Monthly Archives: August 2009 - Page 2

‘Exiled’ MS patient risks arrest

Posted by on 16/08/2009 18 comments

Sunday Independent August 16 2009

A Irishman suffering from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can’t come home because his medication includes cannabis-based drugs.

Noel McCullagh, originally from Ballinasloe, Co Galway, has been told by the Irish authorities that he will be arrested if he attempts to bring his legally prescribed medication, Bediol and Bedrocan, prescribed in Holland, into Ireland.

The social inclusion unit of the HSE have told the 33-year-old that he will be arrested if he attempts to come home to his family for a visit with the medication.

But Noel McCullagh is adamant that he is not making a ‘political football’ of the issue; his life is at stake. Without the medication he is crippled with pain, at risk of convulsive seizures, and in danger of a deadly bout of encephalitis, which took the life of his baby sister Carmen.

Mr McCullough, a journalist who lives in Holland, previously required a walking stick to get around, but thanks to his medication he now cycles everywhere, and he swims 2km a day.
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History of Neglect Timeline 1858-2002

Posted by on 04/08/2009 2 comments

This timeline has been outlined textually with images in the permanent page A History of Neglect (see menu at top of page). The actual graphics for this timeline have also been recently added, and only omitted because of lack of time. However, there have been many requests for this graphical timeline, and so it is being highlighted here, and will remain for easy access under the History of Negect category.

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A History of Neglect Timeline image1The number of children committed to industrial schools by the Courts steadily declined from 833 at the time that the Irish Republic was declared in 1949 to merely 162 in 1968-69, when the industrial schools began to be closed down.
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Paddy on Channel 4 TV 1989

Posted by on 02/08/2009 9 comments

A brief film of Paddy filmed around the publication of ;The God Squad. This film was made by Channel 4 TV in 1989. It appeared out of the blue on You Tube.