It is often argued that parents want religion removed from schools. However, when they have been asked in the past, parents often oppose removing religious patronage when it comes to their own child’s education, as MARIA MAYNES points out:
Such is the scale of the atrocities being committed in Sudan that pools of blood and clusters of human bodies are visible from space in gruesome satellite images. One recent attack saw hundreds killed at a maternity hospital. Why does the world seem silent? asks MARIA MAYNES:
TUAM: We seem to be obsessed in modern Ireland with digging up the past, says MARIA MAYNES, but the State’s own Commission of Investigation into the Galway mother and baby home lays bare some important facts which have gone under the public radar:
Jason and Maria disagree about Ryanair’s crackdown on the “scourge” of oversized luggage in the wake of the news that the airline’s staff are receiving bonuses for catching out passengers with overly-hefty bags.
Are Irish teenagers in crisis? It appears as though they are, according to a major new survey which claims that almost half of teenagers reported feeling low on at least a weekly basis. MARIA MAYNES has more:
But the evidence for those claims doesn’t stand up:
If you don’t agree with the Catholic Church, there are plenty of other churches one can join, says MARIA MAYNES who thinks that the Mary McAleese and some in the Irish media are using the death of Pope Francis to promote their own agenda.
“Please explain why there are ten murders unsolved in our community”: Prominent west Belfast priest Fr Paddy McCafferty reflects on the impact of a spate of unsolved drugs-related murders devastating his community.