Some 1800 blood donors from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have been tested for the antigens A A1 B H; M N Ss Henshaw; C c Cw D Du E e Ce; Wra; P1; Lua; K k Kpa; Fya Fyb; and Rd (Radin). The results are compared with those already available for Ireland and an attempt is made to interpret them in terms of populations movements. With the exception of the high O frequency in the West...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Northern Ireland has the highest standardised mortality ratios for colon cancer in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland has some of the highest mortality rates for cancer in the world. The aim of the study therefore was to investigate trends in colorectal cancer in the north and south of Ireland over the period 1950 to 1984. DESIGN The study was a cohort analysis of ...

Acknowledgments Members of the NeuroExercise Study Group (in alphabetical order by name). Dr. Justine A. Aaronson, Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Dr. Vera Abeln, Institute of Movement and Neurosciences, German Sport University Cologne, Germany; Dr. Jurgen A.H.R Claassen, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud University Medical...

In her article "The Image of Ireland in Iberian Galicia in the Early Twentieth Century," Anne MacCarthy explores Galician intellectuals' relationship with Ireland in their attempt to create a Celtic imaginary for Galicia which would act as a cultural fortification in the face of centralizing forces of Castilian Spain. In periodicals prominent in the 1920s, Nós and A Nosa Terra, the wish to cons...

1 Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 2 Institute of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, St James’s Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 3 Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Sir Patrick Duns Research Laboratory, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 4 School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, The C...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the differential impact of comprehensive and partial smoke-free legislation on smoking cessation. This study aimed to examine the impact of comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation in Ireland and England, and partial hospitality industry legislation in the Netherlands on quit attempts and quit success. METHODS Nationally representative samples of 2,219 a...

James Archibald (Brigham Young University, USA) Riccardo Bellazzi (Università di Pavia, Italy) YangQuan Chen (Utah State University, USA Ruey-Kei Chiu (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Dewar Finlay (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) Reed M. Gardner (University of Utah, USA) Tianzi Jiang (Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Science, China) Eamonn Keogh (University of California R...

Viral encephalitis (VE) and viral meningitis (VM) have been notifiable infectious diseases under surveillance in the Republic of Ireland since 1981. Laboratories have reported confirmed cases by detection of viral nucleic acid in cerebrospinal fluid since 2004. To determine the prevalence of these diseases in Ireland during 2005-2008, we analyzed 3 data sources: Hospital In-patient Enquiry data...

This paper takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the current debt crisis in Ireland. It briefly reviews Irish economic performance from 1980 to 2008 and in particular the Celtic Tiger years. The paper looks at changes in the Irish money supply and its contribution to the Irish housing bubble and the subsequent economic problems facing Ireland. An estimate of the negative wealth effect i...

Soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) account for 1% of adult and 7% of pediatric malignancies. Histopathology and classification of these rare tumors requires further refinements. The aim of this paper is to describe the current incidence and survival of STS from 1994 to 2012 in Ireland and compare these with comparably coded international published reports. This is a retrospective, population study base...