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Kitty Holland

Kitty Holland

Kitty Holland is a staff reporter with a particular interest in human rights and social justice. She has reported widely on such issues as homelessness, drug addiction, poverty, women’s rights, Travellers, immigrants’ rights, asylum seekers, domestic violence and gay, lesbian and transgender rights. In November 2012 she broke the story on the death of Savita Halappanavar, on October 28th 2012, at Galway University Hospital. She has been with The Irish Times since 1998. She studied History and Politics at Trinity College, Dublin, and completed a Masters in Journalism in Dublin City University.

Michael Kivlehan has written to the Attorney General asking for a direction to the Sligo coroner to hold an inquest into the death of his wife, Dhara, in 2010.
Inquest sought into death after childbirth

Widower seeking answers three years after wife’s death following son’s birth

The Stardust nightclub in Artane, north Dublin, after the February 1981 fire. Photograph: Tom Lawlor
Stardust families demand new inquiry

The families say the first version of an independent inquiry report was ‘altered’ before publication

Deirdre Conroy argued her rights had been violated when denied an abortion.
Woman at centre of ‘D’ case speaks out

News of death of Savita Halappanavar was ‘the last straw’ as four-year legal battle seemed to have been ‘for nothing’

Protestors from various trade unions in Dublin calling on Government to legislate for the X case. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire
Dublin clinic reports increase in ‘amateur abortions’

Group says legislation will not address economic reasons for women importing ‘abortion kits’

The Criminal Law Sexual Offences Bill provides for an ascending scale of penalties, from a fixed-notice fine of €500 for first-time offenders, to a €4,000 fine and/or four-week jail sentence for repeat offenders. Photograph: PA
Bill to criminalise men who use prostitutes

Sex industry almost wholly run by organised crime gangs, says Immigrant Council

A Traveller caravan in Tullow, Co Carlow. Photograph: David Sleator
Travellers hit hardest by cuts in State funding

Accommodation spending down 85 per cent, Pavee Point-commissioned report shows

Officials from SIPTU, UNITE and Women’s Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions hand in letter to Leinster House calling on immediate action to legislate for the X Case. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Unions urge no further delay in X legislation

Reports that suicidal women must be reviewed by six medics “an insult to women”

Savita Halappanavar and her husband Praveen: “She was full of energy, very playful, vibrant, lovely. I am very fortunate to have loved her,” he recalls.
Halappanavar interview: Consultant ‘took shelter under the law’ at inquest

Husband says question of why his wife died has not yet been answered

Tony Canavan (left) from Galway and Roscommon Hospital Group outside Galway County Hall after the jury in the inquest of Savita Halappanavar returned a unanimous verdict of death by medical misadventure. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire
Halappanavar inquest jury returns verdict of death by medical misadventure

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