Gary Kavanagh sat down with Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and Social Policy at UCD, to discuss the professor’s latest book, Public Morality and the Culture Wars; immigration; LGBT rights; abortion; and coercive public morality.
Can you count how many things People Before Profit wants to nationalise? #gript
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says his government has “no official position” on how many genders there are, even though genders “other than male or female” are protected categories under his government’s hate speech bill. #gript
Will rewetting farm land lead to food shortages?
Independent TD carol Nolan has called on Green Senator Pauline O’Reilly to resign after her comment on the hate-speech bill saying that freedom was being restricted for the common good
Laoise Aodha de Brún says women’s rights group The Countess are backing a bill to ban biological males in women’s prisons, saying vulnerable women are being threatened and subject to sexualised abuse. #gript
Thousands of women don’t return for an abortion after the 3-day wait. So, with 8,500 abortions in 2022, why would the government scrap it and risk driving the abortion rate up further, asks Fatima Gunning.
Aontú Bill to prevent male rapists in female prisons
Leo Varadkar on Senator’s “restricting freedom” comments
Last week, The Journal issued a highly dubious “fact check” on a Gript story. Our Editor responds and outlines the facts
McEntee: “The vast majority of people do want” hate speech laws
When it comes to Ireland’s immigration debate, politicians have a new favourite talking point: “international obligations.”