Beau Donelly

Aug 3, 2024 | thetimes.com | Beau Donelly

Three days after arriving home in Ireland last November, Professor Jean O’Sullivan received a text message from a colleague in Zambia, where she had just finished running an emergency medicine workshop. A 22-year-old builder had been admitted to University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka with a collapsed lung after being hit by a truck. The doctor told O’Sullivan that she had successfully performed her first chest drain on the man.

Jul 27, 2024 | thetimes.com | Beau Donelly

Clergymen in medieval Kilkenny had to get rid of their mistresses after 30 days and were banned from playing football on a cathedral’s grounds, according to an almost 700-year-old book. The Red Book of Ossory — an ancient manuscript that has survived wars and plagues and contains the earliest documented account of distilling whiskey — has been returned to its Kilkenny home after seven centuries.

Jul 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | Beau Donelly

Irish teenagers are selling content on the adult subscription site OnlyFans because they get no money from their parents and it is “easier” than getting a job, a children’s charity has said. The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) stressed that teenagers who reported using the video-sharing platform made up just a fraction of calls to its 24-hour Childline service.

Jul 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | Beau Donelly

The founder of a group representing more than 200 women with a chronic disease often misdiagnosed as obesity has said they are being failed by the Irish health system and forced to seek surgery abroad. AnnMarie McGoldrick set up Lipoedema Support Network Ireland as a resource for people suffering from lipoedema, an incurable condition mainly affecting women, which is characterised by an abnormal build-up of fat.

Jun 29, 2024 | thetimes.com | Beau Donelly

The broadcasting legend Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh and the veteran journalist Tommie Gorman were laid to rest in their respective home counties of Kerry and Sligo. Ó Muircheartaigh’s funeral mass heard that the renowned GAA commentator was like a “grandfather” to the nation. His coffin was draped in the green-and-gold Kerry flag as it was carried into St Mary’s Church in Dingle. Ó Muircheartaigh died in hospital last Tuesday, aged 93. He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.