latest news: in Ireland
Showing 10 of 321 Articles:
-
Ireland: The Campaign against the Fluoridation of Drinking Water
With upcoming local and European elections one of Ireland’s main parties (Fine Gael) has now announced that they will abolish the policy of nationwide drinking water fluoridation… NOTE FROM FAN: We have removed this article as it contained outdated information that was published in 2001. Print PDF
Ireland -
Fluoride-free town calls for rethink on mandatory water fluoridation
A West Cork town has been designated Ireland’s first fluoride-free town, fuelling talk that the initiative could spread nationwide. The designation was conferred on Bantry over the weekend after six businesses installed filtration systems they say will give their customers the choice to consume food and drinks prepared with fluoride-free water. Owen Boyden, the co-ordinator […]
Ireland -
Irish Water facing litigation, warns ‘Girl Against Fluoride’
AISLING Fitzgibbon, better known as ‘The Girl Against Fluoride’, has send an open letter to Irish Water warning them of litigation if they fail to stop artificially fluoridating Ireland’s public water supply. The issue has come under the spotlight over the last year, with town councils in Macroom, Skibbereen and Clonakilty all backing a ban […]
Ireland -
11 interesting motions to be considered at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis this weekend
SINN FÉIN IS gathering in Wexford this weekend for the party’s annual Ard Fheis where delegates will hear from senior party figures and ordinary members over the next two days. As well as a copy of the 1916 Proclamation and a helpful glossary of Irish terms translated into English, the clár or agenda for the […]
Ireland -
Macroom Town Council latest to back ban on fluoride in public water supply
MACROOM Town Council at their latest meeting added their support to the increasing number of town council’s across the country that have called for an end to public water fluoridation in Ireland. This latest development comes shortly after Bantry Town Council passed a similar motions and builds on the the public stance taken by Skibbereen […]
Ireland -
Fluoride: Interview with Thomas Sheridan
There are times when the official attitude to fluoride seems like a textbook case of psychopathology in action. So says author Thomas Sheridan, who has made a study of institutional psychopaths. Thomas Sheridan worked on Wall Street as a communications and design consultant from 1990 to 1998. The Dubliner was struck by “the lack of […]
Ireland -
Bantry Town Council calls for end to water fluoridation
Bantry Town Council at it’s most recent meeting on Tuesday evening 14th January 2014 made history by joining Skibbereen, Clonakilty and other town councils across the country in calling for an immediate end to water fluoridation in Ireland. Bantry Town Councillor’s unanimously passed a motion proposed by Bantry Town Councillor Diarmaid Murphy calling for the […]
Ireland -
Can fluoridation explain a high cancer increase?
Cancer incidence in Ireland is 85 per cent above the European region average and 43 per cent above the EU. The incidence of prostate cancer in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) is the highest of all the 30 European countries and has also been reported to be more than 60 per cent higher than the […]
Ireland -
Limerick: ‘No fluoride or no water charge’ call to council
WITH Limerick householders due to start paying for domestic water usage next year, Labour Party councillor Orla McLoughlin told City Council this week that she did not want to pay the new charge if there was fluoride in her water. Excessive exposure to fluoride in drinking water has been linked by the World Health Organisation […]
Ireland -
Stagg calls for end to fluoride in water
Time has run out for “mass medication” by adding fluoride to the water supply, the Labour Party conference was told. During a trenchant debate about alleged possible dangers of fluoridation, Labour chief whip Emmet Stagg said there was no means of measuring the amount of water people drank. It varied from person to person from […]
Ireland
Print 
PDF