“The right to equal treatment, to bodily integrity and to privacy.”
In an RTÉ-commissioned poll on “hate speech” legislation a few years ago, only 19% of viewers said they were in favour of such laws. The poll ran on Claire Byrne Live and was conducted by Amárach Research in 2017, the year after the Brexit referendum and the election of then-US President Donald Trump. 2017 was […]
“Remember the “living with polio” campaign?” said Irish journalist Philip O’Connor the other day. Nope, me neither.
You know that scene in the first Jurassic Park movie, where Jeff Goldblum’s character says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should”? That’s a great summation of where Irish politicians are at; just throwing policy after policy at the wall to see […]
Switzerland will soon hold a referendum on whether to add an amendment to the Constitution explicitly banning forced vaccination, after a civil rights group gathered enough signatures to trigger a vote. The Swiss Freedom Movement (MLS) managed to gather 125,000 signatures calling for such a referendum. The required amount is 100,000. While Switzerland does not […]
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the complaints of several Irish political and media figureheads, after they objected to the presidential oath’s reference to “Almighty God.” As it stands, as bearla the oath reads: “In the presence of Almighty God, I, [name], do solemnly and sincerely promise and declare that I will maintain […]
Religious freedom and political freedom are woven from the same cloth. Reflecting on Irelands experience under the cosh of the Covid-19 pandemic there are very real reasons for concern. The scientific evidence justifying authoritarian edicts restricting freedom of movement and of religious practise– enforced by an unsettling show of armed force–have not been properly set […]
If one was to sit down and draw up a list of things related to the Coronavirus for which somebody in Ireland should be arrested and prosecuted, there are a few things you might put on it. For starters, there was the decision to allow flights from Northern Italy to keep landing in the country […]