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September 21 passed without special notice, as usual, this year. Perhaps, in future, that day might be remembered as Zdenek Hanzlik Day. Or, to make it easier on our clumsy tongues, we could call it Sid’s Day — that being the name by which the 60-year-old, originally from the Czech Republic, was always known in […]
New Zealand is an island nation of about 5 million people. It is a western liberal democracy with public infrastructure and an advanced market economy. Like Ireland, New Zealand sits just off the coast of another larger island (admittedly about 4,000km off the coast, but we live in a globalised world) with which it is […]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, was giving an update to her country yesterday about their progress in conquering Covid 19 and getting back to some state of normalcy. The country has, so far, reported 1,487 cases, and just 20 deaths, and is considering re-opening for business as usual, and even relaxing restrictions on international […]
At midnight tonight New Zealand’s strict lockdown of 33 days will be slightly eased. As you can imagine, I cannot wait. We will be able to get a few takeout coffees, the children will be able to see their grandparents again and, most importantly, some people can head back to work and some businesses can […]
I’m writing this on the evening of day six of our four week “lockdown” (as if we were in prison) in New Zealand. So far we have survived pretty well, something I put down to having jobs which have so far not been too disrupted by the shutting down of the entire country, and good […]
On Wednesday night, while 90 percent of the world was coming to grips with the impact of the coronavirus on their lives, a majority in the New Zealand Parliament voted into law one of the most extreme abortion regimes on the planet. That’s right. Just when emergency measures are being rolled out by the day to […]
The dispute between Israel Folau and Rugby Australia may have ended last week but it was only one of the more prominent cases involving religious discrimination with many other incidents in Australia and overseas receiving far less, if any, media coverage. The substantial harm experienced by victims of religious discrimination supports the need for effective legal protection and the […]
BARRED because she had Down Syndrome. Campaigners protested a decision by New Zealand to refuse Bumikka Suhinthan, an Irish resident, entrance to New Zealand because she has Down Syndrome.
Michael O’Dowd, a candidate in the European elections, and a disability campaigner handed in a letter explaining the decision was in breach of international human rights conventions.
COURAGE amidst such horror: A young man ran at the killer who was shooting innocent people in the Al Noor mosque in New Zealand.
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