Letters to the Editor: Fearless but gentle, Ivor Browne helped many people through turmoil
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Prof Ivor Browne was a once-in-a-generation human being of supreme, yet underrated, worth to the nation — often marginalised and crassly ignored by many of his clinical peers.
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There won’t be his like again.
Something of the fragile thread of clinical empathic essence has been lost with Ivor’s passing, but hopefully his free-spirited curiosity and innate inclusivity will survive and thrive to inspire “in posterum cum gaudio”.
I was sad to hear of the death of Prof Ivor Browne.
For this, I owe Prof Browne an enormous amount of gratitude.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.
Ireland needs to start reducing its intensive beef and dairy production, and start promoting eating less meat and keeping meat as a treat.
Instead, more plant-based meals should be put in the fore.
Ireland should start funding farmers to produce more pulses and incentivise exploring more varied crops.
Animal rearing should be centred around small herds of native, well-adapted breeds — which graze in order to maintain biodiversity and meadows.
Ireland can’t continue to export beef as “sustainable” and greenwash grass-fed as low carbon.
The shocking killings of Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber, and Ian Coates in Nottingham last year, by Valdo Calocane — a man suffering from paranoid schizophrenia — is a wake-up call for those advocates who are calling for the reform of our Mental Health Act, so as to raise the threshold for detention for those suffering from mental illness and refusing treatment.
This will mean mental health professionals will have to wait until a patient is severely ill before they can intervene, and must release the patient from detention as soon as they are showing signs of recovery.
It is time that the views of mental health professionals at the front line of care are listened to, above those well-meaning advocates who have little appreciation of the consequences for families when a loved one relapses and becomes paranoid about them and others.
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin needs to do far more about Israel’s decimation of Gaza than ask the EU to issue travel bans against violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank (‘Tánaiste to push for the introduction of EU-wide sanctions against Israel’, January 20).
Ask the people of this country what they want the Government to do about Israel’s war against the people of Gaza, and I am certain the great majority will agree with the imposition of hard-hitting measures.
Mr Martin’s proposed half-measure won’t do.
As David Norris departs from public political activities, I simply wish to say — on all fronts — Mr Norris, you are what we should all aspire to be: Fearless, courageous, with plenty of pluck and a thick shin, and refusing to put up with the nay-sayers and people who — for some reason — seem reluctant to stand for any real social change being achieved for the benefit of all.