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Senior Counsel Stephen Dodd has reviewed the legal documents published by the HSE regarding the new National Maternity Hospital governance, structure and ownership. Counsel has very significant concerns having read the documents. There are a number of key concerns. The ownership of the National Maternity Hospital buildings is to be…

Uplift members have taken action on issues of health and gender equality, amongst other issues, for many years. One of the key defining values of Uplift is deep democracy, and members engage in deep listening and engagement at times of public consultation.  As a community, we welcomed the opportunity to…

As a community, we’ve long fought to keep our National Maternity Hospital public and secular. We’ve built a massive petition, marched in the streets, emailed and called politicians, paid for legal advice, public opinion polls and newspaper ads. You can read all about that in our blog here Our best…

We’re closer than ever to legalising Cannabis in Ireland. The pressure is on to have a Citizens’ Assembly on drugs this year, and the Minister responsible, Frank Feighan, has said that he wants to ‘end the war on drugs’.   But, this Government is still insisting that legalising Cannabis isn’t…