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nnIt looks as if the timely intervention by Dick Spicer and his son Norman crystallised thinking about a resolution to the medical ethics issue over the weekend.nnA sensible outcome and a noble act by the Sisters of Charity.nnhttp://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/national-maternity-hospital-sisters-charity-13106698?ptnr_rid=746620&icid=EM_DublinLive_Nletter_News_Mediumteaser_Image_Story1nn 

This is an interesting interview on 26 April on ‘Liveline’ between John Suttle (Irish National Schools’ Trust) with Joe Duffy.nnJohn’s late father was CAG in the early ’70s.nnAll very relevant to today’s concerns about the move of the NMH to the SVUH campus.nnhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_SnAqPEstr6X3pWYnU1dTg3Tkk/preview

The HIQUA report (http://ow.ly/CwTv30c5MNm) into Savita Halappanavar’s death from sepsis while in labour at University Hospital Galway should be read by our politicians during the one month abeyance in the planning for the move of the NMH to SVUH campus decreed by Minister Harris.nn”The Authority’s investigation also found that there is wide variation in the…

The planned move of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) to the St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH) campusnnSome key issues in reproductive medicine, novel therapies and research at the new campus locationn n Who is in charge of a patient who is transferred from the NMH to SVUH n Is that patient to be treated under…

Press release issued 26 May: embargoed until 12:00 h [updated 15:30 h]nnnA Holy Mess!nnWhy is the National Maternity Hospital being co-located at the St. Vincent’s University Hospital campus? Why not at another tertiary teaching hospital location not under overt religious control?nnDick Spicer and his son, Norman, believe that the State is acting improperly in funding…

nnThis is the announcement made yesterday by Minister for Education & Skills, Richard Bruton TD about the proposed Bill to regulate National School admission practices.nnThe Bill outline fails to deal specifically with the use of religion tests (baptismal certificates) by some schools for admission of some pupils.nnNot good enough Minister!nnEducation (Admission to Schools) Bill introduced…

The Labour Party intends to introduce a Bill in the Oireachtas to combat religious exclusion on admission by means of a religious test (baptismal certificate).nn”There is a clear tension between provisions in the Constitution that impact on schools admission policy. On the one hand, the Constitution makes it clear that the State is entitled to…

This Letter to Editor appeared in the Irish Times on Friday 10 June 2016. n  Whatever about the possible merits of the CNS model it completely undermines their bona fides to have it suggested by Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, that any church have a role in running these school in the future.…

Roisin Ingle writes about getting ready to fill in her family’s Census 2016 form in last Saturday’s Irish Times (23 April).nnShe shares our view that the religion questions must be reformed before we conduct the next census.nn”It’s unfortunate that yet again the religion question is not about religious practice. A question about practice would provide…

n Prof. Diarmuid Ferriter wrote this in The Irish Independent on 30 March last. n The so-called ‘baptism barrier’ to children getting a place in Catholic primary schools is “a dark stain on the national conscience that needs to be removed”, according to Professor Diarmuid Ferriter. nn n nnThe UCD Professor of Modern History told…