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KIlKeNNy
PATRICIA MCQUILLAN
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Our 18 th November meeting was sponsored by Kay Walsh from AstraZeneca. Our speaker on the night was our local CNS in
Respiratory, Kate Walsh, from St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny. Kate gave an excellent talk on asthma in relation to current diagnosis and
treatment. She reminded us of the Asthma Society of Ireland Guidelines available on www.asthmaireland.ie.
The Kilkenny Branch finalised a submission which was later sent to the Executive Committee of the IPNA and then sent on to
(among others), Dr Siobhan O’Halloran and Liz Adams in the Office of the Nursing Services Director. The submission concerned the
issue of the non-use of the HSE medication protocols for the supply and administration of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccines by
practice nurses. No reply has been received to date.
It was decided by the branch to hold a meeting before Christmas and so we met in Kilkenny on 16th December. Our sponsor for
the night was Caoimhe from Servier and the speakers came from the Kilkenny Clinic. Dr Claire Moran and Kathleen Chadra RN gave a
detailed and informative presentation on the work of the Kilkenny Clinic which is concerned with infertility treatment, gynaecology,
assisted conceptions, male health, female health and psychosexual therapy. We were reminded to forward our application forms for
membership of the IPNA for 2010 to Tracy.
souTh TIPPerAry
CATHERINE DELAHUNTy
Our AGM was held on 16 th November with a good turnout of nurses on the night. The meeting started with a talk on fertility,
sponsored by Brenda Ward of Bayer Schering, and given by Dr O’Leary. Once again this was a very informative talk which greatly
benefitted the audience. Many thanks to our sponsor and to Dr O’Leary.
Our AGM saw our very capable Chair, Rita O’Carroll, stand down. Many thanks to Rita who did both the Chair’s and secretary’s
job on her own for the last while. Rita, your superb efforts are greatly appreciated by all in the South Tipp Branch. We would like to
welcome in our new officers and we wish them all the best for the coming year.
Donations were collected from the attendees at the end of the AGM in honour of Kathy O’Brien, our recently deceased friend. This
money will be donated to the South Tipperary Hospice.
Hopefully everyone has survived our freezing weather, although we all love a bit of snow, as nurses we are in a position to see the
hardship it has caused. Many of our patients have suffered fractures and falls during the frost but we should also bear in mind the
isolation, loneliness and depression being confined to home has caused in many of our elderly patients. Hopefully now we have had a
thaw, we can all look forward to the spring and a bit of fine weather.
The South Tipperary Branch would like to wish everyone a very happy, healthy and peaceful New year and we look forward to
seeing everyone at our meetings in 2010.
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JUNE D’ARCy
Happy New year to you all. Congratulations to the Mayo branch and Grainne Lynch on the success of the annual conference. All your
hard work was evident in the enjoyment had by everyone who attended.
We had our last meeting on the 4th November. Our thanks to Marie Sheerin, Cow & Gate, for sponsoring our talk by nutritionist
Margaret Byrne entitled, Update in Nutrition.
Our AGM was postponed that night as we were informed of the death of our fellow member, Eithne Sinnott. It was a shock to us
all — whilst we knew Eithne was ill it just seemed unbelievable that she had gone from us. We will miss her greatly — her friendship,
her contribution to the group, her laughter and sense of humour. Our thoughts are with her husband and three children. We would
especially like to thank all of the many branches who sent their sympathies to us. These were passed on to Eithne’s family.
We would also like to extend our sympathies to our fellow member, Elaine Mc Carthy whose mother passed away recently.
We hope to have our next meeting in February. Good wishes for the times ahead.
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