Fergal Malone

“We have been a mother and father. Now we want to be parents.” They were the parting words of Shane Ó Foghlú and Ellie Curran last time we met. Appea(...)

Modern pharmacological advances notwithstanding, infection remains an important healthcare issue. Hospital acquired infection and antibiotic resistant(...)

The persuasive power of numbers should never be underestimated in the upcoming referendum. Many media have been used by both sides to impart their m(...)

The LoveBoth campaign has called on the Government to ask Google to ban websites which allow people to import abortion pills. The group, which is adv(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said Catholic Church opposition to social change in this country needs to be challenged and scrutinised. Speakin(...)

There isn’t a sound in the large auditorium as Prof Fergal Malone slits open a woman’s abdomen at the start of a Caesarean birth that is being filmed (...)

It’s nearly 10 years since entrepreneur Bill Cullen made headlines by branding Transition Year as a “doss”. Yet that notion still lingers among some (...)

The monthly publication of “patient safety” reports on the State’s maternity hospitals can lead to the creation of “league tables” by the media and th(...)

“A step too far” – those are the words repeated by politicians opposing unrestricted access to abortion up to 12 weeks into pregnancy. Taoiseach Leo (...)

It is a “fallacy and a myth” to suggest that a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome leads automatically to abortion, the master of the Rotunda Hospital(...)