The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) plans to incorporate the new Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) within the framework of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE). It has also indicated that there will be ‘a whole school approach’ to the subject which suggests the curricular content will not be confined to timetabled classes. […]
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Disability rights activist and Silent Witness star, Liz Carr, has spoken out of her opposition to legalising assisted suicide in the UK, after The Sunday Times expressed their support for making assisted suicide legal. In the UK, assisted suicide is currently illegal, where a doctor who assists a patient in their suicide could face up […]
The EU worked to ensure that China was not openly criticised at the recent G7 summit for using slave labour in Xinjiang. “EU leaders blocked efforts to name and shame Beijing for using slave labour,” the Times reports. It says that Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, along with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Ursula von […]
From the government to Sinn Féin and the hard-left: all the parties who cheered on the lockdown are equally to blame for the mounting job losses and rapidly-approaching economic devastation caused by their unquestioning approach to the Covid crisis, where the only challenge put by most of the Opposition was usually for even more stringent, […]
As we all know, the impact of Covid-19 on the delivery of health services in the State has been catastrophic. We also know that waiting lists across nearly all medical specialties have increased significantly and that it will be years before we can finally determine the real magnitude of the crisis that has been […]
Minister Roderic O’Gorman met with the Garda Commissioner this week to discuss the death of George Nkencho, and heavily implied, without evidence, that his death was a result of racism. Following the meeting, O’Gorman, who is the Green Party Minister for Children and Equality, said: “I was very pleased to meet with Commissioner Harris today. […]
What was the justification for exterminating a family of wild boar that was discovered in county Kerry? Well, the answer, as usual, is based on agriculture: The notion that if this “invasive species” was allowed to take hold in Ireland, it might pass diseases on to our poor domestic pigs, and, in the final analysis, […]
Straightforward question, really, and one worth talking about a little bit. Fans of football will have tuned in, last night, to the European Championship clash between Denmark and Belgium in Copenhagen, and seen the host nation lose 2-1. They will also have seen a live, in person, outdoor attendance of some 40,000 football fans. Why, […]
Can animals be victims of hate speech? Yes, according to a recent article in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. Two academics from Sheffield University, in England, invoke heavy-hitting hate-speech theorists to argue that arguments which apply to humans must also apply to animals. “There is no in-principle reason to support the censure of racist hate […]
It’s been well established now that both the Minister for Children and Equality, Roderic O’Gorman, and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien, have expressed their desire to have the State Housing Agency provide own-door accommodation to asylum seekers after only 4 months of being here. As O’Brien himself said: “We are well advanced on a new phase […]
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