One of the great things about being a modern, liberated woman is that your autonomy and your right to decide for yourself is respected. We’re all strong, feisty, opinionated and independent women now, smashing the patriarchy and taking no prisoners. The future is female, we’re told. Gone are the days when women were hidebound by convention and told […]
There are plenty of voters and citizens who might feel that they have few reasons to shed any tears over the downfall of Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone. The Senator, who imploded her own political career two days ago by making extraordinarily offensive and false remarks about her own party leader, has racked up a […]
It would appear that Peadar Tóibín’s reference to the manner in which Sinn Féin operates has opened up an entire can of worms. It is no secret now regarding the manner in which pro-life republicans were forced out of Sinn Féin. The reason for that was the belief that the party needed to be seen […]
In a tragic reminder that surrogacy is not only morally fraught, but dangerous, a San Diego wife and mother of two has died giving birth to a baby for another couple. Michelle Reaves was acting as a surrogate mother for the second time for the same family when she died on January 15. Apparently she was the […]
My 6 year-old son has autism and spiky blond hair which won’t stay flat. He loves dinosaurs, and he says he’d rather be cute than strong. He’s a divil, like most kids his age, for eating cake and bouncing on beds, and he has a strange fascination with peeling onions. He can’t see an onion […]
We hear much about threats to democracy from ‘fake news’ and tech manipulation, but the veneer of free and fair elections seems very thin when one scratches under the surface of how our elected elite have already stacked this particular deck in their favour.
We stand, then, to lose our home, the home of our children, the Irish generations as yet unborn. Already weakened by a history of occupation, genocide and forcible cultural reconstruction, we have lacked the clarity and courage to defend our sweet land, its ways, laws and culture.
It might be hard to remember, in the full flush of this morning’s feeding frenzy around her, that Senator Catherine Noone has been widely regarded, for the past few years, as one of the brightest stars in the Fine Gael heavens. On paper, she is the perfect candidate, and the perfect politician, for the new […]
The debate over abortion is not just about women’s reproductive rights. It is also about science. And none of these debates is more heated than foetal pain. Many contend that the upper time limit for abortion should be 20 weeks, as from then on, it can feel pain. Mother Jones – not a scientific journal, mind […]
House the People Fairly protest in Dublin at news that there are different lists for social housing. These parents and residents in Mulhuddart say that news has emerged that there are separate lists for social housing and that some people in area are being discriminated against with regards to the housing list #gript “House the […]
The government is not even pretending to care about women’s safety any more. When Simon Harris had an abortion referendum to sell, voters were told repeatedly that the safety of women in pregnancy was a top priority. We were reminded that after the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar from sepsis, Leo Varadkar had set up the National Maternity […]
The Green Party have released their election manifesto this week, you can read a copy of it HERE. It’s a brave document, in parts good, in parts a reminder of why the Green Party have the reputation they do. As you read it you find yourself repeatedly agreeing with the normal parts of the manifesto […]