# marie-fleming - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
Prominent Right to Die with Dignity campaigner Tom Curran appeared before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality today.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 15 December, 2015
Independent TD John Halligan introduced ‘right to die’ legislation in the Dáil today.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 5 May, 2015
Tom Curran said TDs are ‘willing to break ranks’ to support his right-to-die law.
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# marie-fleming - Monday 13 April, 2015
The first trial of a person charged for assisting suicide will take place this year.
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# marie-fleming - Saturday 3 January, 2015
Here’s a look at the situation in other countries.
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# marie-fleming - Saturday 30 August, 2014
Tom Curran, the partner of campaigner Marie Fleming who died last year, says new legislation he’s been working on is almost complete.
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# marie-fleming - Sunday 13 July, 2014
Tom Curran, partner of Marie Fleming, has welcomed the news that Savitex will be available to patients in Ireland.
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# marie-fleming - Friday 13 June, 2014
Good idea? Bad idea?
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# marie-fleming - Thursday 12 June, 2014
Smoking cannabis helped with pain, spasms and to lift her mood, Tom Curran revealed today.
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# marie-fleming - Sunday 9 March, 2014
The partner of Marie Fleming, whose court battle ignited a national campaign on right-to-die issues, is running in the the local elections this May.
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# marie-fleming - Saturday 8 March, 2014
Tom Curran has asked a group of barristers to draft legislation on the issue, and says the initial work could be completed by the start of next month.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 14 January, 2014
Dignitas helped a total of 202 people to die last year.
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# marie-fleming - Sunday 22 December, 2013
The grief and mourning for the 59-year-old was palpable in Avoca today.
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# marie-fleming - Friday 20 December, 2013
She was 59 years old.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 26 November, 2013
It emerged today that MS sufferer Marie Fleming was asked by the HSE to provide proof of her condition in order to have her medical card renewed.
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Today everyone’s been talking about the HSE’s €2.6 million payout, Marie Fleming being asked to provide proof of her illness and why President Higgins’ adviser left her job.
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# marie-fleming - Thursday 21 November, 2013
Eamon Gilmore has said that the issue of assisted suicide should be addressed in response to questions in the Dáil this morning.
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# marie-fleming - Wednesday 29 May, 2013
Enda Kenny was asked to ‘show some compassion’ to the family of terminally ill Marie Fleming and consider changes to the law.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Yesterday, Marie Fleming was told in the Supreme Court that her ‘right to die’ appeal was being dismissed – but a judge said that the Oireachtas could legislate to deal with cases such as this.
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There was standing-room only in the small courtroom on Monday morning as the 7 judges ruled that Marie Fleming, who has MS, did not have the right to end her own life with help from her partner.
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# marie-fleming - Monday 29 April, 2013
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Today, seven judges from the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Marie Fleming, who had sought to be allowed an assisted suicide without the risk of prosecution for anyone who helped her, but where to next with this contentious debate, asks Dr Eimear Spain.
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Chief Justice Susan Denham said the circumstances were “very tragic” but that there was no Constitutional ‘right to die’.
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# marie-fleming - Thursday 25 April, 2013
The court will deliver a verdict in the case of Marie Fleming who is seeking to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.
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# marie-fleming - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, wants to overturn the laws which make it a criminal offence to help someone take their own life.
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# marie-fleming - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
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By not ordering the DPP to issue guidelines on factors which would influence a prosecution for carrying out an assisted suicide, Marie Fleming and others in her situation have been left in legal limbo, writes Dr Eimear Spain.
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Marie Fleming, who has multiple sclerosis, is to take her court case to the Supreme Court after she lost a High Court case on the ban on assisted suicide.
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# marie-fleming - Thursday 10 January, 2013
Marie Fleming, who suffers from terminal multiple sclerosis, fails in her attempt to have suicide laws declared unconstitutional.
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MS sufferer Marie Fleming has challenged Ireland’s ban on assisted suicide, saying she faces a long and “horrible death” if not allowed to die on her own terms.
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# marie-fleming - Friday 14 December, 2012
Marie Fleming, who has MS, is challenging criminal law on the issue of it being an offence to help a person take their own life.
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