At some point in the 20th century history of Ireland, it was decided that the single worst thing you could be was an unmarried mother. It was so bad, in fact, that the words themselves were rarely spoken. Daughters – some of them still of childbearing age today – were warned not to “get into […]
Peter Nygard, described in the press as a ‘fashion mogul’ has been arrested and charged with trafficking dozens of women and teenage girls – with offences apparently regularly taking place in his private island in the Bahamas. Nygard, 79, owns a Canadian fashion house and it is claimed he lured his alleged victims to his Bahamas estate over […]
Just as the Government rolled over for the far left on the Euthanasia Bill, it seems that they will do the same on Labour’s Private Members Bill which seeks to overturn the decision of the 2004 referendum on citizenship. Yesterday in the Seanad, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee told Senator Ivana Bacik that she supported […]
A Report from Hotline.ie, which is Ireland’s national centre for monitoring activities related to online child sexual abuse and exploitation, is set to reveal that the rate of reported child sexual abuse material is at its highest level here since 1999, with a year-on-year increase of 79% on 2018 figures. According to the Law Society Gazette, […]
Poor Pope Francis has had something of a torrid week of it. It began with the announcement that the Pontiff has been struck down by a mystery illness and was confined to bed. It approaches its end with an unwelcome letter in the post from Ireland’s most high profile Catholic. Of course, it seems fairly […]
James Prior, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that a full public inquiry would take place into the matters surrounding the Kincora Scandal. The Kincora Boys’ Home was a boys’ home in Belfast, that was the scene of serious organised child sexual abuse, causing a scandal and attempted cover-up in 1980, with credible allegations […]
The Gambia, Africa, is a little known country on the west coast of Africa that one journalist has exposed as being rife with western paedophile tourists targeting local children for sexual abuse.
A wheelchair-bound four-year-old girl is said to be traumatised after being screamed at by a man on her way to school and told she “shouldn’t have been born.”
Drugs are not dangerous because they are illegal; they are illegal because they are dangerous. A child who reaches age 21 without smoking, misusing alcohol, or using illegal drugs is virtually certain to never do so. Today, most children don’t use illicit drugs, but all of them, particularly the poorest, are vulnerable to misuse and […]