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May 14, 2015

Outgoing Master of Rotunda calls for better perinatal hospice type care

Every Life Counts has welcomed a call for increased support for families who face a life-limiting diagnosis for their unborn baby. Dr Sam Coulter Smyth, the outgoing Master of the Rotunda, wrote to Dr Tony Holohan the Chief Medical Officer of the HSE asking for better services for families.

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December 4, 2013

Powerful report on RTE's Drivetime shows Every Life Counts

A recent Drivetime report on RTÉ radio made a powerful case for perinatal hospice as an alternative to abortion and is well worth listening to if you missed it first time around.

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July 9, 2010

Three FF Senators resign whip over Civil Partnership Bill

Mary Minihan reports in the Irish Times that three Fianna Fáil Senators resigned the party whip yesterday because of their objections to elements of the Civil Partnership Bill

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February 17, 2010

UK families hit by massive tax penalty

A new study by the British charity CARE has found that married couples with children are paying a third more in tax than similar families in other developed countries. The charity said the report highlighted what it called a “socially destructive inequality in the UK tax...

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February 17, 2010

More Irish children in care: Director of Childcare turned hose on girl

A HSE report has revealed an increase in the number of Irish children taken into care in 2009. Figures presented to a meeting of the HSE last month showed there were 5,694 children in care at the end of November 2009, up from 5,396 in January 2009 – a 5.5 per cent increase.

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January 26, 2010

Family forms character, says political leader

The leader of the British Conservative Party leader David Cameron has said that character-formation and personal responsibility are the key to tackling a host of social problems, and the evidence suggests that character is formed in the home.

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