Serious questions have been raised about the standards of childcare in Irish creches and Montessori schools after a report in today’s Irish Independent. The report reveals that parental complaints led to over 100 inquiries by the Health Service Executive (HSE) last year. The HSE, however, refused to reveal the full findings of its inquiries or...
The children of mothers who work full time are less healthy than those whose mothers stay at home, according to new research. Almost two out of three mothers with children under five work in Britain with numbers expected to rise, but an authoritative new study has shown this can affect children’s health. Encouraging mothers to...
The Christian owners of a hotel in Britain are being prosecuted for a crime because they defended their faith and criticised Islam in a debate with a Muslim guest. Police arrested Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, who run the Bounty House Hotel in Liverpool, after a Muslim woman complained that she was offended by comments made...
Two new reports from the Women’s Health Council (WHC) recommends regulation of the Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) industry so as to better protect women’s physical and mental health, and to make the industry more ‘couple-centred’ in its approach. The two reports are called ‘Infertility and its Treatments’. One deals with the effectiveness of the various...
The section of the Civil Partnership Bill dealing with cohabitation between heterosexual couples could be open to challenge because it will impose legal responsibilities on such couples without them even realising it. According to The Irish Times, John Mee, a lecturer in law at UCC, told a Law Society conference at the weekend that a...
The European Commission has been attacked for threatening legal action against a proposed Lithuanian law that, among other things, would ban ‘public information’ aimed at minors and promoting “homosexual, bisexual or polygamous relations.” Critics say the threatened action amounts to unwarranted interference by the European Union in the sovereignty of a member state in the...
Camden Council in the UK has banned a poster from its libraries unless it removes the words ‘Christian’ and ‘God’ from the text. The poster was advertising a talk on climate change. The Council said it could not allow the poster in its present form because it ‘promoted religion’. However, a council press release from...
Britain must end the ‘marriage-penalty’ and ‘poverty trap’ that stop couples on welfare living together, and that penalise them for entering the work-force, according to a new report from UK think tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). The organisation, headed by former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, said if implemented the reforms recommended in...
A leading Constitutional expert who expressed serious reservations about the Charter of Fundamental Rights that is part of the Lisbon treaty has said that the guarantees secured by the Government in June will be effective in ensuring the primacy of our Supreme Court on issues relating to the family and education. Dr Gerard Hogan SC,...
Societies which undermine traditional marriage weaken themselves, Cardinal Sean Brady has said. Speaking at the Annual Grandparents Pilgrimage at Knock on Sunday, the Cardinal paid tribute to the role of grandparents in raising their grandchildren. But he stressed that nothing could “ever replace marriage between a man and a woman as the best environment for...
