Irish Pharmaceutical Union
8 results

‘People’s habits change quickly... that’s what keeps me awake at night’
- Retail & Services
- May 6, 2020, 10:23
“This is the most difficult six or seven weeks that any of my family have experienced in the business,” says Liam Butler, a third-generation pharmacis(...)

Will it be July or September? Whenever it is, it will be to a much changed world. In China, normality is creeping back. Shops are reopening. Pe(...)

Azure seeks to protect Ireland against medicine shortage
- Health & Pharma
- January 20, 2020, 05:40
Pharma industry veteran Sandra Gannon has set up a new business to tackle supply shortages of common drugs in Ireland. Ms Gannon, formerly the head (...)

Fintan O'Toole: Coveney would take us back to era of lying women
- Opinion
- February 6, 2018, 05:00
It’s time to talk about lying women. About brazen bare-faced female mendacity – and why some people want more of it. In the history of feminine(...)
A shake-up in the medicine dispensing market in offing
- Editorial
- May 19, 2016, 00:00
A proposal by the National Association of General Practitioners for doctors to dispense medicines directly to patients has caused concern among pharma(...)
Medicine shortages
- Health
- October 28, 2014, 14:46
A warning from pharmacists that the shortage of certain medicines in the Republic poses a significant risk to patient health cannot be ignored. Result(...)

Prescription requirement for 20 medicines to be removed
- Health & Family
- May 11, 2014, 19:32
Thousands of patients will be able to get medicines over the counter where previously they had to have a doctor’s prescription, it has been announced.(...)
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Positive thinking is just the tonic for pharmacies boss
- Retail & Services
- September 13, 2013, 01:00
With many in the struggling pharmacy industry in need of a dose of corporate Prozac, you would expect the managing director of the largest chain of di(...)