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<p>Irish Pharmacy Union president Dermot Twomey</p>

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Late-night pharmacy openings under threat 
Pharmacies are ending their late-night services and reducing their weekend opening hours due to the financial pressures they currently face, the IPU has warned
<p>Pharmacists can already swap between a brand-name medicine and a generic version, but it is being argued that their skill set should be more effectively used in also substituting for new medication if needed.</p>

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Pharmacists want authority to substitute medicines without new prescriptions
<p>Irish Pharmacy Union president Dermot Twomey in Cloyne, Co Cork: “[I]f an antibiotic is prescribed for a child but that is short — like, at the moment, Calvepen liquid — as pharmacists, we could substitute for an alternative antibiotic.' Picture: Eddie O'Hare</p>

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