In the decades after the 1916 Rising, Margaret Mary Pearse, sister of Pádraig and Willie, was a teacher at St. Enda’s until it closed in the mid 1930s. She became a senator later in the 1930s and served there until her death in 1968. The photo shows Margaret and students from St. Enda’s, c […]
ON THIS DAY: 6 NOVEMBER 1649: Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill, Gaelic chieftain, military commander and victor of the Battle of Benburb (1646), died in Cavan He was one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster. O’Neill left Ireland at a young age and spent most of his life as a soldier and […]
ON THIS DAY: 6TH NOVEMBER 1913: Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners’ march in South Africa Within three years of his arrival in South Africa, Gandhi had become a political leader, providing hope to many Indians who had no political rights under the dispensation of the time. Some years later, an act was introduced […]
Tutankhamun (c. 1342 – c. 1325 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father was the heretical king Akhenaten, believed to be the mummy found in the tomb KV55. His mother […]
Jurisdictions which permit assisted suicide or euthanasia suck all the oxygen out of media coverage of this topic. To put the issue in perspective, assisted suicide or euthanasia is only legal in Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and a handful of American states. Nearly everywhere else, doctors have repudiated it. As a reminder of this, the […]
Belgian paralympian Marieke Vervoort died after euthanasia at the age of 40. Vervoort won gold and silver at the London 2012 Paralympics and another two medals at Rio 2016, had an incurable degenerative muscle disease. Vervoort had been preparing for euthanasia for a long time. In 2008 she completed all the paperwork. Despite her strength […]
Kevin Gerard Barry was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising. He was a 18-year-old medical student who had won a merit-based scholarship given annually by Dublin Corporation, which allowed him to become a student of medicine at UCD. Born on Fleet Street, Dublin, the […]
No one quite knows what is going on in North Korea (although Michael Palin does have a book out which may be illuminating…but probably won’t be). Thus, when it comes to its population and predicted trends, it is hard to be sure just what the real story in in the Hermit Kingdom. But, from what can […]
A criminologist says that almost anyone who lets his curiosity get the better of him could become an abuser Child pornography seems to be exploding, abetted by the internet. Jeremy Prichard: A small point on terminology. Many jurisdictions have moved away from use the term “child pornography” because of the potential for normalizing the content by […]
Due to the massive imbalance in their demographics, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announced the decision to relax the one-child policy. Under the new policy, families could have two children if one parent, rather than both parents, was an only child. Apart from the violence endured by many Chinese women who were […]
It may take many generations to realise the damage that ‘Medical Aid in Dying” will do Professor Margaret Somerville taught medical law and ethics for nearly 40 years at McGill University in Canada. Few people are better qualified to comment on Canada’s embrace of euthanasia. ******** After having spent most of your professional life in […]
A leading professor describes experimental sex-corrective treatment as one of the biggest scandals in medical history Extreme medical treatment for children with gender dysphoria is not just a problem in the English-speaking world. In Sweden, too, there has been an explosion of gender dysphoria. In 2003 only about ten children were diagnosed; in 2018, there […]