One in ten young people attempting to take their own lives is the kind of headline which makes you sit up straight and pay attention.
The people are ‘second-class citizens’
It is not a secret that there are those in Ireland who wish to remove from parents almost any role in providing sex and relationship guidance to their children.
The problem is simply that they do not care, because it neither affects them, nor challenges their position.
McVerry Trust
For the decline is not even, truly, mourned by our rulers. It is embraced with a vigor and a passion that has, as I have written before, an openly religious quality.
And this is the bigger problem with modern society: For all we talk about “diversity”, every single difference amongst us must be pathologised.
If you want to spend money and point to the spending of money, giving it to Universities is almost the ideal political wheeze.
The country now has innumerable NGOs and groups and programs deeply involved in the education system.
Historically ignorant
Athena Swan Charter
Ireland now has its own class of powerful, favoured nobles, who hold the ability to lobby our rulers while the rest of us are excluded.