TUAM: We seem to be obsessed in modern Ireland with digging up the past, says MARIA MAYNES, but the State’s own Commission of Investigation into the Galway mother and baby home lays bare some important facts which have gone under the public radar:
IHREC is taxpayer-funded
The ongoing assault on the dead may well be a prelude to an assault on the living as well.
The futility of lectures.
Princely sums.
Slip of tongue or insight into intent?
Is large-scale immigration always financially beneficial for a society? Is it ever? Ben and Jason discuss the matter following Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe’s insistence that it is. https://youtu.be/An_-7jIctKA
“The big thing is shame, like, look at how stupid you look,” McLaren said. “That was the thought behind the camera.””
€200 million plus €148 million and more
Perverse incentives around the €600 per month accommodation payment.
Refusal to engage seriously with the fundamental point.
“I haven’t seen a rich woman carrying a baby for a poor woman”: Olivia Maurel was born from surrogacy, and now fights against the practice. She speaks to Gript about her story as a child of surrogacy, and what she says are the dangers of the surrogacy industry.