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The Pain Endures
Symphysiotomy survivors and chair of the Survivors of Symphyisiotomy Marie O’Connor outside the Department of An Taoiseach last year RTE reports: “A 74-year-old woman who suffered life-long pain...
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‘Prove It, Prove It, Prove It’
Marie O’Connor, of Survivors of Symphysiotomy Marie O’Connor, chairperson of the group Survivors of Symphysiotomy, spoke with Chris O’Donoghue on Newstalk Breakfast this morning about the group’s...
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‘The Least Adversarial System That Could Be Established’
Members of Survivors Of Symphysiotomy outside the Department of the Taoiseach last year and Health Minister Leo Varadkar “Minister for Health Leo Varadkar has refused to intervene in the Government...
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‘A Brute, Uncaring Force Hardwired Into The DNA Of This State’
From top: A Magdalene Laundry in the 1950s; Nuala Ní Mhuircheartaigh (Department of Foreign Affairs), adviser to Martin McAleese in his role investigating State involvement with the Magdalene...
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‘Any Applicant’s Mind Can Be Put At Rest’
Survivors and supporters of Survivors of Symphysiotomy at a protest outside the Dáil in September 2014 You may recall how around 730 women, who’ve had a symphysiotomy and applied to the redress...
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No Consent, No Contract
From the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme website Further to the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme saying it is “happy to shred” the records of women who had symphysiotomies… Paul Cullen, in the Irish Times,...
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‘Confabulation, False Memories And Conspiracy Theories’
From top: report by Judge Maureen Harding Clark on the ex gratia payment scheme for women who had symphysiotomies; members of the Survivors of Symphysiotomy campaign group in June 2012; and Judge...
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‘The Fact Is: Medical Records Are Missing’
Women who had symphysiotomies and their supporters outside the Department of An Taoiseach in 2014 Further to the publication of Justice Maureen Harding Clark’s report on the symphysiotomy redress...
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‘This Document Cannot Stand’
From top: Irish Times Health Correspondent Paul Cullen; Independents 4 Change TD Clare Daly and health correspondent at The Irish Times Paul Cullen You may recall the publication last week of Judge...
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Survivors of Symphysiotomy protest, Merrion Street, Dublin 2 in 2014 This morning. The European Court of Human Rights has declared applications from three Irish women who underwent symphysiotomies in...
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