Kildare Focus 25.05.22

Kildare Focus

Wednesday, 25 May 2022 - 35 minutes

Alan Edge
Campaign Officer for Ban Conversion Therapy, LGBT Ireland
• LGBT Ireland, the lead organisation in the Ban Conversion Therapy Campaign, is calling on Kildare Oireachtas members to support a ban on conversion therapy

Dr. Frances McGinnity
Associate Research Professor, ESRI
• Growing Up in Ireland – What do we need to know about being a young adult in a post-COVID Ireland

Alana Ryan
Women's Health Coordinator, National Women’s Council of Ireland
• Half the counties in Ireland have fewer than 10 GPs providing abortion services, including Carlow, Laois & Offaly
• Kildare has between 10 & 20 GPs in the county offering services

Ellen Jennings
Communications Officer, Bodywhys
• Orthorexia – an unhealthy focus on eating in a healthy way