Drug was removed from most markets in 1961 following links to birth defects, but was sold in Ireland until 1964 ...
The Irish Thalidomide Association (ITA) met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris on Thursday afternoon to ...
The Government has met Thalidomide survivors in Dublin and outlined a series of measures to help them, including the provision of medical cards.
A Kerry member of the Thalidomide Association says the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have taken responsibility for the process for ...
The two leaders confirmed that the health minister has agreed to provide discretionary medical cards to unacknowledged ...
The man on the bus was staring at her. Carolyn Farmer, 17, noticed him as she closed the Leon Uris novel “Exodus” and gathered her things. It was 1979, and she knew what it was like to have strangers ...
Thalidomide survivors are hoping that a meeting with the Taoiseach and Tánaiste will result in “a shift in the dial” for the ...
Tarbert native and Ireland’s youngest Thalidomide survivor, John Stack, told The Kerryman this week that, following a meeting at the Government Buildings in Dublin with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and ...
The drug thalidomide was withdrawn in 1961 after it was shown to have caused birth defects in thousands of children worldwide ...
Thalidomide survivors tell the Taoiseach and Tánaiste it’s time for the State to finally apologise and deliver lasting ...