Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Ireland. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Dec. 6, 1921 Britain and Sinn Féin signed an agreement to establish the “Irish Free State.”

A day in history!

"Following two years of conflict between the two sides, the settlement granted Ireland the same status as other Commonwealth nations such as Canada and Australia. The agreement also allowed the six Irish counties in the area known as Ulster to choose whether to be part of the Irish Free State; those counties ultimately became Northern Ireland. On Friday, Ireland voted in a general election that will likely keep power in the hands of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael—the two parties that have dominated the country’s politics since 1922."

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Ukrainian Surgeons Perform Successful Brain Surgery in the Ukraine on 4-year-old Northern Irish Child with rare form of epilepsy

Good news! How to make friends! How to set an example! What a story! What a great effort!

"Rachel Gribben, a four-year-old girl from the village of Killyleagh in Northern Ireland who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy, successfully underwent a complex brain surgery procedure carried out by a team of neurosurgeons in Lviv, western Ukraine. ...

“When we were sitting in the shelter of the hospital with other mothers and children, my heart just broke,” the child’s mother Katie recalled her experience hearing the first air siren after arriving in Lviv, where her child was to undergo brain surgery in a country at war.

According to The First Medical Association of Lviv, the child’s family decided to bring Rachel to the Children’s Hospital of St. Nicholas under the association for treatment following advice from US neurosurgeon Luke Tomycz, becoming the first foreign patient of the establishment. ..."

Ukrainian Surgeons Perform Successful Brain Surgery on 4-year-old Northern Irish Child The girl suffered from a rare form of epilepsy and UK doctors were reportedly unwilling to perform the complex surgery, eventually leading the family to seek help from a team of specialists in Lviv.



Monday, February 05, 2024