert (Compostela), you must do at least the last 100 kilometres Garrett Fitzgerald on the ‘insights gained’ and the great good to be had from undertaking pilgrimages,...
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Preparing for winter… yet again
Rule one to survive oncoming winter: Move to Oz.Pic: Getty Images The rules are simple, says Dr Garrett FitzGerald, and you can apply them every year: very cold weather in winter plus respiratory...
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A man of some standing
Dr Garrett FitzGerald Dr Garrett FitzGerald examines the life of work of the great Dr Hunny O’Neill, who was ahead of his time in advocating an ‘upstanding’ existence, which is now recognised as a way...
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A sad spectacle of the Health Service Executive
The HSE will never ‘up its game’ and provide a 21st-Century service until it is challenged to do so by breaking up its failed monopoly once and for all, argues Dr Garret FitzGerald. Looks like the HSE...
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A holiday spent waiting for Lari…
Our correspondent in a cloudy Algarve, Dr Garrett FitzGerald recounts his run-in with some dubious looking floaters in the hotel swimming pool and wonders whether airlines should set a surcharge for...
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News update from the Cortical Institute
Also seen were many St Cecelias and any amount of long-haired lads with white frocks and wingy things. A new arrival at their research lab in Waterford gives Dr Garrett FitzGerald and his colleagues...
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Firing a bullet at food fads
To mark the traditional New Year detox diet craze, Dr Garrett FitzGerald believes all recent health-related food fads should be taken with a pinch of salt — particularly now that moderate salt intake...
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Surprise winter comes again
There is clear and irrefutable knowledge that there is no room at the inn. Pic: Getty Images Reeling from the completely predictable chaos in the emergency departments this month, Dr Garrett FitzGerald...
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The Blame Game over ED trolleys
After almost 40 years of a worsening trolley crisis in our emergency departments, Dr Garrett FitzGerald believes the excuses from our politicians and health managers are as pathetic and inept as ever....
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Where love stories begin
It’s difficult to think of many silver linings to the current ED overcrowding crisis, but Dr Garrett FitzGerald retells the tale of one elderly couple who contracted a multi-drug resistant love bug...
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Some day over the rainbow
Dr Garrett FitzGerald on the never-ending wait for someone to come up with a sensible — and workable — ‘great escape’ plan for the overcrowding crisis in our emergency departments. Emergency...
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Von Ryan’s Expressions
Despite our concerns, he told us irritably that he was ‘all rocking fight’ Dr Garrett FitzGerald recalls his stink in the Alpine clinic where the Chief of Medicine Günter Von Ryan was afflicted with...
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Inspiration and know-how
He had a lot of deranged stuff on his mind — I can’t wait to get his cortex into one of our jars; the thought videos will be something else Back at the Cortical Institute in the South-East, Dr Garrett...
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