I have one issue. My right to die at a time of my own choosing in company of my own choosing, writes Terry Prone.

A right-to-die campaigner has said he has full confidence that the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes will be legalised in Ireland.

A former high-flying marketing executive living with Parkinson’s disease has told how he was committed to a psychiatric hospital for trying to plan his own death.

Thousands of people yesterday showed their veneration in St Mary’s Cathedral in Killarney, Co Kerry, for the relics of St Anthony of Padua, the 13th century saint revered as the finder of lost things.

IN an exclusive interview with the Irish Examiner on Tuesday, the partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming admitted that he has helped dozens of seriously and terminally ill people plan their deaths.

Laws giving terminally ill people the right to assisted death need to be a Dáil priority, Junior Minister John Halligan says.

The partner of the late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming says he helped dozens of seriously and terminally ill people plan their deaths with loved ones who risk jail for assisting them.

Tom Curran and his partner Marie Fleming unsuccessfully campaigned to allow him assist her to die. He tells Caroline O’Doherty why he is now risking jail by disclosing that in fact he did assist her to die in 2013

A Waterford woman who suffers from the late stages of multiple sclerosis has called for the next Dáil to legislate for access to assisted suicide for those with terminal illness.

Ann O’Loughlin looks back on the high-profile and occasionally controversial career of the late Justice Paul Carney

Right to die campaigner Tom Curran says a soon-to-be introduced Dáil bill allowing assisted suicide will be about safeguarding vulnerable people.

It is a basic human right to end one’s life. It is not a privilege earned by intolerable suffering writes Terry Prone

FATE DEALT Bernadette Forde savage blows, but the State also ensured that her final days and hours were lacking peace of mind, writes Michael Clifford. 

YET AGAIN, ministers were happy to talk horse manure rather than do anything, writes Shaun Connolly.

Tom Curran, the widowed partner of Marie Fleming who lost a landmark case on the right-to-die, has accused the DPP of ignoring the Supreme Court’s wish that guidelines be introduced to set out when people who help their loved ones to die would face prosecution.

Right- to-die campaigner Tom Curran has said the trial of Gail O’Rorke for assisting the suicide of her friend should never have taken place.

‘Suicide tourism’ is on the rise, with the number of people travelling to Switzerland to take their own lives doubling in four years.

IN September 2013 scientist Professor Stephen Hawking spoke in favour of assisted suicide for people with terminal diseases, reigniting a debate that has been gathering momentum ever since.

IT isn’t a question that anybody would like to have to answer yet it looms in the distance with certainty. It’s a conversation nobody looks forward to but should be undertaken with seriousness, because it lurks in everybody’s future.

The Government is expected to sign new laws today paving the way for cannabis-based medicines to become legal in Ireland.

Being the invisible artist brings its challenges, discovers Richard Fitzpatrick.

Euthanasia is a crime in Ireland, but there is growing support for a more liberal legal regime, says Dan Buckley.

Right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming wanted her story to be published, and needed someone to finish it. Here Sue Leonard tells how she wrote the remarkable book.

There has perhaps never been a book that arrived at a point of such poignancy as the autobiography of the courageous right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming.

The State has agreed to orders that it will pay most of the substantial legal costs of the unsuccessful challenge by Marie Fleming to the law making it an offence to assist a suicide.

Right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming loved life, said a minister at her funeral.

Mourners have paid their final respects to the right to die campaigner Marie Fleming.

The funeral is taking place in Co. Wicklow of right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming.

The right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming will be laid to rest today.

The partner of Marie Fleming, the woman with multiple sclerosis who lost a right-to-die challenge in the Supreme Court last April, has vowed to continue her campaign.

When she died, aged 42 just five years ago, Susie Long, highlighted the divide in our health systems.

Marie Fleming, the woman who lost a landmark "right to die" case this year, has died.

The disconnect between the elected and their electors has been on display to an alarming degree.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to meet terminally ill multiple sclerosis patient Marie Fleming in her home, her partner has revealed.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny wants to meet terminally ill multiple sclerosis sufferer Marie Fleming in her home, her partner has revealed.

Terminally ill Marie Fleming — who lost a Supreme Court appeal earlier this year to establish a legal “right to die” — was asked to produce new evidence proving her illness despite a promise by health bosses to look at how patients with long-term sicknesses were treated under the medical card scheme.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore says the case of Marie Fleming and her medical card shows the "cold system" needs to be addressed.

The partner of Marie Fleming has revealed that the HSE demanded documented proof that the terminally ill woman is dying, as part of a review of her medical card.