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Local Fianna Fáil Deputy, Robert Troy, has welcomed confirmation from his party colleague and Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, that public in-patient charges for children under 16 years have been abolished in all public hospitals.

It is customary on St Patrick’s Day for the US president to speak glowingly of Ireland, invoking the name of the national saint and smiling when handed a bowl of shamrock. However, when President Obama this year made his remarks on St Patrick’s Day, he gave his audience a brief history lesson linking two remarkable men, one Irish and the other African American. The Irishman was Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847), the African American, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895).