At the moment, Irish voters are being told that the changes proposed to their foundational legal document are small and symbolic. That simply is not the case.
If a funeral mass is just a do-it-yourself liturgy that can be embellished with singing and dancing and celebrity spotting, then what significance does it have, by itself, at all?
“Everything just blew up into the air”
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“I told them that my commitment was to Europe.”
“extremely explicit” child abuse
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‘Politics interfering with medicine’
Judges, of course, have a very defined and limited role: Their job is not to make the laws, but to apply the laws as written by the legislature.
By any measure, this is an extraordinary increase in the demand on the asylum system in a very short timeframe.
An ‘incredibly special’ fashion show