In March of 2019, a couple attending the National Maternity Hospital were told by doctors that their baby had a condition which meant he would not live after birth. The couple say they were then led towards having an abortion and told not to wait for the results of a second test to confirm the baby […]
When the oddly timed news broke last week that Pfizer was on the cusp of rolling out an effective vaccine for Covid-19, you could almost hear the great global cry of relief. At long last an end was in sight to the catastrophic health threats, stultifying boredom and economic paralysis that have plagued the world […]
Fianna Fail’s latest contortions on the Leo the Leak fiasco have proven that it is in fact quite possible for a political party to occupy a space some distance below rock bottom. In fact, if shooting yourself in the foot was a sport, Fianna Fail would surely be Olympic champions by now. For what is […]
The EU Economic Policy Committee has confirmed that the climate finance support provided by the EU and its member states (the UK included) amounted to €23.2 billion in 2019, a 6.9% increase compared to 2018. The total without the UK stood at €21.9 billion, a 7.4% increase compared to the total for the EU […]
The Lancet is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journals. It is also highly influential in the world of health policy formulation. It can quite literally be a career making event for a researcher or a scientist to have their work published in the journal. Indeed, in the niche world of […]
It is estimated that the number of people who will be in the 60+ age group will reach 2 billion by 2050. The resulting demographic imbalance that this will create will have a major impact not just on economic growth but on all areas of public and private health care. Many of these issues have […]
Great news everyone! If you have private health insurance because you were a fiver over the income threshold for a medical card, then guess what? Yes, you have just earned yourself the right to be charged a whopping €813 for a creaky, zero privacy stay on an HSE hospital trolley. But wait, it gets […]
It has been revealed that programmes seeking to ‘normalise’ abortion have been held for staff at 5 major maternity hospitals in Ireland. The programmes are being organised in conjunction with the World Health Organisation. Here are a few things that the World Health Organisation believe about abortion and the provision of abortion services. There is […]
Let me just lay my cards on the table straight away; the absence of leadership, and the utter failure of the Catholic Bishops to collectively challenge the restrictions on public worship in this state has been, at best, a mystery and at worst an absolute scandal. Nowhere in Europe have we seen such unreflective capitulation […]
While there were differing views on the necessity and proportionality of the NPHET recommendation to move the country to Level 5, there was very little debate around the manner in which that decision made its way into the public domain. Sent out on a fairly miserable Sunday evening, weather wise at least, it landed […]
The Labour Party has introduced the Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020. The aim of the Bill is to provide for an entitlement for employees to paid leave during periods of illness or injury and to amend the entitlement to leave on grounds of force majeure for parents whose children are unable to […]
On the 18th of March this year a German court convicted two former London-based investment bankers for their involvement in a criminal tax fraud that has “left treasuries across Europe tens of billions of euros out of pocket.” Then in June, the same Court published an anonymised 299-page version of its decision in which it […]