Insights from Sr Eilís Coe
The women who came after her achieved extraordinary things in every sphere of medicine, nursing and midwifery and surgery.
Rural TDs vote led split in Greens
Pro-Lifers can only dream of having the power and influence that is being assigned to them by the conspiracy theorists driving the national conversation around this.
You can say what you want about Nuns in Ireland. It does not even need to be true.
Transfer “would destroy innocent life.”
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Benito Mussolini’s formulation remains one of the most enduring definitions of modern totalitarianism. The hyperventilated discussion about the new national maternity hospital has revealed some surprising – and not so surprising – tendencies of most of the political leadership in Ireland. Notwithstanding the […]
Amidst all the tiresome controversy around the proposed ethos of the new national maternity hospital, which is now slated to cost, naturally, some €800m, one thing has been forgotten: The Sisters of Charity, in an act of timeless folly, volunteered for this public whipping. After all, they are choosing to donate the land on which […]
Yesterday in the Dáil the Taoiseach was questioned by a number of TD’s on his dialogue and meetings with the various churches, faith groups and non-confessional bodies. These meetings are part of what is termed the Church State Structured Dialogue Process, which was established in 2005 and forms part of what the Government calls […]
Graham Doyle was handed over to the Sisters of Charity as a baby, but the adoptee says one day modern Ireland will also have to face up to its own treatment of babies.
The reality of surgical abortions are gruesome and barbaric, that is without even entering the ethical debate: that it is wrong to take defenceless human life.