Child with spina bifida required 34 operations at Temple Street, report finds
One of the children who underwent spinal surgery at Temple Street Children’s Hospital required 33 subsequents visits to the operating theatre, according to a new report.
The detail is contained in a review by experts from Boston Children’s Hospital into spinal surgeries at Temple Street, which has been published by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI).
CHI has also published the internal review it carried out into the service, where one consultant has been referred to the Medical Council.
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- Ireland’s weather today: Dry this morning with good sunny spells and a few isolated showers along Atlantic counties. Cloud will build from the northwest later as rain moves over Ulster and gradually moves south this afternoon. Further south it will stay mainly dry with good sunny spells. A little cooler today with highs of 13 to 16 degrees and a light west to northwest breeze.
- Happening today: The Stardust inquests are set to hear from the former owner of the club, Eamon Butterly. Irish officials are attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
News from around the world
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- Naomi O’Leary: Ireland’s risky exposure to China comes home to roost: The European Commission has begun an investigation into whether to impose punitive tariffs on imports of cheap electric cars from China, which it says are benefiting from unfair state subsidies to the detriment of local car manufacturers.
The Big Read
- Is it time to assess sustainability and nutritional value of food in tandem?: Calculating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of human activities is no easy task at the best of times and working out the environmental footprints of specific foods is also a tricky business, writes Syliva Thompson.
The best from Opinion
- The hidden ways our housing could be making us sick: Good housing policy also means good transport policy, good planning policy, good economic policy and good social policy. But in the drive for an ever increasing supply of new housing we have overlooked a key part of the discussion: good housing policy is also good health policy, writes Lorcan Sirr, senior lecturer in housing at the Technological University Dublin.
Culture and Life & Style highlights
- Ireland’s artists can struggle to make a living. Six explain the art of juggling their finances: There’s a popular belief that being an artist, whether as an actor, musician or painter, is a path to fame and fortune. If only. As prices have been rising, Ireland’s artists have watched their already modest incomes drop.
- ‘Never write to chase trends or give others what you think they want’: Described by this newspaper as “a Dragons’ Den for writers”, the Irish Writers Centre’s Novel Fair each year introduces 12 up-and-coming writers to top publishers and literary agents. As the deadline for submissions to take part in next year’s event approaches, previous winners share their advice.
Today's Business
- Central Bank governor calls for Irish banks to pass on rate hikes to borrowers and savers: Central Bank of Ireland governor Gabriel Makhlouf wants to see “much faster pass-through” of central bank rate increases to Irish borrowers and savers, in order for commercial banks to play their role in the transmission of monetary policy to fight inflation.
- Q&A: How sustainable is Ireland as a data centre hub?: Q: Why are there so many data centres in Ireland? A: While there is no official register tracking the number of data centres in Ireland, analysis by consulting company Bitpower has put the figure at 82 as of June 2023. A: 2019 report by Host in Ireland noted that Dublin is Europe’s largest data hosting cluster, accounting for a quarter of the entire European market.
Top Sports news
- People from good GAA families can have bad characters: What do you think of these days, when you hear someone described as coming “from a good GAA family”? More and more now, I hear that phrase and think – “lawyers are paid enough money to come up with something a little more subtle than that”, writes Ciarán Murphy.
- Ireland’s calm and collected James Ryan focused on Springbok challenge: Ahead of next Saturday night’s momentous Rugby World Cup Pool B clash between Ireland and South Africa in the Stade de France, Paul O’Connell warned the players that the temptation might be to do more work than was needed.
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Letters to the Editor
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That he as first citizen put himself at such direct odds with the Government, again, is simply not good enough. That he chose to do so while wearing wellies in a field in Laois launching the Ploughing Championships simply beggars belief.There are definitely credibility issues but much closer to home.
– Yours, etc,
STEPHEN O’HARA,
Carrowmore,
Sligo.
Podcast Highlights
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Review of the day
- The Maverick by Thomas Harding: A Jewish exile who published Nazis and Nabokov: In an era of ever-consolidating publishing behemoths, the stories of the personalities who shaped the industry continue to captivate. Robert Gottlieb’s 2016 memoir, Avid Reader, covered his time running Simon & Schuster and Knopf; Tony Faber told the “untold story” of his family business in 2019.
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