Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison urged the Tánaiste to resign over a 2017 broken health-minister promise that no child should wait more than four months for scoliosis surgery and for failing to meet them while their son Harvey was alive; Harris has agreed to meet them. More than 1,000 people marched in Dublin to support the campaign, while Harvey's parents asked that blaming Harris for their son's death be avoided and framed their complaint as political, not personal. Rising online abuse has deterred presidential hopefuls such as Tony Holohan, and calls for kinder scrutiny echo amid polarised, black-and-white discourse.
Gillian Sherratt and Stephen Morrison called on the Tánaiste to step down over the broken promise he made as health minister in 2017 that no child should have to wait more than four months for scoliosis surgery, as well as for failing to meet them to hear their anguish while Harvey was alive. Harris has since agreed to meet them.
Last week, former chief medical officer Tony Holohan ended his interest in the presidential race, saying he wanted to protect his family from the "kind of personal abuse which is becoming increasingly normalised in Irish politics". There were surely other reasons behind his decision not to run, but the bearpit of social media in particular is proving ever more hostile to the vital act of agreeing to disagree.
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