The Duke of York’s very public trial regarding allegations connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein is not only a major embarrassment for his family, and supporters of the monarchy generally, but exposes a disturbing nexus between the very powerful and the sexual exploitation of underage girls and boys. Epstein apparently committed suicide in August before […]
In an open letter, more than 400 clergy members of the Church of England have criticised their bishops ‘for not standing up for the Church’s official teaching on abortion’ – that in ‘most cases’, abortion ‘is wrong’ because ‘the unborn child has the potential to “develop relationships, think, pray, choose and love”’; in view of […]
At 4.11pm on Thursday, 5 December 2019, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 passed its third reading vote in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia by a decisive vote of 25 to 11. Only one member changed her vote between the second and third readings: Labor MP Adele Farina. In her speech explaining her […]
The important thing to note here is that there has been no “cure” discovered for Downs Syndrome. It’s not that medicine has gotten better at preventing Downs Syndrome, it’s that doctors have gotten better at identifying those children before they are born, and eliminating them: “The number of babies born with Down’s syndrome has fallen […]
On 7th December, the National Graves Association unveiled a statue in Finglas commemorating Liam Mellows who was executed on December 8, 1922 by Free State forces. Mellows was born in Lancashire into a British army family. When his father was transferred to Dublin he spent some years with his mother’s family in Wexford. He joined […]
Last week, Independent left-wing MEP Clare Daly took part in a panel discussion on RTÉ’s European Parliament Report with Colm Ó Mongáin. She was asked about the China Cables – leaked documents which confirmed that the Chinese authorities are running a vast chain of concentration camps which are being used to imprison and brutalise over […]
Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has survived a vote of no-confidence, mostly because Fianna Fáil abstained from voting against the government they continue to prop up despite the crisis in health and housing. The vote took place on the same day that the Department of Housing released October figures showing that another new record has been set […]
A group representing people with disabilities has said that the International Day of People with Disabilities should be an occasion to remember those whose lives were ended by abortion because a condition was diagnosed in utero. “Today is International Day of People with Disability. Big shout out to everyone out there living with a disability,” they wrote. “On this day, […]
“These are the only black and tans we’ll be supporting”, shouted Mary-Lou amid rapturous cries of ‘Allahu Akbar’ from supporters, “and you can tell all the begrudgers to take a running jump off…”, at which point the microphone was cut and Smith awkwardly averted her gaze.
Is ‘porn literacy’ something we should be teaching in schools? If so, at what age? What is ‘porn literacy’? Is there such a thing as ‘ethical porn’? To what extent will these things be part of the planned new Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) course? For clues, we might look to Kate Dawson who is […]
The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has had several decades of bad press, and scandals, which have resulted in widespread public alienation and falling mass attendances. Those who have kept faith with it during these hard decades cannot be accused of swimming with the cultural, or political tides. The Church in Ireland is resolutely on […]
The shooting dead of Islamist terrorist Usman Khan, who murdered two people in the London Bridge attack on Friday, has raised a number of issues. The fact that Khan who was convicted in February 2012 of being part of a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange, was free to carry out the attack seems […]