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Wed 02 Feb 2010Thalidomide group urges action
The Irish Thalidomide Association has today called for further financial provisions to be made to sufferers after the announcement that survivors in Northern Ireland are to receive £1.1 million in compensation.
Speaking today, Fionola Cassidy, spokeswoman for the association, said: "For those of us who have survived, and it's such a small amount of survivors, we are left with shortened limbs, missing limbs - ears are missing, hearing is a big difficulty.
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