Brave Ronan has his medical card restored

The boy who spearheaded the campaign that derailed the Government’s local election campaign and forced it into an embarrassing U-turn has had his medical card restored.

Ronan Woodhouse, aged eight, from Clare, who has Down Syndrome, will get a full medical card until at least July 2015 after Taoiseach Enda Kenny apologised for the distress the cost-saving plan caused for people across the country.

This happened eight months after Ronan and his mother Noreen braved winter conditions to picket the Fine Gael annual conference in Limerick in a bid to highlight the impact of the policy to cut back on discretionary medical cards.