2021 Online Conference: "End of Life Matters"

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

  • Psychlologist, 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 

2020 Webinar: "A conversation about Euthansia & Assisted Suicide"

Professor Des O’Neill

  • Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin
  • First Medical Director of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland
  • First chair of the Irish Government Working Group on Elder Abuse

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

  • 11 Time Gold Medal Paralympic Athletics Champion 
  • Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords
  • Disability Rights Advocate

Dr Sinéad Donnelly

  • Palliative Care Consultant based in New Zealand and formerly of Milford Hospice, Limerick
  • Senior Lecturer, Otago University NZ

Inaugural Conference in the RDS

Dr Kevin Fitzpatrick OBE (RIP)

  • Celebrated Disability Rights Advocate
  • Academic
  • Founding Director, Hope Ireland
  • UK Disability Rights Commission, Commissioner for Wales 2000-07

Professor Des O’Neill

  • Professor of Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin
  • First Medical Director of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland
  • First chair of the Irish Government Working Group on Elder Abuse

Alex Schadenberg

  • Chair of the International Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Amy Hasbrouck

  • Canadian Disability Rights Activist

Henk Reitsma

  • Dutch Commentator
  • Anti-Euthanasia Advocate

Tom Mortier

  • Belgian citizen
  • Has a case pending before the European Court of Human Rights in relation to the Euthanasia of his mother without the family’s knowledge