{"id":108,"date":"2009-04-20T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-04-21T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T12:44:15","slug":"irish-euthanasia-lecture-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/20\/irish-euthanasia-lecture-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Euthanasia Lecture Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A curious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2009\/0418\/1224244975850.html\">story from the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/a>: a lecture by Len Doyal on euthanasia had to be cancelled after disruption from protesters: he&#8217;s now complained to the President.\u00a0 The protesters apparently shouted obscenities and, er, the Rosary.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/hiddenireland.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/11\/ur-lady-sends-euthenasia-speaker-running-from-cork-university-hospital\/\">more details here<\/a>.\u00a0 In the meantime, I just can&#8217;t help myself:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mWRycEKoVtY\/ReUbHQXvctI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/2DHOp9Uag38\/s320\/FATHER_TED_Down_with_this_sort_of_thing.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Thanks to Richard Ashcroft and Sorcha U\u00ed\u00a0Chonnachtaigh for the pointer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The HSE &#8211; that&#8217;s the Irish version of the NHS &#8211; has issued a statement on the incident, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.ie\/eng\/News\/Regional_Tab\/Cork_University_Hospital_Ethics_Forum_lecture_on_Euthanasia_cancelled.shortcut.html\">available here<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curious story from the Irish Times: a lecture by Len Doyal on euthanasia had to be cancelled after disruption from protesters: he&#8217;s now complained to the President.\u00a0 The protesters apparently shouted obscenities and, er, the Rosary. There are more details here.\u00a0 In the meantime, I just can&#8217;t help myself: \u00a0Thanks to Richard Ashcroft and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/20\/irish-euthanasia-lecture-cancelled\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[963,511,591,475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios","category-in-the-news","category-life-and-death","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}