Thomas Clarke was born in Hampshire in the UK to Irish parents. They moved back to Dungannon when Thomas was 7 years old and the family spent the rest of his youth there. When he was 20, he joined the IRB and quickly rose to prominence, becoming head of the local IRB circle. He was […]
Every general practitioner has lonely elderly patients whose check-ups double as social events. They have few other occasions for interacting with people. Why not enlist the healthcare system in identifying people who are at highest risk for social isolation or loneliness? According to a major report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, […]
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Spain has appointed its first ever demography minister, a move which follows the appointment of the first Commissioner for Demography by the European Union. A large part of their respective roles will be to attempt to manage widespread depopulation. The European Union’s free movement policy has resulted in some member states struggling to fill their […]
On the 5th February 1981, republican prisoners in Long Kesh issued a statement to the British government that unless the prisoners were awarded special category status, there could be further hunger strikes. There had been several smaller strikes in the Maze and Armagh Women’s Prison previously following the tradition of Thomas Ashe, Terence MacSwiney, Frank […]
The European Parliament called for the legalisation of abortion in Ireland. The opinion, passed in Strasbourg by 321 votes to 122; it carried no legislative weight but provoked a storm of political controversy. It was not the first and wouldn’t be the last time institutions within the European Union would admonish Ireland for it’s pro-life […]
No voluntary organisation in the world does more work in the fields of education, healthcare, poverty relief, etc. than the Catholic Church, led in many cases by the Church’s religious orders. Amidst all the criticism of the Church, this basic fact is often forgotten. Cara, a research body at Georgetown University in the US, compiles the […]
What are the relationships between the judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and leading non-governmental organisations, and what should the Court be doing about them, particularly in cases in which doubts as to the judges’ impartiality might arise? This is the topic of this post, which is worthy of interest and needs […]
An Open Letter to Dr.Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at Irish Department of Health and Paul Reid, Director General of Irish Health Executive Service (HSE): Exploring the Adequacy of Irelands Sars-CoV-2 Response and Outlining the Dangers of Our “Contact Tracing dependent” containment strategy Dear Dr. Holohan and Mr. Reid, I am writing this letter on […]
Rob Bilott has just become a partner in Taft Stettinius & Hollister, a large law firm representing big corporations, when Wilbur Tennant asks for his help. Tennant is a farmer from Rob’s home town in West Virginia and he wants to sue DuPont, the giant chemical corporation. Tennant says that toxic waste discharged into a […]
The ugly spectre of China’s grim illegal organ trade reared its head again this week with the publication of the final judgment of the London Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting in China. This coincided with front page headlines in most national world newspapers on Tuesday trumpeting China’s first double lung transplant on a coronavirus victim. The patient, […]
What next for the Soldiers of Destiny? It is a thought that will be dwelling in the minds of Fianna Fáil members and supporters across Ireland. Let me be frank, the election result left us in shock. There was a quiet expectation that the party was back, and that as night follows day, so Micheál […]