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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Our health service does not reflect 1916 ideals

The dispassion amongst those who acquiesce, or facilitate a two-tier health service, is such that they must find it acceptable to treat a section of their fellow citizens as undeserving of humane treatment.

Cervical cancer vaccine may prove to be useless

Sinn Féin have more questions to answer

Culture, not vultures

Children’s referendum may not be the answer

Priorities all wrong

Why do we still have so many costly quangos?

IS there anyone out there who can explain to the ordinary Irish taxpayer why we need so many agencies — “quangos” — to run our country when we elect politicians and pay them handsomely to do the job?

Mon, 29 Nov, 2010

Adverse reactions to cervical vaccine

MOTHERS Alliance Ireland has learned that, to date, 34 adverse reactions to the Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine have been reported to the Irish Medicines Board (IMB).

Mon, 08 Nov, 2010

Heed the bishops — not Gilmore

I FIND it extraordinary that John Gormley and now Eamon Gilmore (Irish Examiner, June 28) want Catholic voters to keep quiet and not become involved in parliamentary matters.

Fri, 02 Jul, 2010

‘Irrational’ opposition to religion in schools

IN his letter calling on the Minister for Education not to support faith-based schools (November 26), Maurice Fitzgerald got one thing right — he says that “schools are places of learning”.

Fri, 30 Nov, 2007

Will you pay the ESB hike sooner than you think?

ON January 1 the price of electricity went up officially by 12.6%, but for a substantial section of the population this increase could be applied to a portion of their electricity usage from as early as last October.

Fri, 02 Feb, 2007

Good sports all

REGRETTABLY, our time in Ireland has come to an end and we have now returned to Australia for the next part of our life’s journey.

Wed, 08 Jun, 2005