Inez Murray

Overjoyed to be a summer research student at @JoslinDiabetes in Harvard Medical School! Grateful to @QUBelfast for their support and generous scholarship. This dream wouldn’t be a reality without the family + friends who have supported me at every step - this is yours🤍 AMDG🕊

the entire country of ireland after jessie buckley became the first irish best actress winner

In a dispute over pay and jobs, you 1. Offered no movement on pay 2. Offered no new jobs 3. Called doctors 'moaning minnies' and 'juvenile delinquents' in the press

When you wait 12+ hours to see a doctor in A&E, remember that 12 other doctors applied to be that doctor and got turned away. Doctors are unemployed and cannot find work, whilst last night ambulances waited 6+ hours outside my A&E to be seen. That is why Doctors are striking.

just hire more GPs!!! why do you consistently refuse to fund the NHS! there are unemployed doctors out there desperate for jobs! they are moving to Australia because they can't work here!!!

People in Belfast have the biggest of hearts and certainly have the capacity to care about several issues at once. It’s frankly insulting to suggest otherwise. As a place that benefited hugely from international solidarity during the peace process, only right we do the same

Ireland have won 100% of the matches played since Cather Connolly became Uachtarán na hÉireann. Coincidence? I think not

Pope Leo on cinema, today at the Vatican, could not be more right (and, dare I say, holy): deadline.com/2025/11/pope-l…

a busy October … finished my first specialty block back at medical school, turned 23, and found out I can now officially put ‘MSc’ after my name :)

I love Ireland

autumn in belfast as the leaves fall down

More than 7 million patients are stuck on waiting lists, yet medical students and doctors are facing unemployment. A recent @TheLancet study predicts the UK will be short of 11,000 consultant physicians by 2048. The government must act now to fix this crisis.

You’ve waited months for your operation. You’ve waited hours in A&E. And yet; thousands of doctors who want to become surgeons and emergency medics are being turned away. In 2025, Emergency Medicine had 5,081 applicants for only 357 posts; around 14 applicants for one post. 5,399 doctors applied for just 630 Core Surgical Training posts; a ratio of 8.57 to 1. These are doctors who’ve completed years of study and clinical training, passed rigorous exams, and are ready to serve patients. But the Government refuses to fund enough speciality training places for them. So while patients lie on trolleys in corridors and operations are cancelled, fully trained doctors are left without a pathway to specialise. This is a catastrophic failure of workforce planning. A deliberate Government imposed cap on doctor speciality training numbers that wastes talent, demoralises staff, and prolongs NHS waiting times. If the Government is serious about tackling long waiting lists and rebuilding the NHS, it must expand funded training posts and use the workforce we already have.

Addressing the competition ratios for specialty training prior to this years application cycle should be a key concern for @wesstreeting. Doctors are exiting medical school unable to progress in their careers and sadly even becoming unemployed. Radical change is needed.

Say good morning to our new medicine laureate Mary Brunkow! 🎉 This photo was taken by Brunkow's husband Ross Colquhoun at 4:30 in the morning, just after she had received the news.

There’s a hidden crisis in the NHS. Fully qualified doctors are being left unemployed because the Government refuses to fund enough training places for them to become consultants or GPs. This year alone, there were 20,000 more applicants than available posts. At the same time, FY1 doctors carrying £100,000 of student debt earn just £18.62 an hour for life saving work. They’re asking for £22.67/hr, not overnight, but over time. The message from doctors is clear; we cannot fix the NHS while the Government blocks doctors from progressing and underpays those holding it together. @wesstreeting now faces a choice; fund training, fix pay, and end this crisis or the dispute will continue.

this Merriam-Webster W 😭😭😭

The internet shutdown in Afghanistan happened in real time in my online poetry class on Monday. The women's accounts dropped out one by one. The last to go was Neda. Just before her image froze, I promised to put her poem on Twitter. She's 11. Online was her last hope of education. @WRNAfghanistan

This is a new low, unique to Northern Ireland. Our colleagues are quite literally being taxed heavily (in addition to income tax) on the inability for Stormont to pay people correctly, fairly and on time.

@DENISEJOHNSTO10 so sorry to hear this Denise, will be keeping you and your family in my prayers ❤️

For the avoidance of any doubt, Paracetamol remains the safest painkiller to take during pregnancy. Yours sincerely, The @DHSCgovuk Minister for Patient Safety