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Irish Sunday Mirror Investigates: Activist takes on state over chemical in our water
Health problems link to high level of substance Public pressure to end fluoridation is mounting as water charges are due to kick in this summer. Protesters against the chemical compound being used have stepped up their campaign with Killarney, Co Kerry, expected to become the latest “Fluoride Free Town”. Last month, Bantry in west Cork […]
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Oral health leaders back water fluoridation
Dental industry experts gathered together today (20 March) to discuss improving global oral health to celebrate World Oral Health Day 2014. And the consensus was a common one – more work needs to be done to make good oral health a realistic goal for patients across the globe. Professor David Williams, professor of global oral […]
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Fit-again Aisling takes her case to court in bid to change decades-old legislation
Aisling Fitzgibbon has become know as The Girl Against Fluoride, and in a few weeks’ time she plans to take a case through the courts against mandatory fluoridation of the water supply. The 27-year-old occupational therapist from Tralee, Co Kerry, has practical experience of the effects of the chemical on her own health. She told […]
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Fluoride Debate: Wave of Fluorosis Cases begins
The damage caused to teeth by fluoride has been dismissed as ‘cosmetic’ by the Irish Expert Body on Health and Fluoride. But that is an outrageous minimisation of what is an increasing problem on both sides of the Atlantic. It is an issue, the courts may have to deal with… In a groundbreaking new move […]
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Editorial: Fluoridation debate must be settled
SHOULD we have flouride in our water? The question, bubbling under for a number of years at this stage, has resurfaced with news that the Government has commissioned a review of the evidence of the impact of fluoridation on public health. The review will be carried out by the Health Research Board and will examine […]
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Fluoride in Dublin water caused enamel to come off my teeth, claims student
A social studies student Martin Cullen claims fluoride in the water has caused nasty brown marks on his teeth. The 21-year-old from the Navan Road, Cabra started losing the enamel from the front of his teeth, a condition known as flurosis from the age of 12. “I was taken to the dentist to get my […]
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Cork: Campaigners celebrate council’s call for end to water fluoridation
MONDAY at County Hall was an historic and happy day for West Cork Fluoride Free Campaign (WCFFC), when a motion from Cllr Christopher O’Sullivan (Fianna Fail), calling for an immediate cessation of fluoridation of the public water supply, was supported without opposition at a meeting of Cork County Council. Prior to the meeting, Minister for […]
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Doctors deserve to know the research behind the risks
Given the gravity of the current situation regarding increasing cancer incidence and the prevalence of chronic disease in the Republic, I wish to respond in some detail to the letter of Dr Susan O’Reilly in IMT (February 14, 2014), in response to Dr Philip Michael’s letter dated January 24, 2014. Dr O’Reilly states that Dr […]
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Experts to review use of fluoride in water
An international group of consultants is to be appointed by the Government to examine the use of fluoride in the public water supply. Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney informed a meeting of Fine Gael councillors of the review yesterday ahead of a Cork County Council vote calling on the Government to ban it. Cork County Council […]
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Cork County Council calls for an immediate end to water fluoridation
The largest county council in the country passed a motion calling on the Government to legislate for change. CORK COUNTY COUNCIL unanimously passed a motion calling on the Government to stop treating the public water supply with fluoride. The motion put forward by Fianna Fáil’s Christopher O’Sullivan had cross-party support from all members of the […]
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