Organisation: Irish Council for Bioethics

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Wielding the axe on easy targets

FRIDAY afternoon of a bank holiday weekend is perfect timing if you want to bury news.

news

Sweeping changes to state agencies would cut 600 jobs

business

Gleeson seen as clean face during scandals

Stem cells: There is an alternative research route

Killing embryos is never right

New approach will not replace embryonic stem cells in the short term

No ethical, medical or scientific basis for destructive embryo research

THE Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB) recently issued an opinion which recommended that frozen IVF embryos could be destroyed for research to generate human embryonic stem cell lines.

Tue, 13 May, 2008

Verbal gymnastics on embryonic destruction

AM I alone in feeling disquiet at the rationale used by the Irish Council for Bioethics to justify their support of embryonic stem cell research?

Wed, 30 Apr, 2008

Calls for regulations on stem cell research

THE failure to develop a proper regulatory system for stem cell research undermines the moral value of the human embryo.

Thu, 24 Apr, 2008

Bioethics council backs contentious stem-cell research

The Irish Council for Bioethics has given its qualified backing to the contentious practice of stem-cell research.

Wed, 23 Apr, 2008

AIB chairman to preside at UCC’s governing body

AIB chairman and former attorney general Dermot Gleeson has been named as the chairman of University College Cork’s governing body.

Thu, 29 Mar, 2007

Give your views on the ethics of research using embryos

THE public are being invited to have their say on the issue of embryonic stem cell research before Government policy is drawn up.

Tue, 06 Mar, 2007

Group may have aided other Irish deaths

OTHER Irish people may have used a controversial Swiss “right to die” group to commit suicide, the group’s leader revealed yesterday as he confirmed that a disabled Irishman ended his life in Switzerland last November.

Thu, 31 Mar, 2005

Medical research ethics – your views sought

THE Irish Council for Bioethics has established a working group to consider the use of human biological material, such as blood and tissue, in medical research.

Mon, 11 Aug, 2003

New SFI Board appointed by Harney

A new Board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) with Dr Pat Fottrell as its chairperson has been appointed by the Tánaiste Mary Harney.

Tue, 05 Aug, 2003

Foundation to distribute €646m to researchers

TÁNAISTE Mary Harney has announced the board of Science Foundation Ireland, the body set up to fund research and development.

Tue, 05 Aug, 2003

EU to allow research on fetuses

ETHICAL guidelines that will permit the use of five-day-old foetuses for scientific research were agreed by the European Commission yesterday.

Thu, 10 Jul, 2003