Yearly Archives: 2013

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9031081690310830 Aja Teehan and her husband Charles Brand top, outside the High Court following the judgment found against her application to have a home birth with a midwife contracted to the HSE.

Ms Teehan, who previously had a caesarean section, was told

the HSE does allow home births under the terms of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between themselves and independent midwives who to carry out home births. Under those terms, the HSE has agreed to indemnify independent midwives under terms which exclude potentially risky births include vaginal birth after Caesarean section (Vbac) which Ms Teehan wants to have.

…Changing the criteria for women who want to have such births would be a “clinical decision, based on assessment of the risks involved which the court is not entitled to make”

 

Woman Loses Legal Challenge To Home Birth Ruling (Irish Times)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Rob Heffernan and Marian Heffernan at their joint press conference in the prestigious Oak Cafe, top, and at arrivals at Terminal 2, Dublin airport, above, moments ago.

Luckily Rob packs his own lunch.

Via Dublin Airport, Colin Griffin and Tianna

Update:

903108729031087190310870Rob and Marian arriving from Moscow at Dublin airprot and with their children, Megan and Cathal.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

 

Krug081613krugman1-blog480He’s back.

Kenneth Thomas analyzes the latest attempt to claim that Ireland is a success story — is this the third or the fourth time around? — and concludes that the modest fall in unemployment is all about emigration. Actually, we can reach the same conclusion by going straight to employment data (above).
This is not exactly a policy triumph.
The one sense in which Ireland has made some progress is that it has somewhat reassured bond investors that its population will continue to sullenly acquiesce in austerity; as a result, Irish 10-year rates, while still at a large premium, are now 60-80 basis points below those of Italy and Spain.
But the repeated invocation of Ireland as a role model has gotten to be a sick joke.

Dude.

It’s Friday.


Ireland Is The Success Story Of The Future, And Always Will Be (Paul Krugman, New York Times)