How our tax system penalises families today


Is an average family more fairly taxed now than they were in 1974? Taxation and the Family: Restoring Balance and…

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By Dr Angelo Bottone

The Department of Education has published it new specifications for the Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE) for Senior Cycle. It will become mandatory from September 2027 and includes Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE).  Quite apart from what’s in the...

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Irish Government imposed the longest ban on public worship in Europe, while in Northern Ireland restrictions were less drastic. A new academic study says that religious institutions and media outlets largely supported these measures, with...

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A new poll highlights significant public concerns about the potential legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide in the UK. It also highlights contradictory attitudes. There is broad support for allowing the procedures but nervousness about how it may work out....

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Ireland has recently passed one of the most permissive surrogacy law in Europe. To appreciate how extreme this law is, it can be compared with what is in the report issued last year by the Law Commission of England and...

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A major new paper criticises so-called “comprehensive sexuality education”, raising concerns about its content, effectiveness, impact on parental rights, and psychological effects on young people. Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) focuses on the broader concept of ‘sexuality’ rather than just ‘sex’....

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More and more people do not want to have children, a major new American poll shows, and the chief reason is not the cost of living, but rather the wish to be free of the responsibilities of parenthood. Here in...

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Fergus Finlay calls for religious orders to be ‘bankrupted’


Fergus Finlay has called for the religious orders which ran schools in which children were sexually abused to be stripped of all assets to pay compensation to abuse victims and…

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‘Europe and the Faith’: a talk by Prof Richard Rex

Professor Richard Rex of Queens’ College, Cambridge, addressed The Iona Institute and the Notre Dame Newman Centre for Faith and…

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