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Ellen Coyne

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Ellen Coyne

    Removing three-day wait would lead to rise in ‘already massive’ number of abortions, GP says (opens the original)

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    There would be a “further rise” in the number of terminations in Ireland if a mandatory three-day wait were removed, according to two anti-abortion GPs who gave evidence against the reform to TDs and senators. Dr Andrew O’Regan and Dr Kirsten Fuller were speaking in a personal capacity as citizens at the Oireachtas health committee on Wednesday. Neither O’Regan nor Fuller have experience providing termination of pregnancy services, as both conscientiously object to abortion. Both decline

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Ellen Coyne

    Three-day abortion wait hits women in ‘straitened circumstances’ hardest, HSE says (opens the original)

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    Women in “straitened circumstances” are more affected by a mandatory three-day wait for abortions than those who are better off financially, according to the HSE. An Oireachtas committee considering a new law that would lift the mandatory 72-hour delay heard evidence on Wednesday that international studies have shown that such policies do not change abortion rates or birth rates, and that mandatory waits contribute to “financial, emotional” costs for women. The Health (Abolition of Three

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Ellen Coyne

    Inpatient hospital treatment rises just 2% despite 52% spending increase, data shows (opens the original)

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    The health service only increased its most demanding and costly form of hospital care by only 2 per cent over the last six years, despite a 52 per cent rise in real spending and its workforce growing by a third. The small increase relates specifically to inpatient activity including people treated in emergency departments and those with acute illnesses. It means there was little improvement in the pace at which the Health Service Executive (HSE) was delivering acute hospital care, including in e

  4. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Ellen Coyne

    Bill to remove three-day abortion wait likely to pass despite division in Government (opens the original)

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    The basement of Leinster House is haunted by one of Ireland’s most exigent and enduring political issues. It was often in committee room two, under harsh yellow lights, that many politicians spent fractious hours debating what became the end of the Eighth Amendment eight years ago. In the same room on Wednesday, many TDs who weren’t even in national politics for the 2018 referendum became the latest generation of Irish politicians to find themselves debating the issue of abortion. “I am on

  5. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Ellen Coyne

    EU to bring in minimum age limit of 15 to set up social-media accounts (opens the original)

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    Children across Europe will not be allowed to set up their own social media accounts until they are 15 under a new tiered age limit system designed to limit access among minors. The European Commission is this week set to unveil its landmark EU Kids Act, which is designed to set uniform age limits for children and impose safe design requirements on companies such as Meta and TikTok. The key policy, to be announced by commission president Ursula von der Leyen this week and published on Thursday,

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