29/09/2025
What an Excellent Conference – Pathways to Progress Medico-Legal Conference
Solicitors | September 24, 2025
Pathways to Progress conference brought together a unique and essential blend of voices - Judges, Barristers, Plaintiffs, Defendants, Patients, AI and tech experts — all in one room, engaging in frank, respectful discussion.
At the centre of every conversation - The Patient.
The conference didn’t shy away from difficult realities but instead embraced them, allowing multiple perspectives to converge around a shared goal: Improving healthcare outcomes in Ireland.
Hon. Justice Emily Egan during her speech offered a memorable a**logy — describing case defence as a parachute descent, where the objective is to land precisely on the “X” marked on the ground. It’s about guiding the descent, navigating variables, and arriving with control and clarity.
From a women’s health perspective, that metaphor resonates deeply.
For many, the parachute is the woman herself, and the goal — the “X” — is a safe delivery and a healthy baby.
However, the path down is rarely straight. Complications, missed diagnoses, delayed interventions, and systemic gaps can throw the descent off course.
And not every woman lands safely on that “X”.
It’s these discussions, these cross-disciplinary conversations, that will shape safer, fairer, and more effective healthcare systems for women, and for all patients.
A huge credit to Callan Tansey Solicitors LLP Tansey Solicitors LLP and all the incredible panelists and speakers, who shared their voices at the event.
"My panel exuded nothing less than the power of passionate women — women whose drive goes far beyond ambition and straight into a deep sense of purpose and pure advocacy for others.
It’s purpose-led, heart-driven work — and being surrounded by such incredible women was truly enriching and uplifting.
Scarlett Griffin O'Sullivan
Kathleen M King
Dr. Mary McCaffrey,
Catherine Johnson, and the incomparable Ingrid Miley BL — thank you for holding space where truth was honoured, voices were heard, and real progress felt not just possible, but tangible.
When we come together in true collaboration — boldly sharing knowledge, lived realities, and diverse perspectives without judgment or bias — we unlock the power to shape transformative, lasting change. This is how progress is not only imagined, but made inevitable."
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