Powerful lobby groups
Damaged social cohesion
Garda Detective Superintendent Ian Lackey discusses Irish authorities’ experience of female genital mutilation (FGM) – the practice of injuring a woman or girl’s genitals for “non-medical reasons” with “no health benefit.” He says it is “deeply engrained” in many cultures. #gript
From a young woman
Leave Christmas alone
Leave Christmas alone
The author, Carol Nolan, is the Independent TD for the constituency of Laois-Offaly Over the course of my political career, I have often found myself wondering if anyone in government has ever actually met a real child. On the face of it, this appears to be an almost ridiculous thing to say. But the latest […]
In a debate in the House of Commons, Edmund Burke is documented as saying: “there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.” The Fourth Estate – the press – were meant to be a light to expose the truth, to […]