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Paul Cullen

Paul Cullen

Health Correspondent

Paul Cullen is Health Correspondent with The Irish Times. A reporter with many interests but few obsessions, he has previously covered politics, consumer affairs, the developing world and education. He also (mis)spent some years reporting from the planning tribunal and is the author of With a Little Help from my Friends, a history of political corruption. Other books dealt with refugees and asylum-seekers in Ireland and Dublin.

Prof Kevin Malone of UCD at the launch of his report Suicide in Ireland 2003-2008 yesterday. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Abortion Bill risks normalising suicide, says leading psychiatrist

Prof Kevin Malone warns of sending wrong signal to vulnerable young men

Prof Kevin Malone, School of Medicine & Medical Science at UCD. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill
Still no clear answers as abortion debate goes on

Analysis: There was little agreement among witnesses

Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony in the neoneathal ICU department of Holles Street. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Spectre of suicide haunts proceedings and is set for return

It wasn’t long before sparks started to fly as tempers frayed

Dr Sam Coulter Smyth: the master of the Rotunda Hospital said the inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination posed major ethical dilemmas for obstetricians. Photograph: Eric Luke
Government likely to face pressure to modify draft abortion Bill

Master of Rotunda Hospital says inclusion in legislation of suicidal intent as grounds for a termination not evidence-based

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin. He says his anxiety is that it would be permissible for doctors to certify that the medical procedure necessary to avert the risk to the woman’s life consisted of the “termination of her pregnancy”.
Archbishop Martin says law will leave unborn with less protection here than in more ‘liberal’ states

First public intervention in debate

Solicitor Gerard O’Donnell representing Praveen Halappanavar husband of Savita Halappanavar who died in a hospital in Galway. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Final HSE Savita report due within weeks

Halappanavar solicitor describes meeting with inquiry chairman as very productive

Minister of State for Primary Care Alex White: said at the weekend that the much-delayed appointment of specialist diabetes nurses would be completed by June
Gap in diabetes care blamed for preventable amputations

System ‘in tatters’ because of unfilled posts and political inaction, says diabetes group

Further delays could arise from the planning process; a report last year categorised the planning risk on the St James’s site as “moderate”. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Children’s hospital delayed until at least 2019

Project delayed by three years since commitment in Programme for Government

Minister for Health James Reilly described his proposals as “the most fundamental reform of the Irish acute hospital system in decades” and promised that they would be implemented immediately
Cabinet approves plan to reorganise hospitals into six regional groups

Smaller hospitals to lose services as part of “most fundamental reform in decades”

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