Councillors show naked ambition in battle to end flouridation

Two West Cork town councillors have almost bared all in the campaign to have fluoride stripped from the country’s public water supplies

Clonakilty town councillor Anne Cullinane (FF) and Skibbereen town councillor Karen Oakley, (FG) both in their 40s, and anti-fluoridation campaigner Denise Brassil from Tralee, will feature in a naked calendar to raise money for expert witnesses in a forthcoming High Court challenge to the State’s 50-year-old policy of obligatory fluoridation.

Ireland is the only country in Europe that continues to fluoridate public water supplies. In their court challenge, campaigners will draw on a growing body of scientific research which links fluoride to thyroid dysfunction, asthma, autism, and neurological disorders to ban the addition of flourosilic acid to public water.