Valentina Ní Críonna

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‘I Think I Had That One’: The Pneumococcal Vaccine After 65, and the Last Time Ireland Counted

Ireland recommends one pneumococcal vaccine dose at 65 and has not measured adult uptake since…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 19, 2026

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‘The Hard Part Was Afterwards’: Post-Intensive Care Syndrome After 70, and the Review Ireland Does Not Offer

Irish ICUs discharged 13,130 people alive in 2024, and the national audit stops counting at…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 19, 2026

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‘I Will Think About It’: Thalidomide Survivors After 60, and the Supports Ireland Still Has Not Put in Law

Ireland's thalidomide survivors are now in their sixties, and the late effects of sixty years…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 18, 2026

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‘He’s Grand in the Morning’: Myasthenia Gravis After 65, and the Irish Count That Stopped in 2016

Myasthenia gravis now mostly starts after 65, and it looks like ageing: a drooping lid,…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 17, 2026

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‘Sure, That Was All Long Ago’: The Mother and Baby Institutions Medical Card, and the Clock Running to March 2029

Ireland's Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme includes a lifelong, non-means-tested medical card for anyone…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 17, 2026

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‘He Was Only Lagging Pipes’: Asbestos After 70, and the Five Diseases Ireland Names but Does Not Compensate

Irish safety law names seven diseases asbestos causes. The Occupational Injuries Scheme compensates two. What…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 16, 2026

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‘There’s No Research, There’s No Backup’: PKU After 60, and the Irish Generation Sixty Years of Screening Never Followed

Ireland began newborn screening with PKU in 1966, so the first screened babies turn 60…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 16, 2026

Walkers on a fenced path rising across green clifftop fields on the Irish coast under an overcast sky

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‘He Never Smoked a Day’: Alpha-1 After 60, and the Free Irish Test That Gets Rarer With Age

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is one of Ireland's most common inherited conditions, and the free national…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 15, 2026

Two cups on a white table beside a window in a whitewashed room, with bright daylight falling on the wall

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‘She’s Gone Very Quiet’: Dual Sensory Loss After 75, and the Disability Ireland Agreed to Recognise in 2015

Census 2022 counted 70,443 people in Ireland living with both vision and hearing loss, 15,234…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 15, 2026

A kettle and glass jars on a kitchen counter in front of a clock showing 08:05

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‘He Hasn’t Been Himself Since the Summer’: Chronic Subdural Haematoma After 70, and the Bump Nobody Counted

A slow brain bleed that arrives weeks after a forgotten bump and looks like dementia.…

Valentina Ní CríonnaOctober 14, 2026

‘I Think I Had That One’: The Pneumococcal Vaccine After 65, and the Last Time Ireland Counted

‘The Hard Part Was Afterwards’: Post-Intensive Care Syndrome After 70, and the Review Ireland Does Not Offer

‘I Will Think About It’: Thalidomide Survivors After 60, and the Supports Ireland Still Has Not Put in Law

‘He’s Grand in the Morning’: Myasthenia Gravis After 65, and the Irish Count That Stopped in 2016

‘Sure, That Was All Long Ago’: The Mother and Baby Institutions Medical Card, and the Clock Running to March 2029

‘He Was Only Lagging Pipes’: Asbestos After 70, and the Five Diseases Ireland Names but Does Not Compensate

‘There’s No Research, There’s No Backup’: PKU After 60, and the Irish Generation Sixty Years of Screening Never Followed

‘He Never Smoked a Day’: Alpha-1 After 60, and the Free Irish Test That Gets Rarer With Age

‘She’s Gone Very Quiet’: Dual Sensory Loss After 75, and the Disability Ireland Agreed to Recognise in 2015

‘He Hasn’t Been Himself Since the Summer’: Chronic Subdural Haematoma After 70, and the Bump Nobody Counted

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