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This Week’s Health Industry News
Source: New York Times
By DUFF WILSON One year ago this week, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The anniversary will be marked by a series of events from proponents and opponents of the law who are still waging a pitched battle over…
Resource type: News
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Non-EU parents of citizens entitled to residency, court rules
Source: The Irish Times
by Carol Coulter, Legal Affairs EditorIN A ruling with major implications for Irish policy, the European Court of Justice has ruled that the non-EU parents of an EU citizen child must be allowed to live and work in that EU state. Until 2005 all children…
Resource type: News
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Interview with EPIM Chair Ms Juliet Prager
In this video Ms. Juliet Prager gives an overview of EPIM, the European Programme for Integration and Migration, which was initiated in 2005 by a group of foundations from different European countries. It aims to strengthen the role played by NGOs active on migration and integration…
Resource type: Video
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Renewed vision of the Irish social model must be delivered
Source: The Irish Times
The next government will need to develop a coherent vision for those in need of support at various stages of their lives, write PAT DOLAN, TOM SCHARF and GERARD QUINN THE NEXT government will have to stand back from the legacy of the past and develop a much more…
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The writing is on the wall for child literacy
Source: Irish Examiner
By Eleanor McCloreyChild literacy is not a priority on the political or public agenda. This must change, writes Eleanor McClorey IT’S time to spell it out — Ireland has a child literacy emergency. One afternoon last month four children from Ballymun were collected from primary…
Resource type: News
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Alliance calls for action on ageing
Source: The Irish Times
By Aoife Carr Shauna Golden of Castleknock Community College, Older and Bolder director Patricia Conboy, and Bernard Bryanof of, Cabra Historical & Cultural Society hand in 43,000 signed petitions in defence of the State Pension at Leinster House last month. A group representing older people has said…
Resource type: News
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Imagining great Irish culture
Source: Irish Central
by Paul KeatingThe political and economic news from Ireland continues to spin out of control seemingly in a more troubled downward spiral as the government collapses, and the citizenry hopes to change that direction with new elections.The doom and gloom cycle continues unabated, so it…
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Health Reform Repeal Would Harm Children
Source: First Focus Campaign for Children
United Sates House of Representatives Votes to Turn Back the Clock on Health Care for Kids Washington D.C. - Today, the United States House of Representatives voted in favor of repealing The Affordable Care Act. The First Focus Campaign for Children, a bipartisan children’s advocacy…
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The forgotten parents
Source: Irish Times
Although the civil partnership legislation that came into force on January 1st recognises same-sex couples for matters such as tax, pensions and inheritance, it does not acknowledge they might have children, writes SHEILA WAYMAN. PAULA FAGAN’S partner was working abroad when their eldest, asthmatic son…
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First gay couple to have civil partnership recognised
Source: Irish Times
By CARL O'BRIEN. GLENN CUNNINGHAM and Adriano Vilar have become the first gay couple in the State to have their civil partnership formally recognised by the State.The couple, who work at Argos, formed a civil partnership at a ceremony in Northern Ireland last year.Like other…
Resource type: News