Mary Harney: Meet Eve

Four Years Old

Yesterday Mary Harney announced the decision to halt the provision of the HPV vaccination to girls aged 12 years, a reversal of a decision made last August. This vaccine has the potential to prevent cervical cancer. I believe this is a mistake and this morning a listener on the Ray D’Arcy show suggested a way to let Mary Harney know what we thought: what if we all sent emails to the Minister with photos of their daughters expressing our dismay over this decision to deny these girls a vaccine which may prevent them getting cervical cancer in later years?

The Ray D’Arcy show has a link where you can send an email directly and it will only take a second. You can do it here: Today FM. Or if you’d like to send a photo of your daughter, the address is minister’s_office@health.irlgov.ie

Other blogs talking about this today:

Redmum
Alexia
Damian
The Cedar Lounge

Eve Works That Cap

12 Responses to "Mary Harney: Meet Eve"

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  1. Erik

    November 6, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    WOW. It has been so long without a peep. Marci and I were actually wondering about you last night. Eve is soooo beautiful and quite the poser!

  2. gingerpixel

    November 6, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    I know! I’ve been very bad. Things are finally returning to a normal level of chaos so I just need to get back in the habit of blogging.

  3. Grannymar

    November 6, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    See is just beautiful!

  4. redmum

    November 7, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Thanks for this Claire, and the pics are great. She is getting so grown up!

  5. steph

    November 8, 2008 at 12:00 am

    Hi! there,

    I’ve linked to your site to help drive home the message to Harney.

    Thanks for letting us meet Eve, she’s adorable!

  6. neil

    November 9, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Lovely Photos, hope they do their part to force Harney to re-reverse the decision.

    Nice hat, is Eve getting involved in Scouts?

  7. gingerpixel

    November 10, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Hi Neil, the hat she’s wearing is her Daddy’s old cub scout hat from when he was only a little bit older than her.

  8. neil

    November 10, 2008 at 7:17 pm

    Yeah, thought it looked vintage.

    Hope she does get into it. I’ve been involved in Scouting for 14 years now, and as cheesy as it sounds, it’s made me the person I am now.

  9. Omaniblog

    November 11, 2008 at 12:11 am

    Welcome back. Great to see you again. I’ll join in too, tomorrow. Well said. Well shot.

  10. Omaniblog

    November 11, 2008 at 12:20 am

    I sent an email to Claire S Wilson, an illustrator, thinking I was sending it to you. Do you often get mixed up with her?

  11. gingerpixel

    November 11, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Hi Omani, it’s great to have you back too. I’ve been mistaken for a Claire Wilson who owns a hat shop in England but not Claire S Wilson the illustrator. This never happened to me before I got married…I knew I should have kept my maiden name :D

  12. Frank Fullard

    November 16, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    This is a fantastic blog entry and I cannot think of a better way to make a point.

    You need never worry about the quantity of what goes into you blog, its quality always makes it great to visit.