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Should sunbeds be banned?

The Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Jennifer Murnane O’C...

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16.38 26 Mar 2026


Should sunbeds be banned?


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16.38 26 Mar 2026


The Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor TD, has today published two reports on commercial sunbed use in Ireland with a view to ban commercial sunbed use as part of Ireland’s cancer prevention framework.

Joining Ciara to discuss this is Prof Aoife Lally, Consultant Dermatologist in St Vincents University hospital and clinic Professor in UCD and Gillian Costell, who is living with terminal cancer due to sunbed use.


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