Tag: Ireland

WATCH: Dublin conference hears crucial warnings

Our Chief Executive Gordon Macdonald joins Canada's Alex Schadenberg and others in addressing a Hope Ireland Conference in Dublin.

Irish Justice Committee rebuffs bill

TDs and Senators decline to recommend assisted suicide and euthanasia bill with ‘serious flaws’ and potential for ‘unintended policy consequences.’

Irish human rights body takes bill to task

Ireland’s human rights watchdog identifies dangers of, and calls for ‘significant amendments’ to, euthanasia and assisted suicide bill

Euthanasia bill tabled in Ireland

Private Member’s Bill would allow assisted suicide or euthanasia for anyone with a ‘terminal illness’, without specifying a required prognosis, and requires doctors to facilitate requests.

Webinar: disability, medicine and euthanasia

Disability rights advocate Baroness Grey-Thompson, geriatrician Professor Des O'Neill and palliative care consultant Dr Sinéad Donnelly discuss euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Marie Fleming loses appeal challenging Irish ban on assisted suicide

Irish Supreme Court rules that there is 'no explicit right to commit suicide, or to determine the time of one's own death' in Ireland's Constitution.

Landmark Irish ‘right to die’ case is based on flawed assumption

Marie Fleming's appeal before Dublin's Supreme Court is based on a failure to understand the law's basis and intention