The tactics being rolled out by most politicians and commentators in favour of banning anti-abortion protests are clear: demonise your opponent.
Last night, some students in Limerick unaccountably refused to take the opportunity to sit at home and watch me on Prime Time. Instead, they decided to do a pretty normal thing for students, and have a party, outdoors, in the fresh air, in Castletroy. Simon Harris is not happy: My understanding is a full investigation […]
As you may have heard, the new Secretary General of the Department of Health is to receive an annual salary of €292,000. This represents an increase of 40% from the previous salary for the position, which was a mere €211,000. The Government’s position is that the sum is necessary. If you pay peanuts, you get […]
The alternative of excluding unvaccinated citizens from day-to-day activities based on a small chance that the 95%-effective vaccine doesn’t work is about as divisive and intolerant as any policy could be.
This week, we learned that doctors in Ireland describe the late-term abortions being carried out in Irish maternity hospitals as “stabbing a baby in the heart”. The study observing some of what is happening in regard to these abortions is every bit as shocking, disturbing and as heart-breaking as you’d imagine. But there was worse […]
Coronavirus running wild, economy sputtering to a halt, no-deal Brexit coming down the tracks, and, at last count, six thousand and seventy-seven homeless people in the country. And the Government’s hot new idea? Counting the skin colour of lecturers in Irish Universities to make sure they’re “diverse” enough: IT WILL BE compulsory for third-level institutions […]
It is remarkable what politicians and political campaigners can get away with, when journalists fail to call them to account – and nowhere is this more evident than around the issue of abortion. In the abortion referendum in 2018, pro-choice campaigners were allowed to create the impression that legalising abortion was a women’s health issue, […]
The Independent TD for Laois Offaly and strong pro-life advocate, Carol Nolan, recently exposed the fact that the HSE had provided an incredible €2.9 million in payments to GP’s and Clinics who provided abortions in a community setting in 2019. Deputy Nolan has now obtained further information, following another series of Parliamentary Questions to the […]
So the Greens now have their hands on the reins of government, surely bringing some badly-needed compassion to considerations regarding all helpless creatures in peril such as red squirrels and maybe even unborn babies? Not so. The Programme for Government agreed by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens includes 17 references to animal welfare […]
New figures released from the British Department of Health show that abortion rate in England and Wales is at its highest since the 1967 Act was introduced. There were 207,384 abortions for women resident in England and Wales, and 98% of abortions were carried out under ground C, considered social abortions. Most of the abortions […]
Two years ago, like 723,000 other people, I voted No to removing the 8th amendment from our constitution. I believed that preborn babies have a right to life, that women deserve better than abortion, and that the result of the referendum was the most shameful day in Ireland’s history. I still do. And the last two years […]
The country’s private hospitals are empty, and the owners of those hospitals are being paid one hundred and fifteen million euros a month, by you, the taxpayer, to keep them that way. Meanwhile, 2.2million Irish people are paying private health insurance so that they can avail of these private hospitals if, and when, they fall […]