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RTE R1’s Morning Ireland today reported on pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline’s links with Sligo Institute of Technology and its plans to expand its Stiefel plant in Co Sligo (above).

GlaxoSmithKline, in its previous incarnation Burroughs Wellcome, was the company which carried out vaccine trials on children in care homes throughout Ireland in 1930, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1961, 1965, 1971 and 1973.

Its 2009 decision to close the Stiefel Laboratory was reversed in 2012 following the return of records relating to the trials by the Child Abuse Commission.

In 2010 the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children requested these records from Glaxo Smith Kline, which indicated that although prepared to hold the records for the foreseeable future, it would not hand them over without a court order.

The government has yet to state whether or not the proposed inquiry into mother and baby homes will include vaccine trials carried out in these homes.

Previously: Medical Trials And Children Of Lesser Gods

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Over 9,000 families are to lose their One-Parent Family Payment from today.
The change is dependent on the age of the claimant’s children, along with when the payment began…
By this time next year, almost 60,000 families will have lost the One-Parent Family Payment. “What it actually means for the nearly 60,000 families that are going to be moved off next year is that a lot of them are going to be down money, and they are already extraordinarily poor families, who are finding it difficult to make ends meet”, said Karen Kiernan, chief executive of One Family…

Like a boss.

9,000 one-parent families lose payment from today (RTE)

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile…

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Eamon Gimore at the launch of the Right to read Campaign in Charleville Mall Library in Dublin City this morning.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

 

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Meanwhile: Moore Street trader claimes she was ‘turfed out’ (Irish Times)

Previously: Say No To Chartered Land

The Rotten Fruit Of Moore Street

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Part of the Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular festival hoo ha.

Five of the finest illustrators active in Dublin create five ‘spectacular’ artworks depicting  the city in an exhibition at Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin  run with Smithfield, Dublin-based screen printers  Damn Fine Print.

Oh go on then.

City Spectacular present some Damn Fine Prints (Filmbase)

Thanks Spaghetti Hoop

The DUP and UUP have said that they are ending their participation in the leaders’ talks, branding them “fruitless”.
The joint unionist statement adds: “We have bound ourselves together to defend our community and culture from the callous disregard of those who pander to republican demands.
“We will not see our communities destroyed, police and civilians injured, and young people left with criminal records.” The statement claims that the Parades Commission has rewarded “republican threats of violence”.

Talks Collapse After Ardoyne Ruling (UTV)

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