Laura Brennan
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‘Stick your vaccine up your arse’ – the Covid-19 vaccine, the science and the sceptics
- Health & Family
- October 17, 2020, 06:00
Last Wednesday evening, shortly after announcing yet another round of restrictions, effectively cancelling Halloween and raising a big question mark o(...)

‘It affects your nervous system, your brain, your thought process’
- Parenting
- February 25, 2020, 06:01
When Dublin hurling coach Eoin Roche looks back at professional sports photos of him at the end of 2018, he can now see what he wasn’t aware of then –(...)

Brexit, climate change and the weather top Twitter trends
- Technology
- December 9, 2019, 20:00
What do our trending Twitter topics say about us? If the Irish list is to be taken at face value, we are all worked up about Brexit, climate change an(...)

‘Every day I wish I could have availed of the HPV vaccine’
- Health & Family
- November 25, 2019, 06:01
About 300 women in Ireland are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year. Some are successfully cured, others are diagnosed too late to avail of treat(...)

Laura Brennan’s story is ‘secret ingredient’ in HPV campaign
- Health
- September 12, 2019, 20:33
HPV-related cancers can be eliminated within a generation if “we all work together” to reduce misinformation around the vaccine, the brother of a pati(...)

HPV vaccine to be given to all first year students in secondary school
- Health
- August 27, 2019, 01:02
The HPV vaccine for boys will be rolled out from next week for the first time, Minister for Health Simon Harris will announce on Tuesday. The HPV va(...)

Sustainability tops agenda for next generation of budding entrepreneurs
- Innovation
- July 25, 2019, 06:15
Every year Irish households throw away an average of €700 in food waste. In volume terms that’s about one million tonnes. These figures come from Dubl(...)

‘Her actions will save lives’: TDs pay tribute to campaigner Laura Brennan
- Oireachtas
- March 27, 2019, 17:04
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has led tributes in the Dáil to HPV vaccination campaigner Laura Brennan, whose funeral service took place in Ennis, Co Clare o(...)

Ireland owes ‘debt of gratitude’ to Laura Brennan, funeral hears
- Health
- March 27, 2019, 14:53
“Selfless giver” and HPV vaccine campaigner Laura Brennan met her final days with “grace, generosity and calmness”, her funeral has heard. Her broth(...)

HPV campaigner Laura Brennan’s life-saving work
- Health
- March 22, 2019, 03:14
About 12 women a year will have been spared death from cervical cancer thanks to the advocacy of Laura Brennan along with other HPV vaccine campaigner(...)