Mary Barry

Health Policy. Rugby. Politics.

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@Ryanair Any update on FR1169 due to depart Palma at 8h this morning? Departure time now scheduled for 17:16. Passengers in the airport for 9 hours with very little communication or support.

[Trinity St James's Cancer Institute @CancerInstIRE]

July is International #SarcomaAwarenessMonth 💛 Sarcoma is a rare cancer that develops in the bones and soft tissues. Join @SarcomaIreland Patient Information Day on 18 July 2026 at the Maldron Hotel Merrion Road, Dublin 4. Learn from experts, and find support. #SarcomaAwareness

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Paolo Tarantino @PTarantinoMD]

Benefit of adjuvant giredestrant over SoC endocrine treatment was observed irrespective of menopausal status, with a trend towards larger benefit in premenopausal patients. Comparable tox with giredestrant vs AI also seen irrespective of menopausal status (ie unrelated to OFS)

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@CarlowWeather https://t.co/yoBCUuFqAf

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@CalumRaasay @DirkPit11412645 @FearStairLmk Your Irish friends have probably never been there Calum. Thanks for visiting!

[Yvonne O’Meara @yvonneo_meara]

Take a moment and memorise this acronym-BEAT it could save your life on #WOCD26

#BEAT

#NoWomanLeftBehind

[St. Joseph's Doora Barefield GAA Club @StJosephsDBGAA]

Our senior hurling coach Damien Ryan's 12yo son Adam needs a kidney transplant (O+ blood). Help by sharing their appeal to find a living donor via Beaumont Hospital. Every share counts . For more information see link on facebook #KidneyForAdam #DooraBarefield

[Ardscoil Rís Limk @ArdscoilRisLimk]

On 10/02/26, life changed for our friend and colleague Kevin Long. Now his family have organised this fundraiser to raise funds for Brú Columbanus so they can continue to support families like Kevin's family. Please, if you can, support at the link below:

https://t.co/oT95Bb5t14

[Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones @DrGrahamLJ]

Good oral hygiene is associated with a 51% reduction in risk of cardiovascular death (18 year study)

(Turns out the mouth might be more important than we doctors thought)

Janket et al 2023
https://t.co/VwcMfIxjjj

[Target Ovarian Cancer @TargetOvarian]

Delighted to see @DianeForsytheNI highlight #ovariancancer symptoms in the #NorthernIreland Assembly. 46% of women in NI think cervical screening detects #ovariancancer, and only 2% know feeling full is a symptom. It’s vital women have this info.

#OvarianCancerAwarenessMonth

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

I wish I had done even some of these things while I still had my parents. Especially their voices.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Your Parents Are Getting Older.
30 Things To Do With Them Before Time Moves On.

1. Record their voice telling a story. One day that voice becomes a sound you can never hear again.

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@GarryowenFC Great way to celebrate the memory of @DonalLiveLife. Well fought @NenaghRugby and Congratulations @GarryowenFC 🩵🤍🏆

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@BigMaSheep @IrishRugby Conan

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@FooFightersUK Son there tonight for a football tournament... it would be some night away if true @foofighters 😂

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

Hope Mairin reaches her gofundme goal to #HelpRoxanne

[Mairin Nolan @MairinNolaczy1]

Roxanne’s journey is heartbreaking. Every donation brings her closer to the surgery she deserves. Please share her story and consider contributing. Together, we can make a difference! #HelpRoxanne

https://t.co/ucIlS8j3oG

[Christine Campbell @CCampbell162]

My message for today on #OvarianCancer 🩵
#Cervical screening only detects high-risk HPV and abnormal cells in the cervix; it cannot detect ovarian, womb (uterine), vaginal, or vulval cancers.
Educate yourself on the symptoms of other gynae cancers & you could save a life💪

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

Well done Charlie 👏🏼👏🏼

[Ardscoil Rís Limk @ArdscoilRisLimk]

Congratulations to our past pupil Charles Graham who was yesterday awarded a @ucddublin Entrance Scholarship based on his outstanding Leaving Cert 2025 results, pictured below with his parents, Deputy Principal Sheena Butterfield, Prof. Colin Scott, Registrar & Deputy President

[Alex Kesin @alexkesin]

Starting something new: Approved, a biotech podcast I'm co-hosting with Matthew Pech.

Our first episode covers Amylin Pharmaceuticals: the pioneers of the GLP-1 drug class.

[Mary Barry @MaryRob13800773]

@DeirdreFlannell You look beautiful