It's not 'morning sickness'. Before we had ways to replace fluids by IV, it was fatal, and it can still be very dangerous and fatal if untreated.

Yayyyy! I need more Nick books, dammit, and more Maree!!

Diana Wynne Jones's "Deep Secret", anyone? The centaurs and the Koryfonic Empire...?

These look a lot more comfortable than the forceps collection in the Wellcome Institute. I have never been able to look at salad tongs the same way again.

+ a million.

Great minds... I just commented about MM and FF.

Micheál Martin can fuck right off: his party was in power for most of the last twenty years; he was on the Cabinet; and I didn't see him anxious to get his finger out of his hole and legislate then. He has no credibility on this.

People go to Britain or the Netherlands; they order drugs online and hope they don't get seized by customs; or they continue the pregnancy.

Thank you! I'm an Irish woman living abroad and I was desperate to be in Dublin yesterday. It's great to know that there is that support.

Actually, access to abortion at least along the terms of the X case is in the Irish Labour party's manifesto: Labour are one of the parties in government in the Republic.

Short answer: we don't know. If you read the story by Kitty Holland in the Observer today - she was the journalist who originally broke the story - it's clear that Savita's death becoming public was the exception rather than the rule.…

A translation of Linear A, please.

Yep, I was just coming here to say the same thing. They are testing descendants of his sister, Anne of York, and only mtDNA.

Downside: as far as I know this woman had to stay still and lying on her back during the birth - not exactly comfortable or suitable for everyone.

This is very simple: would they be 'degrading the uniform' if they were feeding their children using bottles? Would military dads be 'degrading the uniform' if they were doing the same? No? Then they're not doing it now.

Ah, he's a composite I think, but in one episode they end up watching a video from his 'holiday in California', and it's him, a woman who looks like Annie Murphy, and a little boy...

Down with that sort of thing!:)

I'm pretty sure I had it a few years ago, too: chest infection, two courses of antibiotics, followed by coughing for months, to the point of vomiting. I was diagnosed with asthma but inhalers didn't make any difference and when the cough when away (eventually) I've never had any signs of asthma since. Whatever I had,…

There is a difference between a viral illness and a vaccine. Most vaccines are not live any more, and even when they are, they are not the same as the actual in-the-wild virus. So it's not correct to compare a cold at a young age to a vaccine as a newborn.

See also: Father Michael Cleary, who fathered two children with his housekeeper Phyllis Hamilton in the 1960's (their sexual relationship began when she was 17); Bishop Eamonn Casey, who fathered a son with an American woman, Annie Murphy, in the 1970's (satirised in "Father Ted" as Bishop Brennan), etc. etc.