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No to Symphysiotomy Inquiry
“If Minister Harney was in my body even for one day we would have the review the next day”. Kathleen Naughton, Survivors of Symphysiotomy Following last night’s Prime Time report on symphysiotomy, the...
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Symphysiotomy in the Courts: Kearney v. McQuillan
On Friday the Supreme Court cleared the way for Louth woman Olivia Kearney to bring an action in respect of the symphysiotomy which was performed on her in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda in...
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Kearney v McQuillan: Religion, Harm and History.
In March, in Kearney v. McQuillan Mr. Justice Ryan (pictured left) awarded damages in the amount of €450,000 to Olivia Kearney; a 60 year old woman who was subjected to a symphysiotomy by Dr. Gerard...
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Symphisiotomy and the Statute of Limitations
We are delighted to welcome the following guest post from Marie O’Connor, Chairperson of Survivors of Symphysiotomy (SoS) and author of Bodily Harm: symphysiotomy and pubiotomy in Ireland 1944-92 The...
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The Trouble with Redress – Symphysiotomy and Other Failures.
In recent days, we have heard a lot from the Government about the scars of past institutional abuses of power in Ireland. We know that women and children were subjected to routine and varied abuses of...
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What’s Wrong With The Murphy Redress Scheme?
The report of the Independent Review of Issues Relating to Symphysiotomy is out. So too, at long last, is Prof. Oonagh Walsh’s final Report on Symphysiotomy in Ireland 1944 -1984. If you need a...
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Ireland before the UNHRC.
I am in Geneva as part of the Irish NGO delegation to Ireland’s 4th Periodic Review under the ICCPR.* Readers will be aware that the UN Human Rights Committee heard testimony early yesterday from some...
View ArticleNegligence, Symphysiotomy and Past Harm.
Women wrongfully subjected to symphysiotomy in Ireland have human rights to an acknowledgement and apology, to guarantees against repetition, to measures of restitution and rehabilitation and to...
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