That this little boy has been left in this condition is one of the many reasons why any politician who talks about compassion in the context of this state should be met with scorn and derision.
Compassion
In your life, have you ever spent a day wondering why the Kerryman newspaper is called the Kerryman, and not the Kerry people? Chances are, you have not. Josepha Madigan, on the other hand, feels so strongly about it that she went on national radio yesterday to urge that the name be changed, so that […]
The recent debate around assisted suicide has shown that many in public life, rather than choosing compassion, solidarity and care decide to choose the extreme and egotistic approach. As a society we have a responsibility to care for the sick, old and the young. They deserve to be treated with dignity, hence instead of pushing […]
A consequence of the way society has changed over the course of most of our lifetimes is that fewer and fewer of us live close to our parents. The increase in university education, and careers that take us away to Dublin, or London, or further afield has meant, amongst other things, a collapse in the […]
The trial of a medical doctor in the Netherlands this week over the euthanasia of a 74 year old woman in 2016 is notable for many reasons, but perhaps most of all by the commitment by the prosecution that even if the doctor responsible is found guilty, she will face no prison time. The facts […]