For almost 50 years now I’ve suffered from a debilitating, often crippling and painful condition called Still’s Disease, a form of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis which strikes childre
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Lots of Support at local public meeting on Medicinal Cannabis Campaign
Report By Pat O’Sullivan Cork People Before Profit recently hosted a very successful Public Meeting on “The Need to Legalize Medicinal Cannabis” People Before Profit are 100% in support of the national campaign to bring in legislation in the Dail to make it available for those who have a medical need. About 60 people came…
We Need to Legalize the Use of Medicinal Cannabis Now
On December 1st Gino Kenny TD People Before Profit successfully moved a bill, that seeks to legalize cannabis for medicinal use, through the first stage of the Dail process. If passed, the bill will have a huge impact on the lives of many people who suffer from a range of chronic and incurable illnesses…
The People Before Profit Alliance in Cork supports the Cork Spina Bifida Association in their efforts to get proper care and services for children
Parents from the Cork Spina Bifida Association have highlighted the dire state of Ireland’s paediatric urology service. In an item on Newstalk’s Breakfast programme broadcast on Thursday, May 12th, Donal Guerin and Pauline O’Neill described the current failure to provide a comprehensive paediatric urology service as shocking and disgraceful. They went on to…
VARADKAR: LESS HOSPITAL BEDS WILL PUT THEM UNDER PRESSURE
We now know why the health service is in a mess. Varadkar has dropped the PR spin and revealed his true philosophy. He said ‘when they have more beds and more resources, that’s what kind of slows it down. Because they [hospital staff] don’t feel as much under pressure.’ The INMO estimates that…
We Urgently Need Proper Paediatric Urologly Care
Press Release 15/01/2016 We Urgently Need Proper Paediatric Urologly Care Jim O’Connell, People Before Profit candidate in Cork South-Central is calling on people to support the Cork Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association in their campaign for action. “I and People Before Profit in Cork support the call by the Cork Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association…
People Before Profit Call Out Fine Gael For Lying About Ending Hospital Trolley Crisis
05/01/2016 Fine Gael and the Labour Party are issuing a stream of promises about what they will do if re-elected. But the promises made in 2011 turned about to be a fiction. People Before Profit general election candidate for Cork South Central, Jim O’Connell, said: ‘In 2011, Fine Gael issued an advertisement…
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