A great loss
At the Farmers Protest in Dublin City Centre 14th January 2020
Our correspondent looks at last year’s scorecard and makes his predictions for the current year
The mother of Bobby Sands MP died this day in 2018. She was 95. She was born in the Markets area of south Belfast in 1922 and her father died when she was just 12 years old. The young Rosaleen Kelly was set to emigrate to New Zealand, with a job lined up at the […]
Thomas Ashe trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, Co. Dublin. He was a poet, piper and talented singer and having being reared in the Gaeltacht in Kerry, was an avid supporter of the Irish language. This brought him to the governing body of the Gaelic League, he was also […]
The philosophy of anti-natalism refuses to die. In the latest issue of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Finnish bioethicist Matti Häyry renews the argument for reproductive abstinence. The headline over the article gives the game away: “If You Must Give Them a Gift, Then Give Them the Gift of Nonexistence”. Häyry takes a fairly glum […]
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The basic error which explains Ehrlich’s systematic failures
It was with great sadness that I learned of the death of Pope Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict XVI was an outstanding human being, a man who truly personified and exemplified all the characteristics of a true devout Christian. Here was a man who devoted his life to Jesus and to Christ’s universal message […]
Pervasive societal influences pose a huge challenge, but with effective communication, parents can still reach their teens
An Ecuadorian man has changed his gender to gain custody of his children.