The conference is now available to view on our YouTube channel here.
Hope Ireland
End of Life Matters
Saturday 6th March 2021
Online
11am-1pm
The conference will promote positive end of life care options, and resist calls to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Ireland.
Dr Sarah McLean
- Consultant in palliative medicine consultant at the Blackrock Clinic and St Vincent’s Hospital
Baroness Finlay
- Leading European palliative care consultant
- Patron of the Motor Neuron Disease Association
- Crossbench peer in the UK’s House of Lords
Joan Freeman
- Psychologist, activist and mental health champion
- Founder of Pieta House: the Centre for the Prevention of Self-harm or Suicide
- Former Senator
Elma Walsh
- Co-founder of the Donal Walsh #LiveLife Foundation
- Mother of the late Donal Walsh, the Kerry teenager who inspired the nation with his uplifting anti-suicide message
Dr Faith Cranfield
- Palliative care consultant Connolly Hospital & St Francis Hospice Blanchardstown
- MSc in Healthcare Ethics and Law, with dissertation on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Dr Miriam Colleran
- Palliative Care Consultant in Naas General Hospital
Alex Schadenberg
- Chair of the International Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Conor Lynott
- Disability rights advocate
- History and philosophy graduate UCD
- MSc Library and Information Studies
