George Weigel, author of the best-selling and most authoritative biography of Pope John Paul II, ‘Witness to Hope’, and one of America’s leading public intellectuals, addressed The Iona Institute on the topic ‘Renewing the Church’ in December. Almost 300 peopel were in attendance. The meeting was chaired by Dr Vincent Twomey, former Professor of Moral...
Finola Bruton explains how the very high level of male unemployment in Ireland needs to be studied. Men in Ireland are 70pc more likely than women to be unemployed unlike in other EU countries where unemployment is 50/50.
– Tax individualisation is inherently unfair to single-income couples and discourages one parent from staying at home with their children – Income splitting is fairer because it takes account of the fact that a family is a group of people with common interests rather than a group of individuals who happen to live in the...
– Too little time for parenting and too much daycare is a growing problem for Swedish society – Ninety-two percent of young Swedish children are now in heavily subsidized daycare and the quality of daycare is declining – So are Swedish education standards – Most Swedish parents would prefer to look after their young children...
– Social policies that assume all women want to work are unfair and act against the actual wishes of most women – Such policies are an attempt to promote gender equality but they have never worked, not even in countries like Sweden – Such policies may also be incompatible with quality care for children –...
– Irish social policy assumes all women want to work even when they have children – In fact, most mothers want to spend as much time with their children as possible– Tax individualisation acts counter to the wishes of most Irish mothers Irish social policy has been shaped by a number of myths regarding women...
Professor Roger Trigg discusses the new conflict between interpretations of “human rights” laws and freedom of religion at a conference hosted by the Iona Institute in October 2010. Professor Trigg argues that aggressive secularism is attempting to crowd religion out of the public square on the basis that it sees religion as an enemy of...
