Patricia Casey
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‘It was like he was in the horrors’: The story of a boy who tried to murder a woman in Dún Laoghaire
- Criminal Court
- November 4, 2019, 12:00
The iPhone app was supposed to offer some level of reassurance – it would show the location of the 15-year-old boy as he moved around Dún Laoghaire an(...)

Psychiatrists against abortion on ‘spurious’ mental health grounds
- Health
- May 16, 2018, 18:34
A group of psychiatrists has said proposed abortion legislation in Ireland should not be used to facilitate terminations on “spurious” mental health g(...)

Psychiatrist says to suggest abortion a solution to mental illness ‘naive in the extreme’
- Social Affairs
- May 1, 2018, 19:35
Consultant psychiatrist Patricia Casey has said that to suggest abortion is a solution to mental illness “is naïve in the extreme”. Referring to 201(...)

Website promotes adoption as an option in crisis pregnancies
- World
- March 28, 2018, 19:35
Women in crisis pregnancies have been urged to think of adoption by a new group and website dedicated to publicising the option. “It’s not a solution(...)

Committee 'couldn't find' any anti-abortion medical experts to argue for Eighth
- Irish News
- February 19, 2018, 18:28
The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment has revealed the committee could not find a single medical expert in Ireland to argue th(...)

Breda O’Brien: Mindfulness not the cure for all that ails us
- Opinion
- December 23, 2017, 05:00
Over the past while, I have been thinking about a Christmas years ago when my American friend Wendy came to spend Christmas with my parents and siblin(...)

Sinn Féin TDs criticise colleague’s comments on abortion
- Politics
- November 12, 2017, 21:10
Sinn Féin TDs have distanced themselves from the views of their colleague Peadar Tóibín, who on Sunday criticised the Oireachtas Committee on the eigh(...)

Anti-abortion witness declines to go to ‘kangaroo court’ committee
- Social Affairs
- November 8, 2017, 10:27
Another anti-abortion witness has declined to appear before the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment claiming it is a charade with a pr(...)

Chair of Oireachtas committee defends abortion witness list
- Politics
- October 25, 2017, 13:50
The chair of the Oireachtas committee examining the Eighth Amendment Catherine Noone has defended the work of the committee ahead of its latest hearin(...)

Oireachtas committee’s decision on Eighth Amendment was predictable
- Opinion
- October 21, 2017, 05:00
The profound cynicism many feel about politics will only have been reinforced by the extraordinary actions of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Ei(...)