RTE need to give us a show with Paudie and Wilkin travelling round Ireland sampling croissants in rural coffee shops. #TraitorsIRL

This is why we fund science.

This is the issue that spurred leading cancer patient advocates from across Ireland to unite and form UCAN Ireland. 🇮🇪 cancer patients deserve timely access to best treatments but are left far behind our european counterparts. Our drugs reimbursement system needs urgent review.

‘It is awful to tell someone that if they had health insurance they could have these new treatments’ – calls to end cancer ‘drug divide’ in Irish healthcare buff.ly/Xk9Pv1x

It was lovely to speak to Ashley Dalton MP about living with incurable breast cancer and challenging misconceptions about the disease. The health minister is currently writing a new National Cancer Plan - while having chemotherapy herself. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

Rescued chimpanzee thanks Jane Goodall by giving her a hug

This is a feckin' AMAZING story.

Words to live by by Patrica Routledge ♥️ ..... "I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin

Almost 75% of Ireland’s radiation machines need to be replaced, group finds irishtimes.com/health/2025/10…

A touching nod to Patrica Routledge in Taylor Swift's eponymous "Life of a Showgirl", released just hours after she died. I love little unexpected coincidences like this #thankyouforthelovelybouquet💐🧡 youtube.com/watch?v=slUhVT…

RIP Prunella Scales. Your portrayal of Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers will forever be iconic

Immense news! 🦾

My piece in Sunday Irish Independent today deals with the issues discussed in Episode 4 of my pod “Second Opinions with John Crown” wherever you get your pods.

"This could not possibly be my life". Beautiful writing in The The New Yorker by Tatiana Schlossberg ♥️

Please sign the Action Network Transparent Pledge by Transparent Action. You can sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tran…

Join me in signing this petition to make more cancer trials available for patients in Ireland. Trials save lives, save the health service money and progress scientific research. Add your name via the link here cancertrials.ie/cancer-needs-t… @CancerTrialsIreland #IrelandNeedsTrials

Congrats to Aoibheann Daly, 4th year, on winning the 2026 @stripeyste Young Scientist of the Year! Her project, GlioScope, uses AI deep learning to predict genetic mutations in brain tumours from MRI scans reducing the need for invasive biopsies and revolutionising brain cancer.

At the launch of Cancer Dashboard for Ireland. Insightful contributions from the wonderful Miriam Staunton & Prof Kennedy. Prevention & patient partnership plus investment most important. More details 👇