Bandon Grammar School has installed a water filtration system to become one of the first schools in the country to have access to fluoride free water.

The constitutional status of water fluoridation in Ireland had been called into question and challenged in a letter written to key Government and health officals by Owen Boyden, Director of the The National Fluoride Free Towns Project.

Galway Councillors have passed a motion of opposition to compulsory water fluoridation in Ireland.

Leitrim County Council has become the latest council to pass a motion calling on the Government to immediately cease public water fluoridation in Ireland.

Wexford County Council is the latest to join ranks of councils calling for an end to water flouridation, joining Cork County, Cork City, Kerry, Laois and Dublin City which have all supported motions calling for an end th fouridation.

By Owen Boyden
Dublin City Council's  last night (6 October), debated and passed a motion calling for the immediate cessation of water fluoridation in Ireland. DCC, the largest Council in the country (per capita over 500,000 people), has now adopted an anti-fluoride position and will be calling on the Government to end Ireland's mandatory water fluoridation policy with immediate effect.