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  • Ormonde Brick slammed in EU report

    NEW trials carried out on the farm of Dan Brennan, outside Castlecomer, show his cattle thrived and plants grew normally while the Ormonde Brick plant was closed. It is alleged that the new study being carried out by the department of agriculture noted that once the factory reopened the cattle stopped putting on weight. It […]

  • Nothing Like a Guiness Beer with a Fluoride Chaser

    GUINNESS gives you a good pint and fluoride, much to the annoyance of a Dublin nun spearheading an anti-fluoride campaign. Guinness Ireland has disclosed that Dublin stout can have as much as six times the fluoride level of stout brewed in London. The reason: the Park Royal Brewery in London uses unfluoridated water in a […]

  • Fine Gael election promise to ban fluoride in drinking water

    FINE GAEL has pledged to end the controversial compulsory practice of adding fluoride to all drinking water because of “serious health concerns”. And, if elected, the party will also order every health board to investigate existing levels of fluoride in groundwater supplies. “Fine Gael believes that there are sufficient grounds to point to serious health […]

  • 27% of three-year-olds have tooth decay

    More than 20% of eight-year-olds, 50% of 12-year-olds and 75% of 15-year-olds have experienced decay in their permanent teeth. Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood and the level of tooth decay is higher among Irish children than their UK counterparts, according to a leading researcher on oral health. Dr Carmel Parnell, […]

  • Act on fluoride study now

    Why wait another three years before John Gormley’s fluoride safety study is ready (Irish Independent, February 13) when he, like the rest of Europe, has already found fluoridation to be both unsafe and ineffective? It took him years of researching the international evidence (because no independent studies have ever been done here), and he brought […]

  • Gormley’s fluoride safety study won’t be ready until 2012

    A study on the safety of fluoride in public drinking supplies will not be available until 2012 – more than five years after Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government. It is already nearly three years since the study was promised in the Programme for Government. But the […]

  • Guinness gives you fluoride!

    Guinness Ireland recently admitted that Guinness brewed in St. James Gate, Dublin, has high levels of fluoride. In a recent response, to a request for information, they clearly stated that, “Dublin stout has 6 times the fluoride level of London stout.” Moreover, the Guinness website (www.guinness.com) declares that, “the water used in the brewing process […]

  • Sister Rachel acts to rid Dublin pints of fluoride

    GUINNESS gives you a good pint and fluoride, much to the annoyance of a Dublin nun spearheading an anti-fluoride campaign. Guinness Ireland has disclosed that Dublin stout can have as much as six times the fluoride level of stout brewed in London. The reason: the Park Royal Brewery in London uses unfluoridated water in a […]

  • Kerry to assess health risks of fluoride

    The long-term health risks of placing fluoride into drinking water at source is to be raised at tomorrow’s meeting of Kerry county council. The issue is also expected to be raised at four other local authorities during the next few months. This follows Kildare county council’s decision last month to investigate fluoride levels in water […]

  • “Truth decay” by officialdom erodes confidence in water fluoridation.

    In a two-part investigation, Rory Hafford talks to Dr. Don Mac Auley about his battle with the health boards to get to the bottom of the fluoridation debate. Dr. Don Mac Auley has been concerned about the health effects of fluoridation for some time. So much so, the Navan-based dentist raised the matter with the […]