Niamh Griffin

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Niamh Griffin

An assault with a fire extinguisher, punches to the face, fractured bones, and racist comments were some of the fearful attacks described at the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) conference. They warned a survey revealing 11 daily assaults on average last year was still relevant today. One nurse from Monaghan told the conference the hospital did not have any security.

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Niamh Griffin

The health minister has pushed responsibility for housing nurses onto hospital management, saying the crisis is an issue for everyone and not just public sector workers. Jennifer O’Carroll MacNeill was speaking during the second day of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) conference in Wexford. The conference heard many nurses lived in “inappropriate” housing at extremely high rents and some live two hours or more from their workplace.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Niamh Griffin

More crisis support outside of hospitals for people with psychosis is urgently needed, along with significant expansion of existing supports, a new report has recommended. Psychosis affects how the brain processes information, so a person may find it difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is not. The Psychosis Survey 2024, published on Wednesday, is based on feedback from almost 400 people with this condition and others.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Niamh Griffin

A “clear timeline” is needed from the Government on how reforms to services for children with disabilities will be carried out, Senator Laura Harmon has said. The programme for government commits to “delivering a step change in disability services” and also to “helping children get the therapies they need”. However HSE data, released to the Labour party last week showed children’s disability network teams (CDNTs) are overworked and struggling to get through waiting lists.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Niamh Griffin

The brother of Cian Gallagher who died after an unprovoked assault in 2022 said he always helped people and donating his organs was a ‚Äúreally lovely‚ÄĚ way to continue that. Mr Gallagher was just 26 when he died after being attacked in Tallow, Waterford. His attacker later received the mandatory sentence of life in prison for murder. ‚ÄúCian was always helping people, that‚Äôs who he was,‚ÄĚ his brother Shane said at the launch of organ donor awareness week on Tuesday.