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On June 11th, 2004, sixteen and a half years ago, the Irish people went to the polls to vote on the 27th amendment to the constitution. The proposal in front of them was to strip from the constitution the automatic right to citizenship conferred on every child born on Irish soil. Instead, prior to the […]
Senator Ivana Bacik has recently argued in a piece she called “The Catholic Church hasn’t gone away, you know” that what she calls a “secularist” approach to separation of Church and State would help to remedy a situation in which the Catholic Church in Ireland “influence(s) public policy” through its religious teachings, runs a “shadow […]
Immigration is one of those topics that most reasonable, middle of the road Irish people run away from talking about, for the simple reason that there seems to be no way of talking about it without annoying somebody from one of the two camps that seem to dominate the discussion. Camp one, of course, is […]
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