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Irish Government to fund 50 medical places for students at Queen's University Belfast

The students will commit to applying to take up a position in the HSE as an intern at the end of their studies.

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT is to fund 50 medical places for students at Queen’s University Belfast over the next two academic years. 

A total of 25 places will be made available for qualifying students from Ireland or Northern Ireland in Queen’s from September 2024. A further 25 places will be made available in September 2025. 

These places will be co-funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education and the Department of Health. 

Students who take up these places will pay the same student contribution rate of €3,000 as their counterparts studying in medical schools in Ireland.

They will also commit to applying to take up a position in the HSE as an intern at the end of their studies.

“We have forged really important bonds with partners in Northern Ireland to help improve access to education and research and this is a further example of these relationships benefiting both education and healthcare systems on the island,” Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said. 

All applicants will apply via the UCAS system and cit the UCAT test. 

As the window for entry in September 2024 closed on 16 October 2023, all candidates interviewed will receive information as soon as the scheme has been announced to determine if they are interested in this scheme.

All applicants will have ranked highly enough to receive an offer.

Details of entry for the 2025/26 scheme will be provided at a future date. 

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:46 AM

    Another political article on behalf of the Government.
    Please, Journal, be honest with people.
    In the US Presidential Election, at least the media outlets declared their preference and bias.
    It’s the least you owe us.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:01 AM

    @Garry Coll: hunger strike is the only solution lol

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:22 AM

    @Paul M Doe:
    Not for me.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:44 AM

    @Garry Coll: what bias, just reporting verifies facts from meta. Please point to the bias

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    Nov 9th 2024, 2:54 AM

    @Paul M Doe: I just scrolled down half a mile to get to comments,, left wing media sure make it difficult, still drying they/them eyes,

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    Nov 9th 2024, 6:01 AM

    @Joe Mc Dermott: jajajaja,or you could just clicked on the thing that says comments under the headline saving your poor little fingies the trauma

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    Nov 9th 2024, 7:27 AM

    @Joe Mc Dermott: Do your Right Wing Media sources publish the comments above articles?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 7:28 AM

    @Garry Coll: You don’t like facts and truth if you object to this article.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 7:31 AM

    @Garry Coll: Did ya not know The Journal changed their name to CNN?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:17 AM

    @HisMastersAlibi: That doesn’t work for me on Iphone 13, takes me to the top of the article, tried other articles, same.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:19 AM

    Sharia Fein down the drain. Vote Independent/Nationalist.
    Keep Hamas/Hezbollah out of Ireland!!!

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:34 AM

    @Finian McG: isn’t it time u went to bed and stop spouting drivel…

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:38 AM

    @Clare Power: are you a misandrist? Who are you to tell a man how to live his life?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:40 AM

    @Finian McG: You just told people to vote for a particular party!! I would think a bit more before u reply in the future…

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:43 AM

    @Clare Power: what particular party ….think a bit now….

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:47 AM

    @Finian McG: good deflection..

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:50 AM

    @Clare Power: …from you lol!…what particular party did I recommend voting for?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:55 AM

    @Finian McG: that would be the party of racists and trouble makers…Hamas in Ireland…please…

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:59 AM

    @Clare Power: Hamas in Ireland? That party would be Sharia Fein, surely?
    You still say what particular party I recommended voting for…

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:00 AM

    @Finian McG: don’t mind that Karen

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:36 AM

    SF as usual is making a concerted effort to control social media. It is obvious from the thumbs up on snide remarks about FF or FG and their standing in the polls. Now we get a picture of their spending on advertisements on social media.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:55 AM

    @Vincent Alexander: meanwhile FFG bootlickers are up at all hours of night trolling and trying to offend as many people as possible. Never seen a classless comment from a SF supporter, you can’t say the same…

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    Nov 9th 2024, 11:57 AM

    @Eoin .h: Just read the first line and you contradict your own comment

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:35 AM

    NCH 2.2 Billion..
    RTE 750 Million..
    Security Hut 550,000..
    Bike Shed 336,000..

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:44 AM

    @Michale Kane: how many are in the pedo ring?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:56 AM

    @Paul M Doe: Dunno… ask your hero Trump ? Or BK’s in FF & FG ? Sure maybe easier ask them all together at ur next gathering eh ! ..

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    Nov 9th 2024, 2:03 AM

    @Michale Kane: you are hurting shinner, your evil cult has been badly found out :)

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    Nov 9th 2024, 6:01 AM

    @Michale Kane: why are you dense?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 9:30 AM

    @Lefty Cries: the desperation the FFG voters at this point. Trolling around through the night desperate to offend someone

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    Nov 9th 2024, 5:27 AM

    No vote for SF never

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:26 AM

    @Lefty Cries: Vote ABSF – Anybody But Sinn Féin

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    Nov 10th 2024, 10:40 AM

    @Vincent Alexander: i be voting anyone bar ff or fg. Cost living is effecting lots Irish people.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 12:50 AM

    FG definitely getting my vote

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:01 AM

    @Lefty Cries: Shinners desperately spending trying to humanise themselves, won’t work lol

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    Nov 9th 2024, 5:59 AM

    Sorry state of affairs, when Ivana Bacik looks better than Micheal Martin

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:36 AM

    And how money did FG spend on the journal ? lol

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:45 AM

    @Michale Kane: there are few things on this planet as enjoyable as the shinner persecution complex :D

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    Nov 9th 2024, 6:06 AM

    @Michale Kane: I am enjoying myself

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:31 AM

    SF spent all that money on a failed campaign lol

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:48 AM

    @Lefty Cries: or on text messages for the youth vote

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    Nov 9th 2024, 2:23 AM

    The only chance of the Shinners getting elected is if they buy their way in.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 2:34 AM

    @Sam Walsh: well they have the northern bank money, one of their many many crimes

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    Nov 9th 2024, 1:02 AM

    Show me a shinner and I’ll show you a sk umbag

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:20 AM

    How depressing that the country will more than likely end up with a FFFG coalition. We are now a one party state!!!

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    Nov 9th 2024, 10:39 AM

    @Mike Dunne: It would be worse if we ended up being governed by a Northern Ireland party.

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    Nov 9th 2024, 8:15 AM

    Do these clowns not understand that ad blockers exist?

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    Nov 9th 2024, 11:41 AM

    It’s not going to happen. People may have had enough of the government. But they are absolutely fed up with SF. Party of chaos (internally regarding their own members, and externally if they got anywhere near making decisions that would affect all of us).

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    Nov 9th 2024, 7:41 PM

    After reading one of the most biased articles by this Journalist on ROG & the Greens, it’s really hard to afford this article any credibility. It’s hard to decipher who to believe in Irish MSM anymore. I certainly don’t believe a thing from RTE as their Lies & Misinformation around salaries & corporate governance & their conduct around the Referendums. Irish Journalism is truly dead & in the pocket of lots of vested interests.

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