Marie Fleming
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‘We are really talking about assisted suicide’: Four views on a sensitive subject
- Health & Family
- October 3, 2020, 05:30
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(...)

The Irish Times view on assisted suicide: ending life with dignity?
- Editorial
- September 24, 2020, 18:45
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 (...)

TD calls for free Dáil vote on right to die legislation
- Politics
- September 16, 2020
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(...)

Judge with radical edge may take Supreme Court in new direction
- Crime & Law
- July 26, 2017, 20:30
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(...)

Direct Provision ruling signals new “dialogue” between Dail and the Judicary
- Opinion
- June 8, 2017, 01:22
The Supreme Court ruled last week in favour of a Burmese asylum seeker who challenged the legislative provisions that prohibited him from seeking work(...)

How Ireland’s courts decide who has to pay for failed cases
- High Court
- April 5, 2017, 17:41
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, partner of Marie Fleming, disappointed at inquiry
- Irish News
- October 24, 2016, 16:44
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. (...)

High Court to decide if brain-damaged man can be let die
- High Court
- September 19, 2016, 01:00
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 calls for legalisation of medical cannabis
- Irish News
- September 14, 2016, 19:01
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(...)

Breda O’Brien: Irish need to be as good with the dying as with death
- Opinion
- June 11, 2016, 00:32
Recently, I read Séamus O’Mahony’s occasionally grumpy, sometimes bleakly humorous and always thought-provoking book, The Way We Die Now. O’Mahony, a (...)