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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.

Bill O’Herlihy: his public relations firm has withdrawn a claim that it advises the Government. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Bill O’Herlihy lobbying firm says it no longer has Government links

Veteran broadcaster attended meeting between Taoiseach and tobacco industry

Roll-your-own tobacco products could be banned
Taoiseach holds formal talks with tobacco industry

Industry figures call on Government to reject proposals to ban menthol and roll-your-own products

Reilly defends lengthening waiting lists

Minister blames ’extraordinary winter’ and extended flu season for ’rebound’

Elective Caesarean sections are far more common among pregnant women who attend private consultants than among mothers delivering in the public health system
Caesarean rate higher in private care

Study says C-section rate 74 per cent higher among women attending private consultant

The direct and indirect cost of overweight and obesity in the Republic was an estimated €1.16 billion
Call for Government to act on obesity crisis

Overweight and obesity costing €1.1 bn in extra health costs, lost days and early death

Solicitor Caroline Simons arriving at the Oireachtas Health Committee hearings, at Leinster House, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
Abortion hearings show proposals need to be redrafted

Analysis: Central difficulty relates to suicide clause and absence of gestational limits as lawyers aired wide disagreements at th(...)

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
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