Yvonne Cahalane

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Yvonne Cahalane with Tristan Forde (3) and his brother Oscar (5) at home in Dunmanway, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Medicinal cannabis: the long journey to acceptance

The last two Decembers have been the best and worst of times for Yvonne Cahalane and her husband John Forde. In December 2015, she set out with their(...)

Vera Twomey with her daughter Ava, who suffers from Dravet’s Syndrome: Ms Twomey is walking to Dublin in support of the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. File photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision
Warnings over ‘fast and loose’ medicinal cannabis supply

Families seeking to treat their sick children with medicinal cannabis are being subjected to ripoffs and misleading information, the mother of the fir(...)

Tristan Forde from Dunmanway, Co Cork, with his mother Yvonne Cahalane.
Cork boy (3) gets licence to use cannabis for medicinal purposes
  • Health
  • December 23, 2016, 21:05

A three-year-old boy with a catastrophic form of epilepsy has become the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed use marijuana for medicinal pur(...)