Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer
Ladies and Gentlemen – please give a hand for your Chief Medical Officer By Contributor 7th May 2021
The role of CMO has increased in profile in the last year. It was always meant for the backroom writes
Charles Lysaght
A feature of the Coronovirus crisis has been the emergence of the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health,
Dr Tony Holohan and his deputy
Dr Ronan Glynn, as a major national figures giving advice in public that has not always been that welcome to the government. Speaking for their Department, they have dwarfed their minister, and there has been no Secretary-General in sight.
Robert Watt may seek to rein in Tony Holohan
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Watt may seek to rein in Holohan
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State abandoned in 1947 proposed investigation into almost 700 Bessborough deaths Decision came after the Co Cork mother and baby home was temporarily closed
Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 01:00 Donal O Keeffe
Between 1922 and in December 1946, 674 children died at Bessborough mother and baby home. File photograph: Provision
The State in 1947 abandoned a threatened special investigation into the deaths of nearly 700 children at the Bessborough mother and baby home, but warned that it could resume if the institution’s infant-mortality rate did not fall.
The decision to halt the investigation came after the State’s chief medical adviser, Dr James Deeny, had temporarily closed the Cork home and sacked the Sacred Heart nun then in charge.