The definition of mercy killing is very elastic, as two recent cases in England demonstrate. In the first, 53-year-old Robert Knight was given a two-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of his mother, 79-year-old June. June had Alzheimer’s disease and was being given end-of-life care in a nursing home. Robert found his mother’s suffering […]
We’ve only got twelve years left folks. The Amazon is on fire, the polar bears are all dead, and we are doomed, totally doomed, without even a good steak to get us through the apocalypse. I don’t know really why you’re headed to work today, or why all those Irish Times columnists and Greenpeace activists […]
Actor Brad Pitt has said that he “clings to religion” in an interview with GQ magazine. The star of the newly-released Ad Astra said that he had “gone through everything” in searching for connection. “Like, I cling to religion,” he said. “I grew up with Christianity. Always questioned it, but it worked at times,” he told GQ. […]
Last month it was reported that US President Trump had “with varying degrees of seriousness” spoken about the idea of the US buying Greenland [i] – an idea which did not fare well, but which briefly placed the island centre stage. There followed a very large increase in searches for flights to Greenland, and such […]
Journalist Christina Patterson reveals that at age 55, despite never having fulfilled her desire to have children, ‘she came to embrace just how rich and full her life could still be’ (‘How I learnt to love life without kids’, Telegraph, September 17, 2019). Her remarks come in World Childless Week, set up in 2017 with […]
Senator Ivana Bacik has recently argued in a piece she called “The Catholic Church hasn’t gone away, you know” that what she calls a “secularist” approach to separation of Church and State would help to remedy a situation in which the Catholic Church in Ireland “influence(s) public policy” through its religious teachings, runs a “shadow […]
The 2017-2018 report from Planned Parenthood Federation of America shows that it conducted 332,757 abortions for the year ended June 30, 2018, an increase from 321,384 during the previous year. The Report also shows that its private contributions grew to $630.8 million, compared with $532.7 million the previous year. But did you know that our […]
This is a fascinating tweet from the European Parliament’s Chief Brexit Negotiator: The @Europarl_EN will never accept the UK can have all the advantage of free trade, and not aligning with our ecological, health & social standards. We are not stupid! We will not kill our own companies, economy, single market. We will never accept […]
Immigration is one of those topics that most reasonable, middle of the road Irish people run away from talking about, for the simple reason that there seems to be no way of talking about it without annoying somebody from one of the two camps that seem to dominate the discussion. Camp one, of course, is […]
Tim Jackson says we must learn from past mistakes.
Last week, Gript reported the shocking news that the bodies of more than 2,000 preborn babies had been found in the residence of Ulrich Klopfer, a doctor who had performed abortions in South Bend, Indiana. Klopfer, who previously ran three abortion clinics, had been forced to close his centres when the Indiana Medical Licensing Boarded […]
WATCH reactions from people on the streets of Belfast to the abortion bill being imposed on Northern Ireland by Westminster. #gript