Barry McBrien

1 Introduction A migrant nurse/midwife is a registered nurse/midwife who has obtained their nurse/midwife qualification outside the host country in which they are employed. According to Pilette's seminal Model of Adjustment (1989), the integration phase typically begins between nine and twelve months of employment in the host country (Pilette 1989; Bayuo et al. 2023; Zakaria and Yusuf 2023; Roth et al. 2025).

Stephanie Jane Carolan Advanced nurse practitioner, Louth and Meath Disability Services, Ireland Barry McBrien Associate professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Why you should read this article: • To understand why achieving optimal oral health remains a challenge for people with intellectual disabilities • To improve your knowledge of the common barriers that mean oral health is often deprioritised in the intellectual...

Not quite a decade has passed since the Improvised Music Company staged a double celebration of their own 25th anniversary and of the 70th birthday of Tommy Halferty, the Derry-born guitarist who over the past five decades has become a hallmark of the Irish jazz scene. For that gig, called ‘Flyin’ Hi at 70’, the bassist Ronan Guilfoyle arranged some of Halferty’s tunes for performance by a seven-piece at the IMC’s Opium Rooms.