Eilish Cleary was sacked as chief medical officer of New Brunswick, allegedly over her concerns about shale gas explorationThe death has occurred of Eilish Cleary, an Irish doctor who served as chief medical officer of the Canadian state of New Brunswick.
Ireland needed to guard against the “boomtown effect” of a go-ahead for large-scale fracking, including the risk of increased crime, drug and alcohol abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and domestic violence, she told The Irish Times in an interview at the time. Opposition politicians claimed she was fired by the Liberal provincial government in New Brunswick to clear the way for the lifting of a moratorium on shale gas exploration.
In 2014, she spent 10 weeks in West Africa, with a team from the World Health Organisation, fighting the spread of the Ebola virus.