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Updated at 4.40pm
THE DEPARTMENT OF Health says there are no plans to hold an inquiry into allegations that the bodies of hundreds of babies born to unmarried women in Ireland’s mother and baby homes were used in medical experiments after they died.
Last night, RTÉ’s Prime Time ran a special programme uncovering how hundreds of children at Irish institutions were used for medical research and dissected by medical students without their mothers’ consent right up until the 1960s.
The research also allegedly included vaccine trials in contravention of medical guidelines on captive populations. According to the programme, children’s residential institutions and mother and baby homes provided infants who could be monitored closely.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health told TheJournal.ie today that Reilly and Fitzgerald “deeply regret any distress caused as a result of any out-dated practices which are no longer in place or acceptable”.
The department is currently working on proposals for new legislation, the Human Tissue Bill, which will “provide for a strong consent framework for the donation of bodies to anatomy schools and will reflect current practices” in relation to the donation of bodies to anatomy schools.
Utter contempt
The Adoption Rights Alliance says that questions must be asked over the failure of previous inquiries and audits to reveal the extent to which the bodies of children intended for adoption were used in medical research.
It has called on the Minister for Health James Reilly and the Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald to set up an inquiry into the claims.
The medical practices shown in the programme demonstrate an utter contempt for children born outside of marriage and for their mothers, it says. The organisation also urged Fitzgerald to introduce legislation which will provide adopted people with access to their medical records.
The Adoption Rights Alliance helpline can be reached on 086 2359127
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Sometimes I’ll switch Airplane Mode on just to pretend that I’m going to my holidays.
Handy too if you’re giving it to a child so they can play games on it with out the fear they can call everyone in your phone book.
Unfortunately with some phones you can still ring the emergency services when it’s in airplane mode as I found out after giving my phone to my daughter with airplane mode turned on. She was demanding to talk to her Nana which I thought was really cute, until I heard a voice answering her – the emergency operator was not impressed.
Airplane mode is also a great help if you’re unlucky enough to be stuck on 3 network and find yourself staring at a GPRS connection!!!!
Are people afraid to turn their phones off!!!
But this way u can avoid being disturbed while still having access to the phones other functions – alarm clock; phone notes; music etc. your phone also charges twice as fast when airplane mode is on. Handy!
For shift workers to sleep… Uninterrupted
My Nokia 6310i doesn’t have Airplane Mode mode or the Netflix.
Dose it take coins
It also has A and B buttons
Does it take coins
For gods sake…..
DOES IT.TAKE.COINS?
It only takes Punts,
But the Nokia 6310i has a battery charge that’s good for up to 17 days! My digital camera doesn’t make phone calls so I don’t want my phone to take pictures! When I’m out I don’t want anything to do with the internet. I’m happy with 10,000 minutes of calls to any network or landline for just €15 per month.
€15 per month who are you with John,I want in
TescoMobile (http://www.tescomobile.ie/) offer what they say is unlimited calls OR texts (NOT BOTH) for €15 per month if you register your Tesco Clubcard or €20 if you don’t have a Clubcard (which you can get for FREE anyway) The unlimited, under “Fair Usage policy” means not more than 10,000 minutes per month, or 5 1/2 hours a day to any Irish network or landline for 30 days. An interesting point is that your €15 still remains in your account to use for Roaming or international calls (which by the way are around 1c or 2c per minute to landlines in most countries. You can, of course, PORT your current mobile number over to the TescoMobile service easily. Note, I don’t have any connection to Tesco in any way whatsoever other then being a VERY happy customer of the service.
That sounds pretty good. Do you have a data allowance too?
For €25 I get 10000 calls,10000 texts and 15g of data on Tesco mobile sim only 30 day contract. They are on the o2 network and so far has been very reliable. And very easy to port your own number over to
That sounds like a good deal alright. Better than what I’m on at the moment by far. Thanks for that, will have to check them out …
What a ridiculous and misleading article! Turning off the phones data would do half of the things mentioned and if you really want no phone calls or text messages either then why is flight mode better than the off button?
Flight mode is so you can play games or listen to music on the plane. Not much use for anything else. Specially if your going to keep turning it on to see if you’ve missed a call or had a FB update.
I’ll give you a clue @Colin , the answer to your question is in the Article …. read it again SLOWLY this time .
Brilliant for hiding from the world on a Sunday morning when you’re feeling a little fragile ;)
Also very handy for travelling on the Underground system in London or Subway in New York, basically in any subterranean environment. Switching to airplane mode will save battery power. If you don’t the phone will be constantly searching for a signal / wifi / bluetooth signal and drain power at a fast rate.
Ah flight mode, the closest thing to a holiday this year
Well you can still do things with airplane mode on that you can’t when the device is turned off. Not just Netflix you can list to music too or play games ( in offline mode) . I find airplane mode great on my sons iPad to be honest for saving his mobile data and to stop him going online when he shouldn’t like in the middle of hospital appointments but he can still access his music while going asleep. He doesn’t know how to turn off airplane mode but is aware of mobile data Off on button It also stops you getting Skype calls and this is important when the impoverish
The mode, when switched on, makes battery charging faster.
Sorry hit reply too soon , when student runs out f credit but wants to beg over wifi lol
Aeroplane mode lol
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