Marie Fleming

Ireland needs a minister for women’s health, author and women’s health advocate, Vicky Phelan, says if we want women’s issues “to be taken seriously.”(...)

The Dying with Dignity Bill brought forward by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny was debated in the Dáil on Thursday and will be voted on in the comi(...)

TD Gino Kenny’s Dying with Dignity Bill has reopened an important debate about the right of doctors to assist the terminally ill end their lives at a (...)

The Government has been urged to allow its TDs a free vote on legislation seeking to give people with progressive and incurable terminal illnesses the(...)

Most young barristers have to wait years for a meaty case to arrive on their desk. Frank Clarke was qualified less than a year when one of the biggest(...)

The Supreme Court ruled last week in favour of a Burmese asylum seeker who challenged the legislative provisions that prohibited him from seeking work(...)

The rule of the higher courts is that costs follow the event – which is say that they go to the winner – unless otherwise ordered. When it gave the I(...)

Tom Curran, the partner of late right-to-die campaigner Marie Fleming, has said he is disappointed a Garda investigation is under way into her death. (...)

A High Court judge is expected to decide soon if a severely brain-injured young man, who has been on ventilator support for four years and has a very (...)

Right-to-die campaigner Tom Curran has called on the Government to legalise the use of cannabis for medical purposes. Mr Curran said only two things(...)