- 'People used to call me the wibbly wobbly wonder'
Shane Mullins’s world fell apart after a car crash seven years ago. Now that he has pieced his life back together, he tells JOHN HEARNE , he wants to help other people face up to seemingly impossible challenges
- Positivity is no trivial pursuit
Far from being a simple distraction from solving your problems, positivity is crucial to survival in the face of adversity, writes MAUREEN GAFFNEY
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- Dental union withdraws support for State scheme
THE IRISH Dental Union has withdrawn its support for the State’s public dental scheme and called for a new scheme to be developed, in a move that could see some public dentists stop carrying out services for medical card patients.
- VHI's acting chief to receive €50,000 more than new cap
THE GOVERNMENT has approved a salary for the acting head of the VHI which is almost € 50,000 a year higher than the cap it set for a new chief executive.
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- A healthy recipe for office boredom
A QUARTER of office workers suffer chronic boredom and the ways they cope with it can be bad for their physical and mental health, according to new research.
- Driven to the brink by the will to win
Repetitive exercise routines, lonely training camps and financial insecurity all combine to put pressure on athletes’ mental health, writes JOANNE HUNT
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- Examining the doctors
New on-site practice assessments of doctors’ performance will put in place improved safeguards for patients, writes DR MUIRIS HOUSTON
- 'I trusted that I would be fitted with a safe implant. That's not what I got'
Up to 1,500 women in Ireland have breast implants made by the French firm PIP. Three of them tell PETER McGUIRE of the
worry, frustration and embarrassment they have experienced since problems with the implants were exposed
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- Body event's ethics just don't stack up
MEDICAL MATTERS : I SEE the Human Bodies exhibition is back in town and if my inbox is any indication, it is causing some unease. Personally, the show bothers me almost as much as it did in 2009, when it first visited these shores.
- Read this, your happiness depends on it
THAT'S MEN: DRIVING OFF to get a computer fixed a couple of months ago (well, to get the guy who “repaired” the computer to fix the repair), a thought struck me while I waited in a traffic jam: my happiness does not depend on this.
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