Charles Sweeney

| Research Assistant @AnaDomingosLab @OxfordDPAG | UCD GEM 2028 | @TCDPhysiology 2022 |

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

For my first tweet, I want to share some cool advocacy I got up to this year in my free-time pertaining to equality of access to a medical career
https://t.co/cKD96y5fq8

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

The hope would be, that these govt sponsored loans offered much more favourable interest rates then what private banks & credit unions charge for GEM loans (3/3)

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

This new govt sponsored loan, would greatly improve the current circumstances faced by Irish GEM students, which is as follows: Either you have affluent parents who fork out 17-18k per year tuition for 4 years out of pocket OR you get into 68-72k worth of debt with a bank (1/N)

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Graduate doctors could be encouraged to stay in Ireland through a new State-backed loan, which would be offered on the condition recipients go on to work in the Irish health service.

https://t.co/3oMzQmPdjm

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

These tuition costs for Irish citizens are on top of accommodation & cost of living. GEM, a route which accounts for 1/3 of doctors should not be only for the most affluent of students. This loan would increase accessibility to GEM. A huge improvement on the present (2/N)

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

@ItaOKelly @IrishTimes I agree. However, if you're a prospective Irish GEM student and can't afford the 17,000 EUR per year fees for four years straight out of your undergrad, you just never become a Doctor in the first place. Unless you've wealthy parents. This loan will broaden access to GEM.

[Virgin Media News @VirginMediaNews]

Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly says neutrality will be a bedrock of her campaign, adding Ireland has nothing to gain by aligning with 'the big powers' and that our credibility depends on neutrality and speaking truth to power.

📺: https://t.co/zIbZWDwYoh

[Tristram Ryan @tristramryan]

Are you interested in #immunometabolism but not sure where to start?

Introducing our new book “Metabolites as Signals in Immunity and Inflammation”, co-edited with Zbigniew Zasłona (@molecure_sa) and @laoneill111 (@tcddublin), available now.

https://t.co/Wgk4GA0us8

(1/n)

[thomas @anacourseceltic]

The People’s Republic of Dublin South Central has fallen

[Scientific American @sciam]

Scientists reveal the identity of a cannibalized captain from the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848 https://t.co/aI2E1XwH2a

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

This is how close the Israeli 🇮🇱 bombs are getting to UN troops in Lebanon 🇱🇧

Pure intimidation.

The voices you hear in the background are Irish 🇮🇪 troops.

They have no intention of being intimidated.

They stand on the side of the oppressed.

They are soldiers for peace.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

US political advisor steps down after calling for Israel to 'drop napalm' on Irish peacekeepers

Read more: https://t.co/i9FYCCF4TF

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

@dublinbusnews the 142 bus due at stop 1016 at approx 08:24 has not shown up. This is the second occasion this has happened this week. Happened on Tuesday as well leaving me 15 minutes late. What's the story?

[Nature Metabolism @NatMetabolism]

#NatMetabPicks | In @Nature led by @AnaDomingosLab (@UniofOxford):

Sympathetic neuropeptide Y protects from obesity by sustaining the development of thermogenic adipocytes.

https://t.co/RfLUZwXZA9

[Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) @OxfordDPAG]

DPAG's Domingos Group has a new paper published @Nature - Understanding the Biological Basis of Obesity: A Sympathetic Path to Treatment by burning fat https://t.co/PRxp3FZ8VC

[Emma Haberman @Emma_Rose_64]

@AmyShergold @ImmunOBrien For anyone wondering what the *completely sober 👀* 5am @bsicongress poster presentation was about...

Now published in @ImmunityCP ! 🔥

🔗👇🏻
https://t.co/ilVJlmksge

[Emma Haberman @Emma_Rose_64]

Very excited to share work from my PhD project, published in @ImmunityCP today! 📣📣🥳
@OxfordDPAG @AnaDomingosLab

🔗👇🏻
https://t.co/Cn8g4CdK6w

A thread🧵
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[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

Spot on. Recent HEA report showed that only 4% of Irish undergraduate medical students were from disadvantaged backgrounds. Graduate entry medicine in Ireland could be a huge opportunity to socio-economically diversify the Irish medical profession but 17k p/a fees are prohibitive

[Laura Dowling @lauradowling__]

Important article today highlighting Graduate Entry Medicine fees. We have been once again excluded from support in the Budget, as fees for current first years have risen to over €17,000 per year. No access to loans or SUSI grants.
https://t.co/FMF0D9mOnS

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

@SimonHarrisTD @DeptofFHed @FineGael Any measures to reduce Graduate Entry Medicine fees and debt?

More Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) places via new course in Galway is good for diversity in medicine ONLY if supported by closing the funding gap.

Fees of 17k per year, paid out of pocket locks out most students

[Charles Sweeney @Charlie_Sween98]

@SimonHarrisTD with the surplus, is there anything in #Budget2024 to cut Graduate Entry Medicine fees? Alternatively, provide UK style government student loans to GEM students as a pilot programme?
Irish GEM is prohibitively expensive and is why I and many other have emigrated

[Laura Dowling @lauradowling__]

UCD Graduate Entry Medicine fees set to increase for the upcoming 2023/24 academic year to €17,450 from the current €16,290... With no access to loans, how in the world are students meant to afford this? @UCDSU