January 25, 2006
An Irish government committee has recommended that circumcisions carried out by mohels should be permitted to continue. All other cultural and religious circumcisions should be performed by trained surgeons under the direction of the health authorities, the commission ruled. The recommendations appear in a report to the Irish minister for health, who established the committee to address ethical and medical concerns raised by circumcision practices in Ireland after a one-month-old Nigerian boy died following a home circumcision in 2003. Outside the relatively small Jewish and Muslim communities, circumcision is very rare in Ireland.
