February 2021
College President Dr William Flannery writes to the Irish Times to welcome newly proposed legislation that will look to ban gambling advertisement in sports, and to further discuss the need to tackle our ‘hidden epidemic of gambling addiction in Ireland’. Read the letter in full below or on the Irish Times website here. Sir, […]
Calls for enquiry into historical coercive confinement in psychiatric institutions need to extend to our current system, one that stigmatises and ultimately punishes those with severe mental illness. Senior Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Conor O’Neill, Clinical Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry Dr Damian Smith and Clinical Professor of Forensic Psychiatry Harry Kennedy, all of […]
What do psychiatrists have to learn from the processes of evolution? One of many questions on the agenda for the inaugural meeting of the ‘Think Tank’ Book Club. Expanding their long-running book review series, the working group behind the quarterly Trainee eNewsletter ‘Think Tank’ have branched out into a live and interactive forum where trainees […]