After Justice Minister Alan Shatter yesterday promised legislation to allow reporting of hitherto secret decisions in children’s courts, it is now incumbent on health minister Dr James Reilly to commit to rescind the similarly secretive and outdated Fluoridation Act of 1963 before the Referendum on Children’s rights on Sat 10th November 2012. “Unless the government commits to rescind the discredited... 

The Irish Medical Times reveals that 70% of adults in the fluoridated Republic are above the medically-safe daily fluoride intake and this is directly due to drinking water being fluoridated. In the UK which is largely un-fluoridated, a sizeable proportion of adults are also above safe levels. Only in February 2012 the European Commission again warned that the very youngest are at greatest risk with... 

Ireland is voting in a referendum on an EU austerity pact. If Dublin does not accept tough budget deficit obligations, it would be a kiss goodbye to EU rescue money, which could be followed by default and a eurozone exit. The mooted European Fiscal Pact was initiated by Germany and France. If approved, it would oblige Dublin to strictly control its budget deficit, which reached 13.1 per cent last... 

EU ambassadors in Dublin have been informed that their nationals living in Ireland should not make up baby bottles with tap water. Following an Open Letter (1) to the European Commission by leading Dutch paediatrician, Dr Gavin ten Tusscher and others associated with Amsterdam University and the NGO Ecobaby, EU diplomacies in Dublin have been alerted to the risks from tap water in Ireland which contains... 

Africa Day will be celebrated in Limerick on May 25. Sounds, tastes and visions of Africa will be prominent in Limerick at the end of this month as the city celebrates Africa Day. Minister of State for Trade and Development Jan O’Sullivan, has launched a programme of cultural and community events to mark Africa Day, with events taking place in Limerick, Dublin, and Galway. There are some 1,200 people... 

POOR children in a prosperous city are forced to scavenge for food in bins, a leading charity claimed last night. St Vincent de Paul (SVP) said two five-year-olds were spotted rooting through a bin on Kilkenny’s High Street by a local social worker in recent days. Liam Heffernan, president of Kilkenny SVP told the ‘Kilkenny People’: “I also saw an adult searching through a... 

Ireland’s Jewish community has been left deeply angered by the Irish Film and Television Awards decision to honour film star Mel Gibson. The Hollywood star is expected in Dublin for the ceremony next Sunday, but a leading Rabbi living in Ireland has launched a scathing attack on the decision to make the award in the light of Gibson’s widely publicised anti-Semitic comments made while he...