Book review: Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, by Wendy Wood (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, €17.95)
At Christmas time, the gift of a great book is tantamount to a far-sighted investment in a child’s future outlook, writes Jennifer Stevens
In April 2016, a media storm surrounded the proposed new National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street, with specific regard to its links to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin. In this abridged extract from his new book, In the Shadow of the Eighth: My 40 Years Working for Women’s Health in Ireland, Peter Boylan offers his account of what went on behind the scenes
Mince pies and mortality: cautionary tales from a Christmas casualty ward