Minister for Children says she spends too much time talking about the death of children – but she pushed to legalise abortion. 10,000 children expected to die through abortion this year according to the Rotunda.
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Leo Varadkar acknowledges that the government is “running into real difficulties around restricting peaceful protest and restricting free speech” in regard to banning protests or outreaches at abortion centres.
Niamh Uí Bhriain of the Life Institute said that it was absolutely extraordinary that the Dáil was discussing how best to ban peaceful protests simply because abortion centres wished to maximise the number of babies being killed.
“The right to free speech and to peaceful protest are the cornerstones of democracy and it’s appalling to see so-called liberals like Louise O’Reilly of Sinn Féin seek to limit the right to people to reach out to women in crisis and offer them a better alternative than abortion,” she said. “The Taoiseach has now acknowledged that these are peaceful protests, so why are his government trying to censor its own citizens at the behest of the abortion industry?”
State should use state-of-the-art wireless technology to bring urgently-needed broadband to rural areas says Renua candidate for Enniscorthy Ger O’Donoghue.
He says service will be locally-owned and is a faster, cheaper method of bringing broadband where it is urgently needed in rural Ireland.
BURNING money. Simon Harris is spending €7 BILLION more on Health – but the number of people on trollies is GROWING. €10 Billion on Health in 2010 – €17 Billion now, but the crisis is getting worse. Is it time to #SackSimon?
Deirdre Duffy of Fine Gael has been criticised on social media for saying said “a lot” of the 79% of Irish voters who voted Yes in the 2004 referendum on citizenship were motivated by “latent racism” and “fear”. What do you think? Is it wrong to label concerns regarding citizenship as “racist”?
John McGuirk says our taxes should not be used to pay for the ‘Isis Bride’, Lisa Smith to come home.
“This is something different”: Launch of Peadar Tóibín’s Aontú hears of people “desperately frustrated” with politics as it stands, said delegates at the presentation of more than 60 candidates for the local election in May.
Spiraling insurance costs are causing play centres to close – and big insurance companies need to be taken to account, says local election candidate Helena Byrne.
BARRED because she had Down Syndrome. Campaigners protested a decision by New Zealand to refuse Bumikka Suhinthan, an Irish resident, entrance to New Zealand because she has Down Syndrome.
Michael O’Dowd, a candidate in the European elections, and a disability campaigner handed in a letter explaining the decision was in breach of international human rights conventions.
SECULAR BLASPHEMY? Cllr Keith Redmond says the proposal from Irish government that Facebook could request PPS numbers to register users is worrying.