There is no law saying to anybody that you must vote on a candidate on his or her merits instead of voting on them because your party has taken a position.
Run referendum on mothers in home again?
Before you tear down a fence, you would do well to know why the fence is there, in the first place.
“That’s the only one, I’d imagine.”
We have a bizarre situation where the next Government will be bound – at least to some degree – by major spending decisions taken in the dying days of this one.
Senator Michael McDowell – Ireland’s ex-Attorney General – has accused the government and NGOs of propagating the “old, lazy-minded lie” that the Irish constitution says a woman’s place is in the home, saying that this is “wholly untrue” and “disinformation.”
Each time you tinker with the document, you risk unforeseen legal side effects
In a country where we have a female Minister for Justice, female members of the Supreme Court, numerous female members of the judiciary, Oireachtas and civil service, it is clear that this provision has not been utilised to prevent the advancement of women in any of these fields of political power or significance.
Media Minister Catherine Martin is asked if she will delete a tweet in which she falsely claimed that the Constitution says “a woman’s place is in the home” – a claim which was explicitly contradicted by her government’s own Electoral Commission. Question by Ben Scallan.
The Chief Justice separately offered two quotes that may be advantageous to one side or the other.
O’Gorman’s opinion as to what “represents as durable” is just that: His personal opinion.
We reject DeValera’s Ireland, and all it’s works, and all of its empty promises.