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Peter Boylan
@drboylan
Doctor, Sailor (Capn Pug), Dad Author "In the Shadow of the Eighth", Penguin 2019
Dublin
Joined November 2011
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    Peter Boylan
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    Jul 30, 2023
    My letter 29 July 2023 The wrong hospital in the wrong place 'New NMH planned 10 years ago for 10,000 births but demographics incl falling birth rates/numbers especially in NMH/SVHG catchment area of south county Dublin mean NMH births are down 31%'
    irishtimes.com
    The wrong hospital in the wrong place
    Government appears to be bent on throwing good money after bad
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 16, 2022
    Thank you to the person who sent me these pictures taken an hour ago in the “fully secular” St Vincent’s Hospital Mass in hospital oratory ☑️ Mass on hospital TV ☑️ Blessed Sacrament exposed daily ☑️ Stations of the Cross ☑️ Core Values of Sisters of Charity posted on campus ☑️
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 13, 2022
    Thanks to all the colleagues and friends sending me screenshots and copies of internal briefings in @FineGael and @fiannafailparty making out I'm "past it" and don't know what I'm talking about! Doesn't bother me and I won't stop fighting for true independence of @_TheNMH
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 24, 2018
    Very interesting, looks like the bots have moved on from me. Nothing insulting in the past few hours. A portent? Please get out and vote YES #Together4YES #Repealthe8 #8thref #voteYes
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 3, 2022
    This morning we learn that the US Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v Wade In Ireland @DonnellyStephen is bringing a Memo to Cabinet to gift the National Maternity Hospital to a private Catholic charity Women's reproductive rights being rolled back
    Supreme court voted to overturn Roe v Wade abortion law, leaked draft opinion reportedly shows
    From theguardian.com
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 10, 2022
    Pat McCann was factually incorrect to claim this morning that elective sterilisations and terminations are currently done at St Vincent's St Vincent's do sterilisations when they are "clinically required" but "not for the exclusive purpose of sterilisation" This is serious 🧵
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    Jun 21, 2021
    The Tánaiste is 100% wrong about Catholic ethos in Holles Street. In making that mistake he precisely proves my point about the critical issue of the ownership of the land on which the new National Maternity Hospital is to be built. Let me explain in this thread... 1/7
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    NewstalkFM
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    Jun 21, 2021
    Leo Varadkar said that when he trained at Holles St, he never felt there was a nun or a priest looking over his shoulder. #OnTheRecordNT newstalk.com/news/varadkar-…
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    Mar 3, 2021
    Replying to @drboylan
    A private charity with stated Catholic values must not be given the ownership of a €500 million State-funded maternity hospital @roinnslainte @HSELive @DonnellyStephen @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar
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    Peter Boylan
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    May 9, 2022
    A lot of false information and errors of fact in this document from @FineGael I will go through them point by point: 1) It is both an exaggeration and scaremongering to say that the NMH is not "fit for purpose". Like every hospital in Ireland, there are problems, BUT ...
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    Peter Boylan
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    May 15, 2022
    The nuns are gone from the schools too, Simon We all know the ageing nuns and priests have gone from the classrooms and hospitals But Catholic control lives on in 90% of primary schools and in the Mater, Bon Secours, Mercy Hospitals, SVHG So naive🧵
    'The nuns are gone' - Simon Harris defends National Maternity Hospital | Newstalk
    From newstalk.com
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    Peter Boylan
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    Jul 31, 2023
    Me too, 1994, Archbishop Desmond Connell ( He of mental reservation fame) summoned me to his palace because I wanted to allow women make their own decisions about their future fertility.
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    ✳☃🆗Andrew Brennan✳☃🆎
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    Jul 31, 2023
    Dr. Noel Browne had to contend with Archbishop McQuaid, whose idea of healthcare for women was sprinkling 'holy' water in the Operating Theatre. #NoelBrowne #SevenAges
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    Peter Boylan
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    Mar 3, 2021
    #RTEInvestigates Shocking and harrowing A short thread To think that in 2016 the Minister for Health agreed to the Mulvey Report that the new National Maternity Hospital would be given 100% to the Sisters of Charity. And btw the Sisters still own St Vincent's Healthcare Group...
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    Peter Boylan
    @drboylan
    May 15, 2022
    Shabby and undignified by the Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD to scaremonger about the neonatal intensive care unit at the NMH today At best a new hospital will take years to build. In the interim spreading misinformation about the truly excellent NICU is poor nmh.ie/your-baby/neon…
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    Peter Boylan
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    May 17, 2022
    Here is the letter I wrote 6 years ago to @LeoVaradkar as Minister for Health re concerns about NMH and SVHG Government has done nothing in these years and today will gift the National Maternity Hospital to private vested interests @FineGael @fiannafailparty @greenparty_ie