GALWAY THALIDOMIDE SURVIVOR WELCOMES AUSTRALIAN SETTLEMENT
Date Published: 20-Jul-2012
A Galway woman says the historic victory of an Australian thalidomide survivor has boosted the Irish thalidomide campaign for justice.
Lynette Rowe, who was born without arms and legs after her mother took the anti-morning sickness drug thalidomide, made a multi-million dollar compensation settlement with the distributor of the drug in Australia this week.
Thalidomide was given to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s as a treatment for morning sickness and led to deformities in thousands of babies around the world.
Maggie Woods from Claregalway is chairperson of the Irish Thalidomide Association.
She says the Australian settlement makes her more determined to achieve justice for Irish survivors