April 2012
14 posts
When I’m asked how many children I have I answer three, but I think four. Our second child, Aoife, was triploid, she had three of each chromosome instead of the usual two. This is different to trisomy, an extra copy of a single chromosome, Aoife had an extra copy of every chromosome. A baby with triploid is doomed, almost all miscarry, usually early in the pregnancy. The few that survive to...
The Irish Labour Party can't admit to a mistake!
Today Ruairí Quinn made an announcement about student bursaries and said they would be named after Ernest Walton, I don’t know the details of the bursaries, but I am assuming they are a good thing and I admire Walton and am all in favor of celebrating him. I admit I have mixed feelings about the lionization of Walton, first by SFI and now by the Department of Education when Ireland has poor...
