Breaking new ground
The story of St Mary s Magherafelt s All-Ireland junior success
Simone Forbes in action during St Mary s All-Ireland Semi-Final win over St Patrick s Cork.
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Taking on the southern teams was always a significant obstacle for Ulster camogie teams, but St Mary s Magherafelt s 1996 junior team were different. Twenty-five years after being the first Ulster side to win an All-Ireland junior title, Martina Devlin (née McGuckin) looks back on the joy of making history. Michael McMullan writes.
Fantastic. It wasn t just Martina Devlin s choice of word, but it was more how she said it. With an enthusiastic tone that jumped across a conversation of a moment she will never forget.
Cork mother urges State to act on medical cannabis If the people making decisions in those offices could see those children, it would break them Noreen O Neill, who is calling for medical cannabis to be made available through the drug payment scheme and medical cads, with her son Michael. Picture: Jim Coughlan
Fri, 18 Dec, 2020 - 08:26
Liz Dunphy
Severely ill children are being left to suffer without their medication because the Government still has not allowed medical cannabis to be covered under the drug payment, medical card, or long-term illness schemes.
Noreen O’Neill, whose four-year-old son Michael is severely epileptic, said although she can technically be prescribed medicinal cannabis in Ireland, she cannot afford its €1,200 per month price tag and is buying in non-medical grade CBD oil from the UK instead for £400 (€443) per month.