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AVA BARRY WILL be home for Christmas, her mother Vera has confirmed.
The news comes after Health Minister Simon Harris confirmed he has signed a licence for Cork girl Ava (7) to use medicinal cannabis.
Vera Twomey has been leading an ongoing campaign to allow her daughter Ava to receive such products in Ireland to help with her condition. Ava suffers from a severe form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome, and can suffer from several seizures a day.
Her family has been campaigning for her to be allowed access CBD oil.
CBD is a cannabidiol and is legal in Ireland because it does not contain any THC, the psychoactive part of the cannabis plant.
https://www.facebook.com/vera.twomey/videos/10155796655885420/
In a video posted to Facebook today, Vera Twomey confirmed the news.
“Ava has been granted the licence for the medical cannabis and we are coming home.
I want to thank everybody die the support and everything. We will be home for Christmas and Ava is doing really, really well.
“I just can’t wait to get her back to Aghabullogue and she will be even better there.”
The family had been living in a rented apartment in The Hague, where they said that Ava’s seizures have completely stopped since she started taking one drop of cannabis oil three times a day in the Netherlands.
Vera made headlines late last year as she started a walk from Cork to Dublin to raise the plight of her child.
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Another day, another transport strike
@ginger “Breakthrough…” This mean no striking. At least read the title, dude.
@ginger tomcat: But there’s no strikes??
No way. Actual good news?
The threat of a strike ballot should not have been necessary to make the Dublin Bus management honour their commitments.
Fair comment Dusty.
So glad the Union backed down on wanting shares in Bus Eireann for every staff member because they ‘built the company’. Common sense prevails.
The climb down in the article is clearly on the management side who have finally agreed to implement what they signed up to previously. We’ll done to the workers on forcing the management to honour their commitments. The time of the working class asking nicely is over. Militant action is the way forward.
Or in your case Dusty…. militant keyboard action
This must be playing hell with your heartburn Larry?
Alpha. Please note the article is about dublin bus.
There’s no such thing as shares in a semi state company Alfa, although The Minister for Transport is officially referred to as “The Shareholder” in the legal framework of semi state transport companies.
Pity unions why don’t you bring it down ?Justt like you did Ferenka. Didn’t think that would happen did you?. Always remember what Sir Michael Edwards said during the constant strikes in British Leyland organised by Red Robbo. ” GO back to work or I will start liquidating the company” They went back to work !!
You keep tugging your forelock to the “Sirs” there Joe. The rest of the working class will continue to fight to take what’s rightfully theirs.
They not going to shut either of the bus companies. Us tax payer will increase the subsidies and they can continue on squandering it to their hearts content.
The public transport subvention has been slashed to pay for the banker’s debts. And the taxpayer too will be paying the same banker’s debts for generations.
Well there’s a depressing thought. In both cases public money is waste and as you put it likely will be for generations come.
We get a public transport system in return for the subvention and the bill is in the millions. We get nothing for paying off the bondholders and the bill is in the billions annually.
@Dusty Mooney: Working class eh you poor man !!! Keep it up just don’t deny the truth !! If that so called class argument is all you can offer go and get your shoe shine box and conform
A very poor self serving public transport system.
So that argument means taxpayers pay twice. I suppose we could always print the money removing the need for taxpayers at all in wallyland.
No doubt some guff about the value of money, or the goods and services etc. None of which will explain, ever, how we pay for imports of life saving drugs, our cars etc except to say inflation won’t happen. Also with no example of this ever being implemented where inflation doesn’t happen.
Basically if we leave the euro we will be fine. Except when we had our own currency we weren’t. Go figure…
I never understand why management of these bus companies back themselves into a situation were a strikes takes place. All that happens is they loose revenue for a few days and then they end up surrendering to the unions and more or less giving them what they want anyway. But then of course there a you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours culture has developed over the years.
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