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We have to move beyond the insulting caricatures that exist on ‘both sides’ of the debate
The broadcasting regulator has found that two programmes broadcast by Newstalk FM breached the Broadcasting Code in relation to impartiality because the presenters expressed their own views and advocated a partisan position on abortion. The Newstalk Breakfast show breached the broadcasting code, when presenter Ciara Kelly expressed strong support for abortion provision, the regulator found. “I would […]
An interim report on deaths amongst homeless people has found almost one in ten deaths occur on the streets or outdoors, and that the median age of all those who died was 43 years – though it was just 33 for women. The research said that while mortality for single people experiencing homelessness was high, rates of […]
Research conducted for the St Stephen’s Green Trust (SSGT) has found that over 80% of Travellers are unemployed. This means that 8,500 of the 10,650 Travellers in the labour force are out of work or unable to find employment. The data is contained in the Travellers in the Main stream Labour Market: Situation, Experience, and […]
There is nothing that infuriates social constructivists more than a member of a minority stepping out of their allotted lane to point out fallacies in the progressive narrative. So when Mercy Muroki co-authored a report for the UK government – one based on nationally collected statistics – which arrived at a conclusion that poorer white […]
Leading medical experts have been joined by many of the country’s top professional medical bodies in opposing a bill which seeks to legalise Assisted Suicide in Ireland. They warned that the bill was “deeply flawed” and left people at “significant risk”. Submissions from medical professionals made to the Justice Committee on a bill proposed by […]
In a comment piece for the Irish Times, the former Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone has suggested that the publication of the Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation should be used “as an opportunity to listen, confront and accept the uncomfortable realities from the not-so-distant past.” Ms Zappone also reminded readers […]
Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about Nazi medicine. In 1966 Henry K. Beecher published “Ethics and Clinical Research”, […]
The long-awaited Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was released this week. The report is 2,685 pages long, so many who seemed to have pre-written pieces ready go the day of the report might not have had time to absorb or digest its contents. Much of the commentary around the […]
On Wednesday of this week the Dáil will debate the final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. The Report has now been published in full but not before some of the findings were leaked over the weekend . A move which has angered the Minister for Children, Roderick O’Gorman. The […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has said that survivors of Mother and Baby Homes have not had all their questions answered today, while lambasting the “insensitive” approach the government has taken. Deputy Tóibín said: “The report on Mother and Baby Homes has been published today, and it does make for distressing reading. Survivors have been […]
Mounting evidence shows that pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions have inflicted much more harm on younger people than the coronavirus itself. A new report reveals that nearly half of 18 to 24 year-olds are “showing at least moderate depressive symptoms,” and for many the depression is severe. Researchers at Harvard, Northeastern, Rutgers, and Northwestern universities conducted eight large survey […]
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