As for all the years of campaigning by groups trying to prevent suicide, they may or may not realise that the uphill battle they have been fighting has suddenly become a cliff over which the likes of Kenny would gladly offer many the “choice” of jumping.
People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny, doesn’t seem to know the contents of his own Bill – the proposed legislation he will introduce to the Dáil this afternoon which seeks to make Assisted Suicide legal. In a debate on Newstalk 106 yesterday, the Dublin West TD stumbled repeatedly when challenged by commentator David Quinn about […]
Éamon Ó Cuiv here, with, you’d have to say, a compelling argument: Éamon Ó Cuív says Fianna Fáil needs a change of leader. So it begins. — Hugh O'Connell (@oconnellhugh) September 15, 2020 And DCU boffin Eoin O’Malley here, with a slightly more compelling argument: This is why Micheál Martin is safe… pic.twitter.com/GVSpuujTNM — Eoin […]
2FM have caved, naturally: 2FM is no longer holding a discussion on face masks this morning. There was backlash when Jennifer Zamparelli tweeted about the segment idea yesterday. In the show intro, she says “It’s been an emotional 24 hours”. — Hannah Murphy (@hanelizamurphy) September 15, 2020 The backstory to this is that 24 hours […]
Extraordinary: A poll released today has seen support for Fianna Fáil slump to just 10%. Fine Gael remains the most popular party in the country on 35%, this is up from 21% they received in this year’s General Election. Support for Sinn Féin has remained more or less static at 27%. However, the Red C […]
At nearly every protest in every western country, the attendees can be broadly divided into two groups of people. One group is the people who are there because they feel very strongly about the particular issue being protested. Some of them may never have protested before, and may never protest again. They may be there […]
I have a profoundly deaf child. My son is 11 years old and has bilateral cochlear implants, he received his first implant at age 4 and second at 5 and half. He was diagnosed late, even by the standards at the time, he was almost 2 and a half. Late diagnosis can have life long […]
A Private Members’ Bill seeking to permit assisted suicide will be debated in the Dáil soon. It is proposed by Solidarity-People Before Profit TD, Gino Kenny. The last time when this issue was discussed in Leinster House, three years ago, some of the strongest opposition came from the members of the medical profession and disability […]
The re-opening of schools has brought the illusion of normality to our country. After all, what’s better and more normal than seeing little ones and older children return to the business of books and school bags, lunches and learning, drop-offs and pick-ups. Families are the hinge of a healthy society, the pivot of a robust […]
Last week, Taoiseach Michael Martin said he expects Ireland to be living with coronavirus restrictions until late 2021 or early 2022. Deep breaths everyone, remember it’s all only temporary… but let’s backtrack a few months, shall we? Back in March, what seems to have been another life, we were put on lockdown for two weeks. Nobody […]
Now that Ursula Von der Leyen, President of the EU Commission, has picked the new Irish commissioner it seems that all is well once again in the aftermath of that embarrassing interlude widely known as golfgate. Von der Leyen got her woman and it seems that another step has been taken on the long road […]
At the very beginning of the Covid 19 panic, Anthony Fauci, the chief scientist in the American anti virus programme, speculated that Americans might never shake hands with one another again. It is not yet illegal to shake hands but it is certainly frowned upon. Which might be regarded as a victory by the person […]