 In 1960, the Fianna Fáil minister for health, Seán MacEntee, brought forward the "Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) Act" and a Dublin housewife Gladys Ryan challenged the Act as an “invasion of family rights”.Ryan lost the case, which lasted 65 days, at the High Court (Ireland), and appealed to the Supreme Court.Ryan was represented in court by Seán MacBride who argued that fluoridation was an infringement of human rights since people had no option but to drink it.