I live in Northern Ireland, where our police are armed and have to check their personal vehicles everyday in case dissident republicans have put a bomb under their car. They know all about 50% of the population being distrustful of you and feeling like targets in certain neighbourhoods.

The fact that Neil Gaiman grew up and married in Scientology, and that his ex-wife and kids are still in always makes me sad.

I know of American brothers called Shawn and Sean (which their parents pronounced See-an), which was awkward when they came to Ireland to visit the “old country”.

And do you think that this *might* have coincided with Irish independence?

Really?

But that is indeed how the Irish celebrate Paddy’s Day.

As a fellow Irish woman in Ireland-are you as confused by the bagpipe bands on Paddy’s day as I am?

This is probably because, like Ant &Dec they aren’t just a professional duo, but are actual real-life best friends.

He was a Doctor when he did that show.

I think he’S busy working 13 hr shifts and being exploited by the NHS...

My gut says T. Hiddy probably prefers dudes. I do not know why my gut says this.

Perineum.

I am a doctor.

I had lots of ultrasounds with both, and we just said going in we didn’t want to know, and then they just don’t look at external genitalia, so it wasn’t like we had to look away from the screen or anything.

We didn’t find out what we were having.

We didn’t find out either time. I guessed wrong twice, so it was definitely a surprise (we have one of each). I had two planned C-Sections, so the date and time of the birth wasn’t a surprise, having one thing I wasn’t in control of was nice.

T-shirts.

Her name was Savita Halappanavar.

The CQC found problems with governance and training.

One of my favourite memories from being in the Australian Outback as an Irish medical student was our “cultural awareness” day (it was an attempt to ensure we didn’t inadvertently cause some sort of international incident).