New Irish Institute to Tackle Ethical Issues:27th Aug 08
DCU to be the Home of New Ethics Insitute
A new ethics institute is to be set up at Dublin City University (DCU) later this year to look at ethical issues across the board,...More >>
Irish Award for Adult Stem Treatment for Arthritis Discovery:25th Jul 08
"This is a Highly Complex Study, But One that Holds Particular Promise"
In Ireland, Trinity College Dublin’s Dr Daniel Kelly has won the President's €1 million Young...More >>
Ireland Must not Assume that Destructive Embryo Research Won’t Happen:19th Jun 08
Call on Irish Government to Introduce Legislation to Protect the Embryo
According to an “Irish Catholic” newspaper reader, Máirtín Ó Maolruaidh, “most right-thinking people...More >>
Irish Council for Bioethics Report on Destructive Embryo Research,...:28th May 08
"Why is it then, that successes with adult stem cells have been largely ignored while embryonic stem cells, which have never been used successfully to treat a single human person, have been...More >>
‘The Stem Cell Rubicon is a River We Dare Not Cross’—Recommendation of Irish...:27th May 08
"For the First Time in Our History We Will Permit One Class of Human Beings to be Destroyed for the Sake of Another Class of Human Beings”
So, we will soon be crossing another...More >>
Thirteen Flaws in the 'Incoherent, Confusing and Devoid of Reason Report of...:23rd May 08
Thirteen Flaws in the Report of the Council for Bioethics—Unusable for Public Policy. Report Criticised for Being 'Confusing, Incoherent and Devoid of Explicit, Systematic Ethical...More >>
Results of 'The Irish Times' Poll on Embryo Research:21st May 08
Overwhelming Majority Don't Want Irish Government to Legislate for Destructive Embryo Research—Results of ‘The Irish Times’ Poll on Embryo Research: ‘Should the State legislate for embryonic...More >>
The Irish Council for Bioethics Criticised for Being ‘Utilitarian’:20th May 08
"The idea of the Irish Council for Bioethics granting 'significant moral value'' to human embryos would be amusing if it were not so arrogant"
The Irish Council for Bioethics...More >>
Harvard 'Expert' Challenged on Embryo Views:19th May 08
Report of Stem Cell Research—Debate Continues. Harvard 'Experts' Views on Embryo "a Classic Example of Jumbled Thought'
Professor Vincent Twomey SVD, writing recently in "The...More >>
Panel of Experts Challenge ICB Report on Embryo Research:15th May 08
“We are writing to express our strongest possible dissent from the ICB with regard to destructive research on human embryos. This opinion has no sound ethical, medical or scientific...More >>