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Website. www .redcross .ie. The Irish Red Cross Society ( IRCS; also Irish Red Cross or IRC; Irish: Crois Dhearg na hÉireann) is the National Red Cross Society for the Republic of Ireland. ( Northern Ireland comes under the aegis of the British Red Cross .) The society was formally established on 6 July 1939 under the Red Cross Act 1938. [5]
The Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1851 [1] ( 14 & 15 Vict. c. 68), sometimes called the Medical Charities Act 1851 [2] and commonly called the Medical Charities Act, [3] was an Act of Parliament passed in 1851 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It granted the Poor Law Commission powers over the dispensary system in Ireland.
The city of Dublin can trace its origin back more than 1,000 years, and for much of this time it has been Ireland's principal city and the cultural, educational and industrial centre of the island. Founding and early history Main articles: History of Dublin to 795 and Early Scandinavian Dublin The Dublin area c. 800 The earliest reference to Dublin is sometimes said to be found in the writings ...
In addition to the public-sector, there is also a large private healthcare market. In 2019 Ireland spent €3,513 per capita on health, close to the European Union average, [2] [3] of this spending approximately 79% was government expenditure. [4] In 2017 spending was the seventh highest in the OECD: $5,500 per head.
Alma mater. Trinity College, Dublin and Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Aquilla Smith (28 April 1806 – 23 March 1890) was a highly regarded medical doctor, numismatist and archaeologist. He represented the Irish College of Physicians on the General Medical Council for almost forty years, and was an authority on Irish numismatics.
The school was founded in 1864 with funds bequeathed by Richard Carmichael. [2] Designed in 1864 as a school of medicine beside the then three northside hospitals (Brunswick, Richmond and the Hardwicke). Built at a cost of £6,000, the school opened in 1865 and, though it flourished for a time, the competition of the city centre medical schools ...
At the core of the modern-day group is the old Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, the ancient institution established by royal charter in 1783. Bank of Ireland has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the ...
The Medical Council ( Irish: Comhairle na nDochtúirí Leighis) is the regulator of the medical profession in Ireland. It maintains the register of medical practitioners licensed to practice, and has the power to place restrictions on or revoke such licences, in cases of questions about a doctor's fitness to practise.