· July, 2013

Stories about Ireland from July, 2013

Ireland to Cancer Patients: Not Dying? No Financial Aid.

  16 July 2013

The anonymous Irish blogger behind the blog “Pieces of me” sends an open letter to the Irish minister of Health after the ministry decided to cut off medical reimbursements for cancer treatments, “unless their diagnosis is terminal.” As a cancer survivor, the blogger writes a poignant pamphlet: My “not such a bad diagnosis at all”, brought me...