Nearly half of Irish women feel that society does not value women who work in the home equally with women who do paid work, according to a new survey. The poll, carried out by Ipsos/MORI on behalf of the Irish Times, found that 43pc of women felt that Irish society valued women who work outside...
A man in Australia who claims to be neither a man nor a woman has been officially recognised by Australian authorities as ‘sexless’ on his birth certificate. Norrie May-Welby, a British expat, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990 when he was 28. However, after becoming unhappy as a woman...
The introduction of divorce may have led to greater female participation in the workforce, a new paper by a leading Irish think tank suggests. The research suggests that women who felt more at risk of marital breakdown may have been more likely to take up full-time work after the introduction of divorce legislation in 1996....
Two parents who educate their children at home were fined €2,000 in court yesterday for not registering them with the State. Monica O’Connor and Eddie O’Neill, Tullow, Co Carlow, have home educated all of their six children. The Constitution protects parents’ right to educate their children at home, but the State requires parents to register...
The Government’s proposed abortion Bill is “totalitarian” because of its failure to adequately protect the right to conscientious objection, the Conference of Religious in Ireland (CORI) has said. It said that the conscience rights of both medical professionals and legislators must be acknowledged by the Government in the drafting of the legislation and in the...
The Government has decided to appeal a High Court ruling which allowed the genetic parents of children born to a surrogate mother to be named on their birth certs. In a statement, the Department of Social Protection expressed concern that the ruling “by linking motherhood exclusively to genetic connection” could affect a large number of...
Ireland’s third level Catholic colleges could disappear under Government proposals unless Church leaders take a stand, according to a leading Catholic academic. Prof. Eamonn Conway, Head of Theology at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, told The Irish Catholic that plans to streamline the country’s higher education sector could signal the end of Catholic colleges. And...
Politicians are obliged to follow their consciences when voting and must disregard the party whip if necessary, moral theologian, Dr John Murray, has said. He was addressing a lunchtime meeting organised today in Buswells hotel by The Iona Institute on the issue of ‘Abortion and Conscience’. The meeting also heard from Dr Donal O’Mathuna,...
The French Government is to introduce a compulsory sex education programme for children aged six and over based on radical “gender theory” ideas. Gender theory teaches that the differences between men and women aren’t natural but are purely the result of historical and social forces. According to Julie Sommaruga, member of the French National Assembly’s...
There has been a further fall in the number of mothers in the home, according to the latest CSO figures. The latest Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) shows there were 480,000 women engaged in home duties in the first quarter of this year, down from 516,000 compared to the first quarter of last year, a...
