This afternoon.
Sandymount Strand
Love Hate’s Johnny Ward ‘launches’ LloydsPharmacy Heart Health Hubs, as part of its charity partnership with the Irish Heart Foundation.
60 LloydsPharmacies are now Heart Health Hubs, focusing on “cardiovascular risk assessments, lifestyle advice and blood pressure checks”.
No free balloons.
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Save Poolbeg.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt applies its no-nonsense balanced approach to matters carnivorous. To wit:
Over the last few years eating meat has increasingly been associated with health risks, like heart disease, cancer and an early death. How unhealthy is meat really?
Previously: Does Your EU Vote Matter?
This morning.
At the Grangegorman Primary Care Centre in Dublin.
Minister for Health Simon Harris and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar hold giant-sized cardboard ‘medical cards’ to launch the Budget 2019 changes which come into effect this week and next week.
Changes include a €10 reduction in the monthly Drugs Payment Scheme threshold from €134 to €124; a 10 per cent increase across all GP visit card weekly income thresholds; and a reduction in prescription charges from €2 to €1.50 for all medical card holders over the age of 70.
Meanwhile…
Those living on the streets, in tents, in hostels, in hotel bedrooms will be delighted. Those sharing bedrooms with strangers bcoz that’s all they can afford will celebrate. Those in debt & struggling to survive will have a party. You’ve destroyed the futures of many Irish people
— alanzfsmith (@alanzfsmith) March 25, 2019
Yesterday
The Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, North Great Charles Street Dublin 1
John Connors, Christy Moore and Bressie helped launch a position paper on Traveller Men’s Health. Research shows that men in the Travelling community suffer more from depression, low self-esteem and discrimination.
The Pavee Point organisation wants a national strategy to address the suicide rate among the male Travelling community, which is almost seven times the national average.
Research published a decade ago showed Traveller men’s lives were 15 years shorter that the overall male population in Ireland. Pavee Point says there is nothing to suggest that has changed.
Call for strategy to address male Traveller mental health (RTÉ)
Meanwhile….
The Traveller advocacy group Pavee Point has welcomed the news that Taoiseach Enda Kenny has resolved to support the recognition of Traveller ethnicity.
Mr Kenny said on Wednesday that the Government would begin taking steps towards the recognition of Traveller ethnicity in the new year.
The Taoiseach said he had asked Minister of State at the Department of Justice David Stanton to prepare a report for the social affairs committee on the question of recognising Traveller ethnicity. The report is expected in a few weeks.
In fairness.
Pavee Point welcomes recognition of Traveller ethnicity (irish Times)
Rollingnews
Jim Wells MLA
Behold the new NI Minister for Health Jim Wells.
He replaces Edwin Poots.
What can we expect?
Delighted to accept 24000 postcards supporting my amendment to Justice Bill. 1000s also returned to Justice Committee pic.twitter.com/QUmPR9KHlY
— Jim Wells (@Jim_Wells_MLA) September 18, 2014
Jim pictured with Bernie Smyth of Precious Life [above] in their efforts to stop the Marie Stopes clinic performing abortions in NI.
@vixenswc I am opposed to any procedure that leads to the killing of the unborn child.
— Jim Wells (@Jim_Wells_MLA) August 24, 2014
@vixenswc Totally support reproductive advice as long as it does not promote the killing of unborn children.
— Jim Wells (@Jim_Wells_MLA) August 24, 2014
Alarmed to learn that teaching creationism has been branded as extremist in England.
— Jim Wells (@Jim_Wells_MLA) August 8, 2014
Well done to the Christian Institute for their strong backing of the family firm who refused to make a pro gay marriage cake.
— Jim Wells (@Jim_Wells_MLA) July 25, 2014
What could possibly go wrong?
Previously: Some Men’s True Hate
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(H/T: Ringos Dove via buzzfeed)
